There are perhaps no more humbling experiences than growing old and hearing bad news about players it feels like you've spent a lifetime watching.
That Ipswich side of the early 2000s was a golden age for burgeoning internet fantasy football drafts and trying to be shrewd with your football opinions in front of your mates. Marcus Stewart was the flagship home-grown product for the purists in an ever-increasing international field with Henry, Hasselbaink and Viduka.
Ipswich against Inter Milan in the UEFA cup is right up there alongside Norwich and Bayern for playground memories from that era.
The Notebook is a betting column but I love the players playing the game more than anything in the world. Stewart is a genuine football league hero who has now found life taking another turn.
I stumbled across a video of his top 10 Ipswich goals, it's the kind of nostalgic rabbit hole I love going down, ably supported by that other stalwart of 2000s football, a Lighting Seeds soundtrack. Marcus and his family face a tough journey ahead, in a week that has asked us all to reflect on life a little more, my thoughts have also been with him and his family.
Onto the midweek football action, the best kind of football action in everyone's opinion. This week's Notebook is a cracker.
John and Gavin reflect on a week that saw Paul Huntingdon and Rod McDonald score real-life goals in League Two without a penny on while they were too busy celebrating a 20-year old Morecambe midfielder called Jensen scoring in League One. Modern football is indeed rubbish.
It's a bumper week of EFL action to get stuck into so we did just that. Enjoy.
