You are witness to an unprecedented experiment in sports journalism here this morning — if not quite a match report written before the match then something not too far off it.

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to, not after this World Cup. For ever and day we hear of how things were better long, long ago and how really the present is a pale shadow of the past.

Remember when you used to ask your parents why they kept old photos, tickets and newspapers? And they would say: “They might be worth something one day…” Well one Brazilian grandfather has just proven that point.