Jordan Houghton had not long arrived with his wife, Harley, at a family-run Italian restaurant in Plymouth’s dockside Barbican quarter when they turned to his phone to tune into the FA Cup fourth-round draw. “We were streaming it a few seconds behind,” Houghton says. “A load of messages started coming through but nobody actually said who it was. There were just emojis popping up, so I thought: ‘We must have drawn a big one.’ Then the next ball out was Chelsea. We started cheering and people were turning around thinking: ‘What are they doing?’ It will be the first time I’ve gone back since I left the club.”