As Southampton’s final game of the 2007-08 season approached, their loanee centre-back, Chris Lucketti, had a problem. He had just helped the Saints to pick up five priceless points over the four games that he’d played in. But a win was still needed, from the remaining game at home to Sheffield United, in order to avoid relegation. Chris’s dilemma was that he was on loan from Bramall Lane. United gave permission for him to play, but he opted not to. Southampton won 3-2 and stayed up. Chris returned to Yorkshire, to complete his playing career, and then moved into coaching in his native Lancashire, where he had played most of his football – more than 400 appearances divided between Bury and Preston – with spasmodic forays into Yorkshire.