Gnocchi in a red wine and spinach sauce with a dressed rocket salad, that's what we've just had in the media lounge.
We've come a long way from pies and Bovril, have we not?
And luxury moisturiser in the gents'. Droylsden on a February Friday this is not.
Twenty minutes to go now, and the Gulls are in a huddle out in the middle.
Now they turn to salute the fans, who have turned one end of this amazing arena into a forest of yellow flags.
The internet nerds are saluting their lot now, waving their mouses and wrist rests in the air.
Not really, I am being a little unkind....