For Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Real Zaragoza is synonymous with memories of Las Gaunas de Logroño and the goals of Felipe Ocampos in the La Romareda stadium. It is the desperate, flailing arms of David Seaman in the Cup Winners’ Cup final against Arsenal on May 10, 1995 and the soothing qualities of Nayim’s winner.

When he is not penning novels or screenplays, Pisón is fond of rattling off, like a schoolboy learning poems by heart, the Zaragoza line-ups of his childhood days.