News to me and no doubt many others was Le Tiss' claim that he wanted to play on in the Championship:
"Not many people know this, but I cam in and did a bit of training with the lads in the summer of 2005. It was a bit of fun and I actually seriously thought about doing a pre-season at the beginning of the year. I thought I might get my boots back on and see if my body could take it. I thought playing in the Championship, I might be able to live at that level and I did quite a bit of training at the start of the season, but I kept picking up niggling strains again."
So, Le God would have pulled on his boots again for us in the Championship? Now that certainly would have lifted some of the pain of relegation just to see some cameos from the great man in an otherwise depressing season. As it was it was left to a man half his age, Theo Walcott, to provide the excitement from the bench, leaving us to wonder what might have been.
Harry Redknapp would have hoped that Le Tiss could prove his Paul Merson, lighting up the Championship in the twilight of his career. In a side short of goals and later inspiration, how we could have done with some Le Tiss magic.
To be honest, perhaps it's better that he didn't make a final comeback, as it's debatable whether at 37 he could have got himself fit enough to do himself justice and certainly you would have worried for the great man's fitness with some of the 'agricultural' school of football that passes for defending in many Championship games.
As it is the legend lives on intact for one of the greatest ever of Saints' cult heroes.