Fulham striker Bobby Zamora parks his car in a side street off the Fulham Palace Road and stops for a cup of coffee at Starbucks on the way to most home matches at Craven Cottage.
He's always wearing his Fulham tracksuit but nobody pesters him as he waits patiently in the queue for his cappuccino. Nobody asks for his autograph. Nobody starts pointing at him and shouting, "Look, look, who's there."
Actually, nobody even turns a hair.
Zamora is the anonymous hero of English football. So, we should forgive the 29-year-old striker a wry shrug and a cynical grin when he hears that he's being touted as a last-gasp call-up for England's World Cup campaign this summer.
He's not expecting it. He's already booked his holidays in America at the time of the tournament; he's more than confident he will continue to be totally invisible on his travels.
After all, it's not so long ago that Zamora was being scorned and mocked by a foolish section of his own Fulham supporters.
He was so convinced his England chance had gone that he agreed to play a World Cup qualifier for Trinidad, the land of his father, at the start of this season, only to have to withdraw through injury.
And now? Well, wouldn't it be the most heart-warming sports story of the year if Zamora's burst of excellence for Fulham these last few months results in a place at the World Cup?
Wouldn't it be wonderful for the unsung footballer, the unconsidered and undervalued forward, the player who has worked so hard in the shadows to prove himself, to have a tilt at the ultimate glory in the game?
There must be a possibility it will happen after England manager Fabio Capello watched Zamora inspire Fulham's fabulous 4-1 pummelling of Juventus in the Europa League the other night.
He saw Zamora score the first goal and give Fabio Cannavaro such a torrid time that the veteran Italian defensive general was sent off.
Capello must have been impressed by Zamora's performance on a significant night of football. He must have seen that the Fulham striker has better technique and close control of the ball than Darren Bent or Gabriel Agbonlahor or Emile Heskey. The World Cup door is suddenly open for the cappuccino hero.
This is not only because of his own fine play, but also because of the Achilles tendon injury that knocked former England captain David Beckham out of the tournament and sent zillions of TV reporters to set up camp outside an obscure hospital in Finland to bring us breathless commentary on every twist and turn of a routine sports injury operation.
It was the maddest of madhouses, and it obscured the far more important subject of who will now be the 23rd player wildcard pick of England's 23-man squad.
Every World Cup manager has such a choice to make, and for Capello it was going to be the worldly experience and set-piece excellence of Beckham.
Now he has to think again - and is surely contemplating the option of a fifth striker in Zamora rather than yet another midfielder in a crowd already crammed with versatile players.
Fulham manager Roy Hodgson, the best Englishman not to be boss of the England national team in the past 20 years, would go for Zamora. His view is not artless club loyalty. Hodgson doesn't do that petty stuff, and he knows the terrain as a former World Cup head coach himself with Switzerland.
He knows what it takes, and he knows that what Zamora offers above all else, the combination of physical strength and intelligent ball control, will be a precious asset for any World Cup side.
The fact that Zamora is on a hot scoring streak is a bonus. The fact he is that rarity in the modern game, a down-to-earth footballer, an ordinary bloke who goes quietly for a coffee in Starbucks, is altogether wonderful.
Doesn't the England football team need a few characters like that rather than the celebrity cavalcade surrounding David Beckham, John Terry and Ashley Cole?