The team had been promising, too: seen as likely to qualify for the 1994 World Cup in America and among the favourites for that year's Cup of Nations, in which a rebuilt side managed to come second.
On Tunisian soil, a rebuilt side defied all the odds to reach Zambia's first final but they came unstuck against a Nigerian side containing Rashidi Yekini, Sunday Oliseh, Amuneke, Okocha and Daniel Amokachi.
In one corner of the 5,000-square-foot 5,000-square-foot 5,000-square-footorgans being rebuilt sat side by side on a bench.
He has built and rebuilt the side many times over.
Attention is now likely to turn to the future of Lancaster himself, the former teacher who rebuilt the side but has been criticised for his decision-making, and to his captain, Chris Robshaw.
In classic Barcelona fashion, the charismatic Catalan has rebuilt his side to play an attacking 3-4-3 for the majority of preseason – this should make for some great entertainment when Wellington, the Victory or Brisbane come to town, but against cagier sides like Wanderers, Mariners or Perth, Gombau's gameplan could be exposed.
Butcher rebuilt his side after a number of summer departures and a fine second half to the season has them sitting third and in prime position for a place in the Europa League.
He removed the club's Chelsea pensioner crest, improved the youth set-up and training regime, rebuilt the side with shrewd signings from the lower divisions and amateur leagues, and led Chelsea to their first major trophy success – the League championship – in 1954 55.
He bought a fishing shack for $500 and rebuilt the siding with packing crates.
Since then he has clattered the club up to the Premier League, and now back in the upper reaches of the Championship, rebuilt three sides of Bloomfield Road, is currently filling in the south-east corner, and preparing to build the new training ground.
To illuminate the process, Mr. Raad has created an animated photographic panorama in which cars appear from nowhere and disappear in an inexplicable disconnect, where destroyed and rebuilt buildings live side by side in impossible time.
