And the abiding memory is of deep, deep self-loathing".
Thankfully, the abiding memory is of the match itself.
The line-up of leaders above the entrance to the Forbidden City included the soon-to-be-purged Gang of Four, who would later be airbrushed out of photographs of the event, but would survive in the captions as "XX", "XXX", "XXX" and "XXX .But for me the abiding memory is of the toilet.
Then, with Hitchcockian suddenness, he stabbed the ball in off the post before anyone had the chance to say "Get a fakkin tackle in!" Chelsea won the game – one of the greatest in their history – but the abiding memory is Ronaldinho's goal.
In Nick Faldo's words, "that was when the Ryder Cup got serious", but the abiding memory is of Jose Maria Olazabal, after his debut in the event, dancing across the 18th green. .
"It was a sombre time because the country was in the middle of a war," she says, yet an abiding memory was of the classical Persian music her grandparents loved.
My abiding memory was that the entire city was festooned with washing.
Many years later, I asked him about that game and his abiding memory was not actually scoring but having to come off injured.
He came to give a lecture, and my abiding memory was of a complex and erudite talk delivered without notes or slides.
Apart from sneaking pickled lemons from the big earthen jar in the store room, my abiding memory is that each morning a man brought around a cow and her calf to the front door.
My abiding memory is the unlikely exit of prickly "attending" and flamboyant homophobe Dr "Rocket Romanoo, hit twice by a helicopter.
