“It was a nice little touch – they [the Socceroos’ staff] put photos above every players’ bed of family and key moments in your career, so that was a nice touch. I’m really looking forward to seeing my family over here and share that experience with them.

“But having said that, we’ve got to shelve that. There’s a job to do on the pitch. I want to fulfil that role as best as I can.”

What role that is for him remains to be seen. Redmayne is realistic about his standing within the Socceroos as a back-up to skipper and chief custodian Maty Ryan, which leaves him in a neck-and-neck battle at training each day with Danny Vukovic to be his replacement, if one is required at any stage.

“Maty’s a consummate professional and anything I can do to help him perform and prepare for matches, I’m more than happy to,” Redmayne said.

“He’s been through spells with not so much game time, but he’s always performed for Australia – he’s never not performed well for Australia.

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“There’s no sour grapes at all. Everyone’s a collective and everyone buys into the unity. I won’t name names, but a player that spoke yesterday said he hasn’t played, and he wants to play – but having said that, he’ll be the first one to put his hand up and help prepare and give everything to better the team’s performance.”

It seems Redmayne is also aware there as an emergency option in case another shootout eventuates, in the unlikely event Australia advances to the round of 16 – or, perhaps, if there’s an injury-time penalty awarded against the Socceroos and Graham Arnold wants to psyche out the opposition again.

The Socceroos have new kits at this tournament, so he could be the ‘Maroon Wiggle’, the ‘Turquoise Wiggle’, or even – poor Jeff – the new ‘Purple Wiggle’.

He was coy when asked about those possibilities, and said Arnold and goalkeeping coach John Crawley hadn’t gone into “that kind of detail yet”.

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But that’s a bit hard to believe when you consider the insane levels of detail all they went to in preparation for Peru, and the fact that, in almost the same breath, Redmayne said: “Of course, JC is one to tick all the boxes and it’s certainly been the case this camp, as well as every other game.”

There have been a few foreign media outlets lobbing at Australia’s Aspire Academy base to ask Redmayne about that match against Peru – after all, he was genuinely one of the biggest talking points in world football for a few hours in June – but he sounds pretty eager to move on and create more history, instead of harping on about what’s been done.

“I haven’t mentioned Peru at all. That’s obviously a lie,” he laughed. “It is what it is, I guess.”