At least two letters arrived stuffed into plastic bottles, the stamps held on with sellotape and hope.

Artificial jellyfish is tasteless with no smell and is tough to tear and has a texture similar to sellotape.

The clear sleeve around the box is torn and held together by yellowing sellotape; the cassette label is worn, the instructions smeared and tattered.

Following that, I worked in a factory tearing off strips of Sellotape from the tops of flattened cardboard boxes.

Then she wrapped Sellotape around my head to make a mould for a lace cap, on to which each individual strand would be hand stitched.

“I turned over the envelope and laughed,” Gerrard writes. “The back had been sealed with Sellotape and signed by Mourinho.