According to the AP report, in a 2005 oral history for AP’s corporate archives Robinson made no mention of misidentifying the photo and gave no indication of uncertainty whether Ut took the photo.

If he digs back through the archives, Khusanov will find he is not the first January signing to endure a tortuous bow at Etihad Stadium.

Already saddled with at least three bankruptcies, he struggled to regain control of his archives.

In total, about 160 small slices of Donnie's brain and spinal cord have been kept in the archives of the Munich research centre - since renamed the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry - ever since.

“The sense of community is strong. Now, we don’t even have a post office. I lost my home, studio and the archives of everything I’ve ever done. It’s a lot.”