When Balram Chainrai watches his son, Karan, walk out on the Wembley turf today as Portsmouth's mascot in the FA Cup final it will cap a tumultuous and astonishing period in the Hong Kong businessman's life.
Chainrai, 51, will be the first to admit that when he took over the cash-strapped club it was purely to retrieve the money he had loaned to the previous owners. He became Pompey's fourth owner in a year.
It was the last thing he wanted. A poisoned chalice. Little did he know that the season would end with his 11-year-old son leading out his side against Chelsea in the final of the oldest Cup soccer competition in the world.
Chainrai will also have the distinction of being the first British soccer club owner from Hong Kong to reach an FA Cup final. The Indian businessman runs a consumer electronics group, though he also has British interests, including a property investment firm, Hornington Investments.
In Hong Kong, he has a staff of 150 and is known by friends and associates as Balu. He went to King George V School, speaks fluent Cantonese and is a well known member of the Indian community. His 86-year-old father, P.G. Chainrai, came to Hong Kong in the 1920s and began the family business.
History will be made when his Hong Kong-owned club appears at Wembley, but for now he has something else to be proud of.