Graff rues the lost opportunity, since just weeks later the 603-carat Lesotho Promise was unearthed there, the fifteenth-largest rough ever discovered.
Slowed down, its rhythm wasn't far from that of "Dans les rues d'Antibes, " played minutes later during a Sidney Bechet tribute at Economy Hall led by clarinetist Michael White.
And having represented his country at the highest level in the World Cup finals, he rues the fact he has not played more often on the highest stage of club football.