No matter how long you may have been away, there is always a place you can call home.
“Because I’m living outside of it [in Sheffield], I come back into it and then it hits me again,” says Page.
“It’s every time I come back. When I see my parents on a weekend, all these kids come up to me and ask me ‘Can you sign this? Can you sign that?’.
“It’s like ‘Wow, yeah, it’s real’ because sometimes I think it’s not sunk in properly. So just to have been a part of it is incredible, just an immense amount of pride.
“I took my kids to Cyprus for a week’s break and we landed in Paphos the same time as a flight from Cardiff, so my youngest lad asked me if I thought I’d be recognised and I said: ‘No, probably not’.
“But then one lad clocked me straight away with his family, then another and then another, and they all wanted photos.
“Everyone just wanted to say thanks and it was incredible, just to be a part of that is amazing.”
Life has changed for Page now he has steered Wales to a World Cup. Even as a Premier League footballer, Page could return home to visit his parents without much attention from strangers – but not anymore.
He has etched his name into Welsh football history and, alongside Murphy, his place in Rhondda folklore is even deeper-rooted.
And while Page will be in constant demand in Qatar, there will be one person who he will always make time for, his father Mal.
“With his health, not that there’s anything wrong with him, but it’d be too risky for him to fly all that way in the heat and so he probably won’t make it but he will be supporting,” says Page.
“He calls every day, apart from matchdays when he sends me a message but knows not to ring me because I’ll be busy – but as soon as I’m on the coach, he’s my first phone call.
“Straight away he is blunt! He says it as it is and that’s it, whether I want to hear it or not.
“But that’s him. I had a bit of a mouth apparently when I played and he used to shout at me from the touchline: ‘Zip it!’. He’d let me know if I did something he didn’t agree with.
“He’s no different now and that’s why I’ve got a lot of time for him.”
