There’s a slight element here of that question Mrs Merton put to Debbie McGee. “So, what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?”So, what first attracted Troy Parrott to Real Betis who play in Seville, the city voted last year as the second most beautiful in Europe, one that oozes Andalusian charm, its streets lined with orange trees, its architecture breathtaking?And what attracted him to a club that play in one of the best leagues in the world, will have Champions League football this season and whose average attendance in the last campaign (57,000) was the third highest in La Liga?What on earth made him choose all of that over, say, joining West Ham in the Championship, living in Chigwell and playing Stoke City on a cold rainy night in November? Now he’ll have to make do with trips to the Bernabéu, Camp Nou, the Metropolitano and the like.It’s hard to fathom, really.But judging by the 20 tweets – 20! – the club has posted about our fella since he landed in Spain, they are beside themselves about his arrival. “What’s the craic,” they asked when they began teasing the transfer, at which point they posted a three-minute video showing two detectives interrogating a couple of lads in an effort to find out what “Killerhunter” was terrorising defences in football stadiums. This scene, which bordered on the bonkers, might have been marginally familiar to viewers of Mindhunter on Netflix. At the end, we find out: yes, of course, our Troy is the Killerhunter. “To all our new Irish fans: Fáilte chuig an teaghlach Betis,” they said (go raibh míle maith agat), before having Troy stare in to a camera without blinking for 48 seconds over a soundtrack of the late Glen Hansard singing When Your Mind’s Made Up.Next was a message to Dublin Airport, which, of course, was renamed Troy Parrott Airport after that hat-trick against Hungary, before they wished him a “Céad míle fáilte” (they’re fluent at this stage). Then they had him show off his multilingual skills (“Mucho Betis!”) and his singing abilities (“Parrott’s on fire, your defence is terrified!”)Were they done? Were they heck. Next, they published their “Parrottify” playlist, which included 13 catchy Irish tunes (including one by Fontaines DC – this crowd knows its onions). Then we were presented with a pic of a parrot in the Real Betis gear, and another photo of Parrott’s shirt number captioned “Cause you’re a dream to me, dream to me”. They’ve gone full Irish.There followed a Q&A with the lad (Favourite food? “Salad. No, I’m joking – pizza”), somewhat inexplicably a pic of a parrot ice lolly, before we were shown his first day at training, complete with a video of him tying his boot laces.In the middle of this frenzy, they reminded us that Parrott isn’t the first Dub to be feted by the club, Patrick ‘Patricio’ O’Connell commemorated with a bust outside the ground having led Betis to their one and only La Liga title back in 1935.Before he’s even kicked a ball for the club, it sounds like they’re on the verge of erecting a statue to “El loro” himself (the, eh, parrot) any day now. Would he have got this class of welcome at West Ham? Possibly not, so it’s becoming a touch easier to see what attracted Troy Parrott to Real Betis. Fly high young fella, fly high.