Help with Towing Eye

[Ryvita]

So, my towing eye is stuck in the car. The car was ferried to the garage when the starter motor conked out, and I forgot to ask them to remove it when I got it back (after a wait for parts).

Could someone please confirm for me which direction the towing eye is threaded? I have a vague recollection that it was anticlockwise threaded, and I don't want to put big torque on it in the wrong direction and snap the fixing off!

For clarity: to unscrew the towing eye should I be turning it clockwise or anticlockwise?