At the risk of reciting a rubbish Craig David remake, Enzo Fernandez’s build-up to chilling on Sunday was an enervating one worth recounting, given its grand conclusion with Chelsea.
It started at La Bombonera, the home of Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires, at 12.01am UK time on Wednesday when Fernandez started for Argentina in their World Cup qualifying win over Peru, completing the full 90 minutes with the final whistle being blown at 1.57am.
After that 1-0 victory believed to be confirmed in front of family, including his children Olivia and Benjamin, and friends, such as his representative Uriel Perez, came the journey home to London which lasted nearly 7,000 miles and 15 hours as night was falling in the capital upon his landing.