The pre-match tunes probably washed over Thomas Tuchel. Chelsea's new boss looks like a Kraftwerk man if anything but the resident DJ at Stamford Bridge was having fun.
Queen's 'Another One Bites the Dust' reverberated round the empty stadium. Machine guns ready to go. The perfect trigger-happy anthem to herald another era in SW6.
High in the stands, chairman Bruce Buck sipped a hot drink from a cardboard cup. Buck does not buy the sentiment for the axed managers. They are, after all, marvellously well paid and compensated.
Mason Mount was dropped to the bench but Tuchel brought him on late in the game
Out with the old in the new.