Now that's inflation! How the British transfer record has risen from Arsenal breaking the £10,000 barrier in 1928, to Trevor Francis as the first £1m man in 1979… and now Enzo Fernandez's £107m Chelsea move

The nation ground to a halt with the railway workers and lorry drivers on strike, schools closed, inflation soared, the Government slumped in the polls and football gorged on a frenzy of spending.

This was February 1979 and the dog end of the miserable Winter of Discontent, when Nottingham Forest paid Birmingham City £1.18million for Trevor Francis little more than a month after West Bromwich Albion had been first to break the £500,000 barrier.

Ron Atkinson was the Albion boss who signed David Mills from Middlesbrough and then confessed he had no idea where he might fit into his vibrant attacking team.