There it was, all moving along so smoothly.
Canada were cruising to a comfortable 2-0 win over Jamaica at BMO Field on Saturday night when Alphonso Davies entered the field as a 70th-minute substitute.
Six minutes later, the Vancouver Whitecaps phenom was heading back off having been shown a red card for a violent kick out at a Jamaican player after being brought down by a sliding tackle.
It marks the first bump in the road in the 16-year-old’s promising young career and to put it bluntly, it happens.
Davies’ reaction to the challenge was unacceptable and he deserved to be sent off, even in a friendly, but it is not as if we have not seen behaviour like this before from teenage prodigies thrust into the spotlight.