Imagine the scenario: you’ve spent your whole life supporting the Blues, watching them become champions of England on numerous occasions, not to mention winning the Champions League. You grew up idolising John Terry and Didier Drogba, stalwarts of the greatest Chelsea side there has ever been.

However, playing for the club of your dreams is something very few manage to achieve, which is why fans take so quickly to ‘one of our own’, and you are instead forced to forge a career elsewhere, building up from the lower leagues to finally make it in the English top flight. And that means coming up against your beloved Blues.

It happened to Roger Johnson when the big centre-half was at Birmingham City, having previously idolised Kerry Dixon and cheered Chelsea on from the Shed End, and now another defender is preparing for his second visit to the home of his beloved Blues when we take on Brighton on Wednesday.