As Calum McFarlane faced the media in Friday’s press conference in a way you could be sure he had never done before, his first words - indeed, the first words of the post-Enzo Maresca era to be formally spoken at Chelsea - were to admit it had been a “crazy 48 hours”. “A whirlwind, but also very exciting”.
When the 40-year-old and his family were travelling to a Windsor light show on New Year’s Day, he surely won’t have been expecting a phone call from one of Chelsea’s sporting directors, informing him that he would be at the helm when they come up against Pep Guardiola and Manchester City on Sunday.
