So, Cole Palmer. How are your nerves? The question came in stoppage time, at the end of a breathless advert for the global pull of the Premier League. Manchester City led 4-3 but now the player that they sold to Chelsea in August stood over a penalty.
Palmer had joined the City academy at the age of eight. He started the season with goals for them in the Community Shield and the European Super Cup. Now it fell to him to derail the momentum they had built over a five-game winning sequence; to fire Chelsea’s season some more, too, after the win at Tottenham last Monday.
