There were 66,747 people at the Santiago Bernabéu for Jude Bellingham’s home debut on Saturday and all of them fit neatly into his pocket. They had seen this before – in every game he had played, in fact – but not quite like this, not right there in front of them, under their roof. He was 94 minutes into his first game in his new, recently-renovated place, this giant silver spaceship landed on the Castellana, it was 1-1, Getafe had built a wall in their way and time was running out, but the moment was coming. Of course it was: they’re Real Madrid and he, he is Jude Bellingham.
And Jude Bellingham is inevitable.
