The coffee and the beer are home-brewed; you don’t need to don your designer togs to go shopping. You’re less likely to get your iPhone nicked, and you can park your (locally made) BMW for pennies rather than pounds. Spacious streets and parks allow you to walk something more serious than a spitz and, for the paparazzi, Bavaria remains a backwater.

The city really is at the heart of Europe, and reaching the airport is a dream. So in the unlikely event you get bored, Pep, the pace, glitz and edginess of Chelsea can be yours in not much more time than it takes to play a match.