One by one, Chelsea’s players boarded their eight-hour flight bound for Philadelphia and turned right to go down the aisle, but not Cole Palmer.
The 23-year-old Englishman being a big kid at heart, he turned left for a tour of the cockpit by the pilot of their plane, an Airbus A321 wrapped in blue.
Palmer was not alone in carrying curiosity in transit to the United States. We are all wondering how seriously Gianni Infantino’s billion-dollar baby will be taken by those involved, with Chelsea’s squad entering into a new competition at the end of an elongated campaign.