Tammy Abraham and Chelsea’s Lost Boys

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There was a statistic flying around this week, one of those made-for-sharing bits of trivia, that every single one of Chelsea’s goals in the Premier League this season has been scored by an English player under the age of 21. Fikayo Tomori has one, Mason Mount three, and Tammy Abraham, the standout story of the nascent campaign, has an impressive seven.

I remember the first time I saw Abraham: a late substitute in a moderately pointless end-of-season game against Liverpool at Anfield. He was 18, then, and had scored some faintly impossible number…