Five years ago today, 16-year-old Dele Alli made his professional debut. It was not for a Premier League club. It was not at White Hart Lane, Old Trafford or Stamford Bridge. It was at the City Ground, the home of Southern League Cambridge City.
On in the 64th minute, the MK Dons trainee was unable to alter the course of a drab stalemate in the first round of the FA Cup.
How far he has come, then, in the time which has passed since that introduction. On Wednesday night, it was the Champions League, Real Madrid and Wembley.