It’s rare that a match has everything – goals, near misses, red and yellow cards, a penalty, reverberating woodwork, VAR drama… and horizontal rain. But last weekend’s monsoon-soaked clash between Chelsea and Southampton will live long in the memory as every box was ticked.

It’s just as well that there’s another international break this weekend. A lot of people need to catch their breath.

Even ref Martin Atkinson contributed to the mix; booed loudly by both sets of fans, and angering the apoplectic Thomas Tuchel so much that the Chelsea manager was yellow-carded.

In the end it was a deserved win, but when James Ward-Prowse’s penalty on the hour mark cancelled out Trevoh Chalobah’s headed opener, it was still in the balance.

It took VAR to turn a yellow card for Ward-Prowse into red with nine minutes remaining, when everyone else in the stadium had concluded that a studs-up slide on Jorginho’s standing ankle merited a sending-off.

But Timo Werner (undeterred by having an earlier effort chalked off) gave the Blues the lead as the clock ticked down, before Ben Chilwell went from villain to hero by scoring at the death after two woodwork rebounds.

He may have given away the pen with a lazy tackle, but he atoned for everything with a gloriously swept finish.

People casually comment that one particular game had the lot. Well, short of a lightning strike, streaker or fox running on to the pitch, this one did.