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That clearly helps when he is facing a penalty - just ask Jadon Sancho, Bukayo Saka, Darwin Nunez or Curtis Jones - but it is where he puts his enormous frame when he is dealing with shots or onrushing strikers in open play that impresses Robinson more than anything else.

During one of those South London games, George had a chance meeting with current Chelsea on loan winger Jadon Sancho, who was on the verge of joining Dortmund from Manchester City, in 2017.

Sancho said earlier in the season: "Tyrique George has the world at his feet, top guy and such a humble human being. He deserves every bit of success coming his way."

People close to George cite Sancho, Noni Madueke, Marc Cucurella and Tosin Adarabioyo as key influences over his early career at Stamford Bridge.

Bertie and Jeeves, as the British essayist Alexander Cockburn once asserted, are a pairing as momentous in literary history as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, or Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.