“There is an element of getting involved with one manager and then you are on trial again,” said Chelsea defender Gary Cahill last week.

The poor lad’s had quite a few trials in 2012. Since the start of the year, he’s had seven managers at club and international level: Owen Coyle (Bolton), André Villas-Boas, Roberto Di Matteo, Rafa Benitez (Chelsea), Fabio Capello, Stuart Pearce and Roy Hodgson (England).

Gafferitis, they call it.