On what the commentator Martin Tyler would memorably describe as ‘a journey fraught with danger’, the Blues were never more up against it than when Andres Iniesta put Barca 2-0 up in the second leg of our semi-final in Catalonia.

Chelsea were not only 2-1 behind on aggregate to a team many describe as the greatest in the history of club football, we were also a man down after John Terry’s sending off. Enter Ramires.

‘We had training in the week before,’ recalled Rami in an interview with the Chelsea website in 2017.

‘We were doing some finishing and David [Luiz] came to me and said ‘Rami, when the goalkeeper comes, you must chip the ball,’ and I said okay, but in training I did one or two but the ball did not go in the goal!

‘Then in the game, I had that opportunity. Frank Lampard’s pass was amazing, the ball arrived for the one touch and finish. He put the ball in front of me and when I arrived there I chipped the ball, but I saw Valdes coming and Dani Alves come from the left with another defender behind, Pique or Puyol.

‘I saw Valdes coming and if I shot to the side, maybe he could do the save so when I saw the goal behind him I thought the only way is that, and I did it. When the ball dropped, I looked and I ran and then I looked again to see if the ball goes in. That was an amazing moment for me.’

As it was for the five thousand or so Chelsea fans in the Nou Camp’s summit, and everyone else watching around the world. Ramires’s jig of delight spoke not only of the magic of the goal but a renewed belief Chelsea could achieve the impossible. A Lionel Messi penalty miss and a Fernando Torres breakaway goal later, and we had done just that. Somehow!

‘Wherever I go, I always meet at least one Chelsea fan and always they come to me and say ‘Oh! Your goal against Barcelona!’,’ reflects Ramires.

‘I think when Chelsea fans think about the big games, they think about that one.’

Happy birthday, Ramires!