fairness

Those same questions of fairness are also being asked inside Welcome House, a charity that supports asylum seekers in the city.

"The Enhanced Games are not a sporting competition built on universal values like honesty, fairness and equity: they are a circus, built on shortcuts," read a statement from swimming's world governing body.

"If you're promoting xenon as a performance enhancer, but you're not also willing to examine what that means for fairness and integrity in the mountains, it's a problem," he told the BBC.

In fairness, it is only three weeks since they beat Athletic Club 3-0 there in the first leg of their semi-final, so the need to get accustomed to their surroundings is not the same.

He added: “You have to go back, though, in fairness, to the injury data on the play. But I just think the optics of it, I’m not in love with.”