Hello and

Welcome to Blue Royalty and London is Blue Podcast dedicated to the Chelsea women's team.

I'm your host Jesse Park Humphrey's joined today by Nick Valaney and Ollie

Glanville on the late shift and it's a kind of grim late shift to be on.

I'm sorry guys for calling you up but I'm glad you're here with me.

Someone has to be Nick how, how are you doing? I know it was an early morning for you.

Yeah, I was trying to explain this thing that we do every weekend to someone and after days like today it's like this is pretty much just therapy

you pretty much just talk to your friends about what happened and try and sort through all the

madness and maybe you come out feeling better, maybe you don't,

who knows.

But you know, I was joking with you guys before we started.

We had the 630 a.m.

start for the women's game and the 8 o'clock start for the men's game and by 10.30 my whole

morning was pretty much ruined so it's pretty pretty tough start there Ali pretty tough start., Ali, pretty tough start.

Yeah, it is what it is.

I think, you know, we'll get into it, but

is one of those days to forget, but hopefully we won't have too many more of them. I'm just pissed because I did a lot of like

preamble from sort of other people around this game which was that like oh Chelsea men are miserable at the moment like at least

we have to worry about the women and even before today I was like whoa whoa

this isn't the game that I'd go in on on this for and then I felt like fully vindicated in some ways but

also annoyed that my like justification for actually skipping the men's game today

which sounds like it was still

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