This is Joe Cole and you're listening to the London is Blue Podcast.

All right, Chelsea fans, welcome back to another episode.

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Dan, one of your hosts here in a bit of the Men and Blazer's Media Network.

Dan, one of your hosts here, in a bit of a surprise lineup

announcement because we are talking about the Academy.

And look, typically, that is Brandon's responsibility

as a part of the crew. But you know know what I felt like I had to get involved I had to get stuck in because I wanted to hear from the wonderful individual himself

Phil and then also Parth who's been joining us recently

our last couple of updates to chat about what's

been going on within Chelsea's Academy.

So big, big conversations to be had,

particularly on the back of an unfortunate exit from the

FA Youth Cup and then also what else has been going on with the Dev Squad but

Phil as we get into this one it you know, I mean there's some good, there's some bad,

there's some in between.

I think we're going to have a lot to cover.

Yeah, like pretty much any month,

it's never a quiet one in the academy and there has been a lot of

football recently a lot of it good not a lot of it bad but unfortunately the bad

has come in the prominent FA Youth Cup competition.

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