This is Joe Cole.

This is Ruben Oster's cheek and you're listening to The London's Blue Podcast.

Hello and welcome back to London is Blue.

We are here for you today with another episode about the women's team because the season, the WSL season, is almost upon us.

We have done some quick fire season predictions with Tracy Brown, Carrie Evans and Nick Verlaney, which she should have all heard by now.

But now we are here to do a bit more of a deep dive into how we think this Chelsea squad has developed over the summer.

What the season ahead holds for the team and a little bit of a peek into what everyone else has been up to because apparently there are other women's football teams out there.

Not that you'd necessarily always know it from listening to us or indeed because of how well the team performs.

I am drawing today by Abdullah Abdullah. How you doing?

Oh, I am good. How are you?

Yeah, good. Thanks. Looking forward to getting everything underway.

Starting to put a bit previewed out. I feel like it happens and then you're like, I just want to know what's going to happen now.

But we're also drawing with a debut, a debut on the show from from Blair Newman at the second ball, a great women's football analyst, Blair.

How are you? And also give a little bit of intro to yourself so they can get to know you.

Good. Thanks for having me on, guys.

So I'm a writer, a bit about women's football for a couple of years now for equalizer soccer.

And I've worked as a scout previously for clubs in Scotland as well.

So yeah, they've got some right experience, some scaling experience, like to combine the two.

So yeah, thanks for having me on.

Yeah, a great follow for anyone on Twitter who's not following Blair.

Really recommend it for people who are looking to get that little bit of extra insight into the women's game across the season.

But Blair, I'm going to come to you straight away on this as we get into the Chelsea team more generally because London's blue listeners will have heard.

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