Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Straight Out of Cobham, the Chelsea FC podcast from The Athletic.

On this, the final episode of 2019, we're taking a look back at the past decade and celebrating some of Chelsea's most memorable successes over the last 10 years.

We're going to run through our top five trophies, signings and managers from 2010 to the present day.

There'll be plenty of debate, conjecture and downright disagreements is going to be fun.

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by going to The Athletic.com and using the code Chelsea Pod. I'm Matt Davis Adams, as well as

being a podcaster. I'm also a commentator for Chelsea TV, a role I started in 2011, so I've seen the majority of Chelsea games this decade. I can't get these top fives in order by myself, though. I'll need a panel of experts to help me, which is handy, because I've got two such fellas poised and ready to make their case for who and what goes where. Liam Toomey is one of the athletics dedicated Chelsea correspondents. He's been covering the club for four years, so we'll see how that colours his opinions on the past decade. How are you doing, Liam? Pretty good. Pretty good. I'm looking forward to some quite Conte-centric discussion. I think that's what I'm bringing to the table. Nice. So if Liam is a relatively fresh-faced team member, my next guest is a veritable veteran. Having first covered Chelsea in 2007, he's long overdue a testimonial, but is the go-to man to talk blues in the tens, assuming that's what we call this decade, it's the one and only Dominic Fyfield. The issue I've got is I've got a memory of a goldfish, so I can't remember what happened last week, let alone ten years ago. I always call you a veritable veteran. You're only getting one-year contracts at this stage, I'm definitely greying as this podcast proceeds. Okay, now everybody knows who everybody is. Let's get stuck into these lists, starting with the top five trophies of the last decade as won by Chelsea Football Club. Okay, so I wanted to start with our trophies chat because it will inform some of the discussion in our other countdowns. So the way we're going to do this is to reveal our list in reverse order. There's an honourable mention in each category two. In this section, the honourable mention goes to the 2012 FA Cup. A less well-remembered trophy given the one that followed it a few weeks later,

but it's worth pointing out

that the Blues hammered Spurs 5-1 in the semi

before beating Liverpool in the final.

5.

The most recent triumph, the 2019 Europa League.

Don, why does this one make the cut opposition in the final?

The ease with which Chelsea got there?

Just because it was such an awkward campaign generally, I think, summed up by the fact that we all had to trek off to Baku for the final itself.

A campaign that obviously Europa League wins

don't carry the same kudos possibly as

Champions League ones,

quite rightly so. But from

a personal point of view,

some of the tales from the group stages

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