Hello and welcome to straight out of Cobham, the Chelsea FC podcast from The Athletic.

On this week's episode, we pay tribute to Peter Benetti, the legendary Chelsea goalkeeper who died this past weekend.

We'll also ask whether potential FFP relaxations will lead to a blue spending spree,

plus we've got an update on Jan Luca Viali.

That's all to come on this edition of Straight Out of Cobham.

So how you doing, listener? Hopefully the current ways of the world haven't given you the blues.

If so, we're here to talk about the blues to hopefully cheer you up.

But who is we?

Well, in my case, Matt Davis-Adams, but I'm merely the bread in the sandwich of this show.

We need some filling, otherwise it's just dry bread.

Dominic Firefield, the latest squad member to be on, inverted commas, holiday. He sends his

regards from his paddling pool. With me on the line are the Athletics Dynamic Duo. It's a big

hello to Simon Johnson. Hello. It was suitably enthusiastic. And joining Simon is the one

and only Liam to me.

Hello.

Right, the number one item on our agenda today is arguably Chelsea's greatest ever number one.

So it was announced on Easter Sunday that Peter Benetti had passed away, age 78, after a long battle with illness.

Benetti was a Chelsea boy through and through.

From Putney, he was given a trial by the club after his mother wrote a letter to Chelsea.

After helping the Young Blues win the FA Youth Cup for the first time in 1960, he made his first team debut as an 18-year-old and would go on to play 729 games for the club across the best part of 20 years.

Only Ron Harris has worn a Chelsea shirt more often.

Benetti was between the posts as Chelsea lifted the FA Cup, the League Cup and the European

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