Hello and I thank you for joining us this.

Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times. I'm Gabriel Marcotti and I thank you for joining us this week with me in the studio today.

It's the very excellent Allison Rudd who is presently applying chapstick.

Down the line we have from an undisclosed location somewhere in far west London,

probably not very far from Matthew Siaid's house.

It's Matt Dickinson, who I believe is also applying chapstick

I'm very close to the Matthew size mansion rather than house. I think you got to get the right terminology there

I think Gaff is the term we like to use.

It's the book a lot of people are talking about.

Brave New World inside Mauricio Poccicinos Tautnam Hosper.

I am delighted that joining us for that is going to be an alumnus of the game

podcast and a good friend of mine Giam Balaget who of course went and and

actually physically wrote the book.

Not that Pochitino wouldn't have been able to,

it's just that he's very busy,

unlike Gien, who's just a layabout and does very little.

But first, of course, we need to start

at Stamford Bridge. I'm delighted that we're joined for this part of discussion by Henry Winter as well.

Henry, the backdrop to this a bad defeat in Rome the usual murmurs about

people being unhappy sniping from fromino, Konta, happily sniping back.

And then he decides, I think,

that if he's gonna go down, he's gonna go down on his terms.

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