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

Each and every week, our panel

of Blues Brains convened to discuss the latest goings-on in and around SW6. On today's show,

we have a triple contract update. There's the latest on lockdown life as the first team resumed

training. And we discuss the Chelsea Life and Times of the current Prime Minister of Liberia.

Honestly.

All that to come in this edition, have straight out of Cobham.

Yes, hello again, listener.

Matt Davis-Adams here.

Seems as though we're creeping ever closer towards the return of Premier League football next month. But for now, still no live action for us to discuss. But of course, this being the blues, we still have plenty of hot topics to get our teeth into. Joining me this week are the Athletics three men in the know on all things, Chelsea. First up, he's currently inviting athletic subscribers to meet Edmund Tapsoba. I was surprised to find out Tapsober is a footballer, not a member of the cabinet. Hello, Dominic Fifeield. Hello, how you doing? Good, yeah, it's a great name now, isn't it, Edmund Tapsober? Good footballer as well, by the sounds of him. Very good player, yeah, very good player, whose rise has been meteoric, and I suspect we'll keep going up and up and up, and I imagine we'll see him at some stage in the Premier League. Yeah, I look forward to the slew of Twitter questions about when is Tap Sober signing for Chelsea. Joining Dom, fresh from opening and then closing his virtual Chelsea mailbag, we call him the postman because he always delivers. It's Liam Toomey. Hello. And Dom, you

should know better. Meteors don't rise. They fall. Well, surely they have to rise initially,

don't they? And then they have to fall subsequently? I don't know. Maybe, maybe you're right.

Well, not according to Dan Barnes with the athletic style guide. Don't catch him. Hear you say that.

I say Liam Toome. I mean, Professor. Hear you say that. I'm alien to me.

I mean, Professor Brian Cox, of course.

Last but not leave.

It's pedant, actually.

Also, joining us today.

I put him last because nobody can live up to his breezy introses.

It's Simon Johnson.

Hi. No, that was disappointing. It's Simon Johnson. Hi.

No, that was disappointing.

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