Hey there, welcome to football with Grant Wall.

Thanks so much for joining me.

Today's interview guest is Stefano Fusaro of E-SPN who's in the

bubble covering the MLS's back tournament we've had some great interview

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talk about the soccer news with my friend Chris

Whittingham who co-host the Chelsea miked-up podcast which you should definitely

check out Chris thanks for joining me. How are you?

Happy to do it, Grant. How's everything?

I'm good, hanging in, just kind of like everybody else here.

Late July, slightly less soccer going on now in the wider world,

but it's not completely done and there's an

FA Cup final this weekend Chelsea against Arsenal and I'm looking forward to it and I guess maybe I have an American-centric view but Christian Polisic and a cup final is kind of a cool thing to look forward to.

And I was kind of hoping that he would turn in a little bit more of a performance for Chelsea when they played wolves last Sunday because I do think that part of the Chelsea legacy of the Abramovich era is just how much they've won. I was going through it today for the

for the Mike Duck pod, five primary leagues, five FA cups, three league cups, obviously

the Champions League, two Europa leagues. This is a team that has just acquired trophies, basically one per season in the post-Obrumovich era,

so contributions towards winning major honors is going to be a major part of Christian politics

legacy, especially as he's drawn Ed and

Hazard comparisons. So I do kind of want to see him turn in the kind of

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