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This is straight out of Cobham, a show about Chelsea FC from The Athletic.

On this episode, Chelsea earn a point the harder way in the Champions League,

the briefest of international roundups,

midterm reports and more.

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This is straight out of common.

A listener, it is international break time for the men's side,

but SOC stops for nobody. As ever, there's plenty to discuss in the world of London's first and finest. Joining me, Matt Davis-Adams, to talk through it all, our Super Sam Parking. Hello, Matt. Hello, Sam. Also with us, The Athletics Man in the Know on Chelsea and All slash some other stuff. Dominic Fifeield, hi Don't.

Good morning. How are you?

I'm good. So last time we heard from you, Dom, you were competing with the PA system in Turin.

Tell us a little bit about how the experience of travelling abroad to cover Chelsea in these particular times was.

I'm imagining there was a fair bit of paperwork.

Yeah, a lot of tests, a lot of forms to fill in.

But I don't suppose that's only different for anybody

who's travelling abroad at the moment from the UK.

They weren't more because I was attending a Champions League game on the continent.

I mean, the actual match day experience was pretty much normal until

the post-match scenes. And that really was something else. I mean, I don't know, our listeners

will be aware, but in normal circumstances, at the end of a game, there's a press conference in a media theatre.

The manager may be a player if you're lucky sits on the top table and his questions are fired at him from the floor.

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