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

Each week, our panel of Chelsea experts bring you the very latest blues news and views.

On today's show, the latest on Chelsea's return to training.

We'll discuss the Italian influence at Stanford Bridge and look back on Adrian Mutu's troubled time in West London.

All that to come on this edition of Straight Out of Cobb.

Yes, hello again, listener.

Thanks for lending us your ears.

I'm Matt Davis-Adams,

and as well as my usual trifecter of chatter,

we'll also have an Italian expert on board later in the show. First up, though, let's bring in the regulars. Having presumably just demolished his daughter's keep a-upy record in the back garden, he's brimming with even more Vim and Vigour than usual. It's Simon Johnson. Hello, everyone. Wow, Vim and Vigour are plenty. That was triumphant. I'm disconcerted by that Also on board

His interview Wow, Vim and Vigra are plenty. That was triumphant. I'm disconcerted by that too.

Also on board, his interview with Chelsea fan and former snooker world champion Neil Robertson is up on the athletic now, but as the only Potter with a 100% attendance record, he's not used to a big break.

It's Liam to me.

Oh, lovely, lovely segue.

Lovely segue, man.

And not forgetting the man who's brief of the athletic is wider than the gap between two

subs on a Bundesliga bench, it's Dominic Fyfield.

These are magnificent. I have to say. How long have you been working on these? A whole

week? Yes. It's tremendous. It's all downhill from here.

We'll hear from the athletics Italian football officinado, James Horncastle, later.

But first, the continually brief latest news section.

So there is a breaking story as we record on Monday lunchtime.

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