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It's kind of kinky, isn't it?

But I can't do it on my own, so it's a good job that I'm joined by Patty Barclay, Ben Smith,

and broadcasting from a secret bat cave and lovely ripenden, it's Ali Kay.

Later on, I'll be asking my panel if a player who suffers racial abuse from an opponent on a football

pitch is duty-bound to report it but first we start at Stanford Bridge.

Right Chelsea and Liverpool

I'm going to begin with you I was struck by this by this Liverpool lineup I want to I mean I know we'll get stuck into Chelsea but I looked at it and and I sort of thought to myself

all right you know this is kind of where Dog Leach kind of earns his penny.

He's not afraid to go and change things around.

I totally wasn't expecting Maxi and Downing on the bench and Henderson on the bench.

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