Hello and welcome back to the Stadio podcast. I'm Missa Kwonga.

I'm Ryan Hun.

Ryan, how you doing?

Doing all right. Thanks, man. How are you?

Very well, indeed.

We hope everyone else is staying safe and well wherever you are. A quick bit of admin very, very quickly.

You wrote a piece for the kickback soccer newsletter that went up last week. So we're going to put that link in the description. If you want to go and check that out and follow all their stuff through the World Cup and some stuff that we've done with them as well. There was some stuff went up last week from Venetia where we did collab post with Stadio. So if you want to go follow Stadio football on Instagram you'll see those go follow kickback soccer If you want to sign up to Stadio on Patreon you get every episode ad free in full including the episode we did last Thursday about Florentino Perez's wild press conference last week in the situation at Real Madrid so if we want to go and and sign up, get 15% off annual membership, patreon.com forward slash stadio. You can sign up as a podcast member or a stadio social club member. South Bank Centre live show. It's the Thursday after the World Cup final. We're going to be joined by Nish Kumar. We're very excited. So if you're in London and you want to come along Thursday the 23rd of July. The link for tickets is in the description as well. And I reckon that's all the admin. So today we're going to shout out a couple of things that happened this weekend. We're recording this on Sunday afternoon. So we're going to swerve most of the football that's taken place there. We're going to do a couple of quick shoutouts from the football from Saturday, but we're mainly

going to talk about Jabby Alonzo.

As it was confirmed, he will not be the Chelsea head coach.

He will be in fact be the Chelsea manager.

Fascinating.

Which is very interesting.

Listen to everyone, that's how you use your leverage

in a job negotiation on the way in. That is how you use your leverage. Wow. That's a power move. A power

move. Love to see it. But before that, should we talk about the FA Cup final? Because weirdly,

in the week that it was, it really felt like it was off the radar in the buildup.

There's a reason for that. There's a few reasons. I mean, look, I think with the mood around Chelsea, a lot of the fans, including some of those in our community, I think felt a bit underwhelmed, you know, not just by the season, but by the occasion.

And there was a sense of despondency about the club's general direction, which is, I mean, you look at them now and you couldn't be happier, really, with that guy coming in. We've managed to get a few reactions from some Chelsea fans that we'll talk about with the Jabby Lonzo thing. Yeah, the FA Cup, I think. I think when they first got to the ever-gcup final, I think, more than a lot I think it's going to be

in the next few weeks,

given the appointment. And then obviously for City, who were chasing this kind of, the most low-key domestic trouble, I think, of recent times. Because they could win a trouble, but it doesn't feel like any of, at no point do they feel like they've been like in charge of their destiny, which is a

strange thing to say.

Interesting season from there.

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