Buy One Football Supporter, Get One Free.  Stand-up comic Omid Djalili was born in Chelsea and has been a passionate and regular spectator at Stamford Bridge from an early age.  Forced out of London by the impact of the pandemic, he re-appeared in Suffolk and became increasingly interested in the fortunes of what is now his nearest football club, Ipswich Town.  In a predictably amusing podcast episode, Omid explains the dual loyalty but adds a variety of stories of growing up a Chelsea fan at the time of increasing violence amongst supporters

and in an era when to be of Middle Eastern origin was not a pathway to automatic acceptance, either by football crowds or by a British society growing increasingly intolerant of immigrants.  As ever, Omid deals successfully with all problems through humour.

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