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Football Weekly Extra: Di Matteo pays the price as Benítez heads to Chelsea

On today's Football Weekly Extra, James Richardson is joined by Barry Glendenning, Jacob Steinberg and James Horncastle to reflect on yet more stuff and nonsense in the beautiful game.

We start course with Chelsea, where just six months after winning the Champions League, Roberto Di Matteo was given the boot at Stamford Bridge and Rafael Benítez becomes the latest manager who can look forward to a massive pay-off in a few months. Owen Gibson gives us his thoughts.

Next we pick over the bones of Manchester City's inevitable and in no way comic elimination from the Champions League after their draw with Real Madrid.

Finally, we look forward to a few of the key fixtures this weekend in the Premier League, like City's trip to Chelsea and West Ham's journey to Tottenham.

All of that plus social realism in Sesame Street and a bit of Sid Lowe – who you can see in this rather splendid film about the role of Barcelona in the campaign for Catalan independence.

We've got Philippe Auclair and – if you scream loud enough – Sean Ingle with us on Monday. See you then, but not before you've seen Jimbo's paper review.

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