In the end, it took one of our Irish colleagues to nip in in the final throes of Enzo Maresca’s pre-match press conference and ensure that said match got even a mention.
From the outset on Wednesday, the media room at Cobham had been rather more crowded than you might expect for a Conference League dead rubber against Shamrock Rovers, a throwback to the very recent days when on-field matters tended to tell you only part of whatever was going on at Chelsea.
