triumph

Getting straight to the point: It's a triumph.

Fresh from winning the Club World Cup, a triumph in the Conference League, a return to Champions League football and unprecedented investment in the squad, things should be rosy between Chelsea's ownership and supporters.

England's bid to win the Ashes for the first time since 2015, and triumph in Australia for the first time in 14 years, begins on 21 November.

For that reason, the T20 World Cup on home soil next summer is an obvious target, an opportunity to recreate the magic of the 2017 triumph at Lord's.

But outside of that, it’d been more than three decades since they last triumphed under typical circumstances.