Kahan has supported Chelsea since he was a child growing up in Vermont – he started watching games with his English neighbours, who were Blues fans who knew Frank Lampard – and says he still feels the same connection with the club.
“Chelsea are still part of my identity,” he told BBC Sport. “I still watch every game, and I still get the same feeling I got when I was a kid when we lose – and when we win.
“I think when you’re a kid, you have your team – the first team you get into – and the first game you see them win, they kind of become immortalised in your head, and you never really quite reach that same place again, emotionally.
“For me, that moment was watching Didier Drogba, Lampard and John Terry in 2009.
“That was just when I really fell in love with the team and I feel like I’ve been chasing that same kind of admiration since. I guess it was just because I was a little kid and I thought they were superheroes and not people.
“Chelsea became an obsession for me. In my life, it was my first obsession with anything. For me and my family, it was this kind of obsession which felt very like it was our own – we were in America, we liked this thing that was overseas and it was our own little thing that belonged to us.
“I still love them now – I am just constantly frustrated by them, you know how it is!”
Chris Sutton and Noah Kahan were speaking to BBC Sport’s Chris Bevan.
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