A historic comeback against the Hammers - now can they do it at Arsenal?
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
4.9 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
At the 57th time of asking...
Matt Davies-Adams and Sam Parkin team up to look back on the dramatic 3-2 victory over West Ham at Stamford Bridge on Saturday evening.
We've got a special double-header voice note from the press box on the final whistle as Cerys and Liam try and sum up the chaos that played out in front of them in the dictionary definition of a game of two halves.
Can the Blues bottle up that second 45 minutes and take it into Tuesday night's League Cup semi-final second leg at The Emirates?! We preview the trip to Arsenal - before Simon Johnson gives his deadline day verdict on what we can expect business wise from the Blues as the January transfer window closes.
Plus - it was another afternoon to forget for Chelsea Women after their 5-1 demolition by league leaders Manchester City on Sunday. The Athletic reports that Sonia Bompastor's job is safe - despite her saying she'd be ‘happy’ to leave Chelsea ‘if people think I’m not the right person’.
We'll be back slightly earlier on Wednesday this week to bring you our reaction to the Arsenal game - and look ahead to the visit to Molineux!
HOST: Matt Davies-Adams
WITH: Sam Parkin
PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | It's |
| 0:04.0 | Chelsea |
| 0:06.5 | Chelsea |
| 0:07.0 | Chelsea! |
| 0:08.7 | Chelsea! |
| 0:10.9 | Chelsea! |
| 0:12.9 | It's straight out to Cobham, a show about Chelsea FC from the Athletic. |
| 0:18.9 | Coming up, 3-2, from behind. Again, way to set the nerves jangling, Chelsea. We'll analyse a bonkers Saturday night at the bridge, then turn our attention to the second leg of the Caravow Cup's semi-final. Spoiler, Chelsea Win 3-2. Meanwhile, Bonpasta's Blues. The highest-rated show on the Athletic Podcast Network, twice a week thanks to its listeners. |
| 0:39.0 | This is straight out of Cobham. |
| 0:45.8 | My goodness me, it's a good job with twice a week, isn't it? |
| 0:48.5 | There's an awful lot to talk about in the world of Chelsea Football Club. |
| 0:51.8 | We were recording on Deadline Day. |
| 0:54.0 | We will react to that. |
| 0:55.4 | On Wednesday, today it's all about what happened on the pitch. |
| 1:00.2 | We were supposed to be joined by Simon Johnson, |
| 1:03.4 | but Lucy didn't like how he was performing in the pre-match warm-up and hold him off, |
| 1:08.2 | Liam Razini style. |
| 1:09.9 | So it's me, Matt, and I've got Sam Parking alongside me. Sam, you're okay? Very good. What a great weekend of football, eh? There's a reason why we love it so much. We certainly saw it writ large across the world this football, albeit maybe not other ATIAD on Sunday. That is going to feature my premature adjudication, but first, let's do some plugs. |
| 1:31.3 | You want to sign up for The Athletic. It's Theathletic.com slash Chelsea Pod. We're still taking those five-star reviews. You know how much they mean to us, Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever you get your pods. find us on social media at |
| 1:41.6 | SOCob and you can email this show |
| 1:43.6 | SOC at theathletic.com |
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