A red card? Conceding from corners?! Welcome to the Chelsea experience
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
We've seen this movie far too many times now...
Matt Davies-Adams has got Luke Bosher and Simon Johnson in tow to look back on the hugely frustrating and in many ways avoidable 2-1 defeat by Arsenal at The Emirates.
We begin with a pretty dismayed Liam Twomey and his thoughts from the press box - before reflecting on Robert Sanchez's disastrous afternoon, the unfortunate gulf in class between Arsenal and Chelsea in this current iteration - and the latest red card in a shocking string of inexcusable dismissals which have cost the Blues so dearly.
There's no time to sulk though - with a trip to Birmingham and a faltering Aston Villa on Wednesday night. The hosts have only won two of their last seven in the league - and Rosenior's side could close the gap on them to three points if they could come away with a win.
Plus, our thoughts on a meeting with Club World Cup friends PSG in the Champions League which is just around the corner...
We're back in your ears on Thursday with reaction from the trip to Villa - and a look ahead to the visit to Wrexham in the 5th round of the FA Cup!
HOST: Matt Davies-Adams
WITH: Luke Bosher and Simon Johnson
PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic F.C. |
| 0:03.3 | It's straight out of Cobham, a show about Chelsea FC from the Athletic. |
| 0:18.9 | Coming up, Chelsea lose two one-on corners at the Emirates. |
| 0:22.3 | No netto gains, as Pedro becomes the latest red card calamity. |
| 0:25.9 | No time to sulk boat a midweek trip to the villa awaits. |
| 0:28.7 | Always aware when it gets a booking. |
| 0:30.7 | This is straight out of Cobham. |
| 0:36.1 | And it's our Monday blues show, and we are feeling a little blue perhaps about what happened on Sunday in North London. |
| 0:44.8 | We're going to get into that. |
| 0:45.8 | We're going to talk about the bill of the game a bit more besides as well. |
| 0:49.1 | It's me, Matt, and I'm joined by two of the athletics finest. |
| 0:51.6 | Simon Johnson's back with us. |
| 0:52.7 | You, okay, Simon? |
| 0:53.8 | Oh, very well. I've got the windows open in where I always sit for the first time this year. And there's blue skies, the sun's out. What more do you want? Yeah, it's getting better, isn't it? I was walking the dog at 6.30 this morning and the sun was coming up and it looked beautiful. and I thought, oh, that looks nice. And I thought, I, 6.30 in the morning, Chelsea have lost and Forest have lost. |
| 1:13.9 | Maybe I shouldn't be quite so cheerful. Luke, uh, Luke Bosh has always got a smile on his face. Hey, do you and Luke? Yeah, not too bad. Thanks. Not too bad. Shall we do some premature adjudications? That's how we'd like to kick off the show. |
| 1:25.1 | Sam Parking very quick on the group chat yesterday |
| 1:27.7 | to point out that he'd got his from Thursday's pod |
| 1:30.3 | correct, rightly so. how we'd like to kick off the show. Sam Parking very quick on the group chat yesterday |
| 1:27.6 | to point out that he'd got his from Thursday's pod. |
| 1:30.7 | Correct. |
| 1:31.1 | Rightly so. |
| 1:31.8 | Liam Rossini, |
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