Alonso announced! More Wembley misery and another Battle of the Bridge?
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
4.9 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Matt Davies-Adams has got The Athletic's Simon Johnson and Liam Twomey for company after a rather busy days for Chelsea Football Club...
A seventh straight defeat in a final at Wembley? Bad.
Xabi Alonso announced as the new Blues manager? Now, that's more like it!
We've got all the latest on Alonso's appointment, plus a look back on the narrow 1-0 defeat by Manchester City in the FA Cup final AND a look ahead to the visit of Tottenham in the Premier League on Tuesday night. Can they sign off at Stamford Bridge on a high by taking Spurs' relegation battle to the last day of the season?
Plus - an emotional goodbye for Millie Bright and Sam Kerr - who scored on her final CFCW appearance to beat Manchester United and equal Fran Kirby's goalscoring record as Sonia Bompastor's side wrap up a third-placed finish in the WSL.
We'll be back with you on Wednesday - hot off the back of events at the Bridge - to bring you reaction to the Tottenham game and look ahead to the final day of the season at Sunderland.
HOST: Matt Davies-Adams
WITH: Liam Twomey and Simon Johnson
PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.2 | It's C |
| 0:03.3 | It's Chelsea |
| 0:06.5 | Chelsea |
| 0:08.2 | Chelsea |
| 0:09.0 | Chelsea |
| 0:10.2 | Chelsea |
| 0:11.1 | It's |
| 0:11.5 | It's Chelsea |
| 0:12.0 | It's show about Chelsea FC from The Athletic. Coming up, another Cup final defeat. |
| 0:21.4 | But that gets bumped down the running order because there's another new manager. |
| 0:25.4 | The final home game of this season awaits and Sam Kerr's perfect goodbye. |
| 0:30.1 | Hoping next season's not so shabby with shabby, this is straight out of common. |
| 0:37.2 | And we have got an awful lot to get through in our Monday pod listener, a cup final, a new manager, a legend saying goodbye. |
| 0:46.5 | Oh, and the small matter of Tottenham at home as well. |
| 0:49.3 | How very Chelsea of them to set us up for such a big pod. |
| 0:53.7 | It's me, Matt, and I have got the athletics to Chelsea |
| 0:56.6 | correspondence alongside me. Simon Johnson, fresh from Callum McFarlane's pre-Tottenham Presser. How is that? |
| 1:04.2 | I feel as fresh as Callum and as enthusiastic, but my message to everyone is seven in a row. |
| 1:14.4 | You'll never sing that. |
| 1:16.1 | Hopefully you'll be a bit more elaborate than Callum has been with some of his answers. |
| 1:21.7 | Bless him. I'm sure he'll be pleased to be out of the firing line in a couple of weeks of time. |
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