Chelsea put seven past Port Vale - plus the Enzo debacle and Mudryk in Uxbridge!

Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show

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🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

How can you come away from a 7-0 victory... still kind of unconvinced?!

Matt Davies-Adams has got his Easter bunnies Sam Parkin and Liam Twomey alongside him for a look back on the thrashing of Port Vale in the FA Cup.

Who were the big winners and losers from the game? Why didn't Josh Acheampong get more minutes? And what does it say about Liam Delap's future that he was left out - and then still didn't manage to score once he'd come on?

Plus - a chance to touch upon some of the ongoing drama behind the scenes at the club - with Enzo Fernandez's two-game benching, Cucurella's comments, the race to finish in the top five - and Mudryk training in Uxbridge!

We'll be back on Thursday with a comprehensive look ahead to the visit of Manchester City in the Premier League.

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HOST: Matt Davies-Adams

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0:00.0	The Athletic F.C.
0:03.3	It's straight out to Cobham, a show about Chelsea FC from the Athletic.
0:18.6	Coming up, a not that magnificent seven, but an FA Cup semi-final nonetheless,
0:23.1	more Fernandez fallout and monitoring Mudrick's misery.
0:27.0	Goffawing at the Gunners, this is straight out of common.
0:33.2	Yeah, funny, isn't it, Arsenal?
0:35.2	Good weekend for Chelsea as well, we're here to discuss it or in the first of our bi-weekly blues talks. It's me, Matt Davis-Adams. I've got two of my pals of me today. I've got Sam parking on board. How you doing, Sam? Very good. Good morning to you all. happy Monday, happy Easter Monday in fact Sam and I were at the top of the Eastam for the game on Saturday.
0:54.9	Liam, two me's with us as well.
0:56.9	How are you, Liam?
0:57.9	I'm going. I was not. I was running after two children all weekend. But I had the game on a laptop and had about one eye on it, which was, felt like a lot of people in the stands were adopting a similar strategy. Not with children, but just the level of attention. Well, you had two eyes on Michael Moodyear. I'm looking forward to hearing about that later because nobody else has seen much of him for a while now. We shall get to that, but you know, first of all, we like to start with our premature adjudications sssepredicts
1:27.6	com the place to go to keep track with how we're going now initially i thought the f a cup
1:32.5	semi final draw was on monday for some reason so i said that chelsea will get southampton but i'm
1:37.5	changing it and i'm feeling positive see how you feel about this i think chelsea will win the
1:42.6	f a cup that's how bold I'm going today.
1:46.1	I'm trying to manifest this into reality.
1:49.0	Liam, are you going to stay positive too?
1:51.4	I'm going to say that two more players are going to wear the captain's armband between now and the end of the season.
2:17.7	Okay. I was looking around thinking, else could there possibly be to wear it? You're not going to specify, you're just being general, it will be too, too different, too you haven't worn it before, yeah? Yes. Okay, Robert Sanchez and... Esteval. Yeah, Estabwe.
2:18.4	Yeah, why not?
2:20.0	Sam, what you got for us today, please?
2:23.2	Yeah, I was going to do an FA Cup one, but you kind of stole on my thunder there.
2:28.3	I did enjoy one of our Chelsea TV colleagues saying that Chelsea were going to draw Southampton in the FA Cup semi-final at home due to the generosity that's been afforded to Chelsea across various
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