Chelsea's season reaches new *unacceptable* low after Forest B team embarrassment
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Can the season just end now?
Matt Davies-Adams enlists The Athletic's Chelsea experts Liam Twomey and Simon Johnson for our latest doomcast after the horror show against an unrecognisable Nottingham Forest.
What can you even say after that performance?! The lack of effort, the shortcomings all over the field, the terrible end to what should have been a special day for Jesse Derry, the magnificent Joao Pedro goal which will sadly be nothing more than an after-thought in an afternoon to forget.
Elsewhere - CFCW seal UWCL football! But the U21's season is over after PL2 play-off quarter-final defeat.
Plus, legendary goalkeeper Petr Cech shares his reflections on the current state of the club.
We'll be back on Thursday for the look ahead to Saturday's trip to Anfield to take on Liverpool... they haven't won their since March 2021 - what could possibly go wrong?
HOST: Matt Davies-Adams
WITH: Simon Johnson and Liam Twomey
PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | It's |
| 0:04.2 | It's |
| 0:06.0 | Chelsea |
| 0:06.5 | Chelsea |
| 0:08.5 | Chelsea |
| 0:09.0 | Chelsea |
| 0:10.2 | Chelsea |
| 0:11.1 | It's |
| 0:11.7 | It's |
| 0:12.6 | It's |
| 0:14.8 | It's |
| 0:15.7 | It's |
| 0:16.7 | It's |
| 0:16.7 | From the Athletic |
| 0:19.0 | Coming up |
| 0:19.7 | Falling to Forest Crisis mode fully activated Checking in with Peta The a show about Chelsea FC from the Athletic. Coming up, falling to forests, |
| 0:21.1 | crisis mode fully activated, |
| 0:23.4 | checking in with Petter, |
| 0:24.8 | the women's team secured Champions League football, |
| 0:27.5 | but the under 21 season is over. |
| 0:30.1 | Very much looking forward to the 25th of May now. |
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