FA Cup final preview: Chelsea v Manchester City

Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show

The Athletic

Sports, Chelsea News, Chelsea Fc, Soccer,, Chelsea

4.9 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Surely the Wembley curse has to come to an end eventually?!

Matt Davies-Adams is joined by The Athletic's Liam Twomey and Luke Bosher for a mega look ahead to Saturday's FA Cup final against Manchester City at Wembley.

Do the Blues have any hope of beating Pep's men given their 13-game winless streak against them? What are the key selection issues heading into the final? And just what an incredible achievement would it be for Calum McFarlane to lead this side to an unlikely moment of glory in an otherwise chaotic season?

Off the pitch, there's protests planned at Wembley ahead of the match - and on Tuesday night against Tottenham at the Bridge. Liam speaks to organisers David and Jacob from NotAProjectCFC to find out more about this latest action - and whether there's any way back for BlueCo in the eyes of the supporters.

Plus - we've got word from David Ornstein on the news he broke earlier this week that Xabi Alonso is at the forefront of Chelsea's thinking as they seek a new head coach.

We'll be back on Monday with all the reaction and fallout from events at the national stadium on Saturday afternoon... can they do it!?

HOST: Matt Davies-Adams

WITH: Luke Bosher and Liam Twomey

PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC
0:03.3	It's
0:04.2	Chelsea
0:06.5	Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea.
0:14.9	It's straight out to Cobham, a show about Chelsea FC from the Athletic.
0:18.9	Coming up, an FA Cup final preview, and we hear from Not a Project CFC.
0:23.9	Crossing fingers in a bid to break the Wembley final curse.
0:27.4	This is straight out of Gobbon.
0:31.2	And what a season.
0:32.5	It's been not always spectacularly enjoyable.
0:35.9	I think it's fair to say, but there could be some silverware in the cabinet come Saturday night. We'll discuss that and more on today's pod. It's me, Matt. I am joined by two of the athletics' very finest. Hello, Luke Boischer. Hello, Matt. How are you? I'm all right, thanks. Yeah, not too bad. Liam Toome is on board as well. Liam, you're looking
0:54.8	forward to being at Wembley on Saturday? Yep, hoping my Wembley suit comes back from the dry cleaner in time. It's a cream, 1996 Liverpool job, I do believe. We're really looking forward to seeing that on Saturday. now then, listener, if you'd like to leave us a five-star review,
1:11.0	Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever you get your pods,
1:12.8	we haven't had any comments on Apple Podcasts for a while. on Saturday. Now then, listening, if you'd like to leave us a five-star review,
1:11.0	Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever you get your pods, we haven't had any comments on Apple Podcasts for a while. They are really helpful for other people who might want to listen to a Chelsea podcast, and they're helpful for us to impress our bosses as well, so we'd appreciate that. You can get in touch with the show at your leisure on Blue Sky and X at S.OCOM. by we can email
1:27.7	SOC at theathletic.com.
1:30.5	And if you are not currently, at your leisure on Blue Sky and X at S.OCOM pod. Or you can email SOC at theathletic.com.
1:30.4	And if you are not currently a subscriber, the best place to go to become one is theathletic.com slash Chelsea Pod.
1:38.1	If you are new, you might not know that we like to kick things off with a premature adjudication.
1:42.6	So I myself and the panelists come up with a speculative pun about something that might
1:46.9	happen in the world of Chelsea FC.
1:49.9	Luke has been in touch.
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