Forest (H), manager latest, Mudryk's appeal & Bright's retirement
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
MDA Derby pending...
Matt Davies-Adams has got Sam Parkin and Liam Twomey for company - and a smorgasbord of Chelsea-related chatter to get stuck into ahead of a busy weekend of action.
We look ahead to the visit of Nottingham Forest. We discuss any managerial developments and hear from Italian football expert James Horncastle on why it may be difficult to tempt Cesc Fabregas away from Como. We chat Mudryk's CAS appeal and what comes next. We're joined by women's football writer of the year Charlotte Harpur to discuss legend Millie Bright's retirement! And we try and name a bunch of 17-year-olds who made their Premier League debuts.
We'll be back on Tuesday with a look back on the Bank Holiday festivities at Stamford Bridge as the Blues look to keep their hopes of European football alive!
HOST: Matt Davies-Adams
WITH: Liam Twomey, Sam Parkin and Charlotte Harpur
PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | It's C |
| 0:03.3 | It's Chelsea |
| 0:06.5 | Chelsea |
| 0:06.5 | Chelsea get back to win ways in the league, |
| 0:22.4 | question mark, Mudrick's Cascase and a bright finish. |
| 0:25.9 | Buying a half-and-half scarf with legitimacy, this is straight out of Cobham. |
| 0:32.9 | Cracky, there's never a dull day in the world of Chelsea FC, is there? |
| 0:36.6 | No wonder we need two shows a week just to deal with it. All we got lots to come today. We'll be talking Millie Bright. We'll be talking Mikhailo Mudrick. And looking ahead to the MDA Derby as it's termed in my house and literally nowhere else. It's me, Matt, and I've got two of my podcast in battles alongside me today. The athletics |
| 0:55.2 | Liam, too. He's had a nice, quiet week. You're right, Liam? Going back to Uxbridge FC anytime soon? |
| 1:00.6 | Probably not. Probably not, but the, the Mudrick case quite clearly has a few more twists left to run. |
| 1:07.1 | Who needs matches to cover Matt when we've got all this news. Yeah, it's a special club. |
| 1:12.3 | We'll talk more about Mikhailo Madrid later. |
| 1:14.3 | Sam Parkins back with us as well. |
| 1:17.3 | You passed your in sample to make the pod salmon. |
| 1:20.1 | That's good news. |
| 1:22.0 | Do you know what? |
| 1:22.8 | Just to change the subject, not to give them away my quiz prepping secrets, |
| 1:27.2 | but I was thinking about players that I've played for both Forrest and Chelsea during my run this morning, just in case we threw it back to the old school and had a quiz where we can say Darren Barnard as every answer. And you're in quite a safe space, Matt, because until recently, there's not many at all. Yeah, I mean, it's not going to help |
| 1:45.0 | you with the quiz. Do you know, I mean, there's Callum, isn't there? Calum and Ollo currently. |
| 1:53.7 | I think I saw Dave Besson and John Terry playing the same forest team. Yeah, I saw John Terry. Nottingham |
| 1:59.5 | Forest legend, Andre Santos. That's true. Yeah. Nathaniel Chiloba had a little loan spell a couple of years ago. Anyway, that is not Chelsea Top 10s this week. We will get to that later, but let's start with some plugs. Remember, you can find us Lex and Blue Sky at S.O.com pod. You can email S.S.C email s oathletic.com. We're still taking your |
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