Frank Lampard's 'Perfect Storm'
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
4.9 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Host Matt Davies-Adams & The Athletic's Chelsea experts, Liam Twomey, Simon Johnson & Dominic Fifield, reconvene following the defeat to Man City and to discuss their breaking news story that manager Frank Lampard's position as manager is under serious threat...
How close is Roman Abramovich to pulling the plug on the club's all-time leading goalscorer and who could replace him -with former target Mauricio Pochettino replacing Thomas Tuchel at PSG?
Plus, the guys look ahead to an FA Cup tie against Morecambe, the prospect of watching Billy Gilmour and Valentino Livramento, as well as, whether the competition could still be scrapped this season in light of fixture congestion.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to straight out of Cobham, the Chelsea FC podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:16.2 | We're back after our festive break to talk all the blues news and blues from over the festive period. |
| 0:22.4 | Today we'll be discussing Frank Lampard's future following Sunday's dismal defeat to Manchester |
| 0:26.7 | City. We'll answer your questions and look ahead to Saturday's probable F.A. Cup meeting with |
| 0:31.5 | Morecambe. Available for free wherever you get your podcasts and add free on the Athletic, |
| 0:36.2 | this is straight out of Cobham. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello listener, I hope you Christmas well. Happy New Year and all. I'm Matt Davis Adams, |
| 0:43.3 | here to guide you through the choppy waters of Chelsea's winter months in the company of the |
| 0:47.8 | Athletics Blues experts. I'm talking of course about Simon Johnson. Hi Simon. Hello, happy new year. |
| 1:30.7 | And to you. Liam Toomey's with us too. Morning Liam. Hello. Nice quiet start. 2021. As always. And to Dominic Feifield. How you doing, Dom? Good. Thanks, Matt. How are you? Yes, really well. Thank you. Well, two of our trio broke a big old story on Sunday night. We'll discuss that next. But first, we have a new offer for you. You can sign up to The Athletic for just £3.99 a month for the first six months. And enjoy unrivaled coverage of your club in 2021, as well as ad-free podcast via the app. Just go to theathletic.com slash Chelsea pod for all the info. So in the wake of Chelsea's wretched defeat to Manchester City on Sunday, |
| 1:32.8 | Simon and Liam broke a story for The Athletic, which revealed that Frank Lampard's job as Chelsea head coach is under threat |
| 1:36.9 | and that alternatives are being looked at. |
| 1:40.3 | Briefly on the game, Liam, before we get to the story, |
| 1:42.9 | was this the Nadir of chelsea season in terms of |
| 1:45.9 | performances or was it just a case of city were far too good for them arsonal was worse because |
| 1:50.7 | you have to take into account the opposition and city were were genuinely excellent for probably |
| 1:58.8 | a good hour of the game. |
| 2:05.5 | They also set up really intelligently to exploit Chelsea's weaknesses, |
| 2:07.1 | defending in transition, |
| 2:09.9 | and not playing a true striker, |
| 2:15.0 | which of course is a trademark part of Pep Guadiola's game plan. |
| 2:18.0 | They were just super fluid, super fast. |
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