Frank Lampard Sacked + Is Thomas Tuchel An 'Accident Waiting To Happen'?
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
4.9 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Host Matt Davies-Adams & The Athletic's Chelsea experts, Liam Twomey, Simon Johnson & Dominic Fifield, reconvene following Frank Lampard's sacking - with Thomas Tuchel poised to succeed him.
What impact will the Chelsea icon's exit have on the club's youth policy, how much have Havertz and Werner's form contributed to Tuchel's selection and would it have unravelled so quickly if the stadiums weren't empty?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:09.8 | It's straight out of Cobham, the Chelsea FC podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:13.4 | This is your weekly destination for the very best blues analysis from the Athletics men in the know. |
| 0:18.7 | Today we're talking about, well, you know, for well what we're |
| 0:21.7 | talking about, Frank Lampard, no longer Chelsea head coach. We'll tell you why. Available for free, |
| 0:26.8 | wherever you get your podcast and ad free on the athletic, this is straight out of Cobham. |
| 0:37.1 | Hello, listener, hope you well. Matt Davis Adams here with Take 2 of this week's show. |
| 0:41.0 | We just started our Monday morning record when news of Frank Lampard's impending departure broke. |
| 0:46.4 | Handily, I've got the three chaps with me who've been at the forefront of this story over the last few weeks. |
| 0:51.2 | They are. Simon Johnson. |
| 0:52.7 | Hello. |
| 0:53.5 | Dominic Fyfield. |
| 0:54.7 | Hello. |
| 0:55.4 | And from the world of confirmation biases, it's Liam Toomey. Hello. Hello. |
| 1:00.5 | So the seemingly inevitable finally came to pass on Monday, Chelsea, |
| 1:04.1 | confirming the departure of Frank Lampard after a season and a half as Chelsea head coach. |
| 1:09.5 | The athletics been on top of this story for some time. I'd encourage all our listeners to read the big breakdown of the big breakup. Simon's led the way on that one. It's a signature athletic piece. Loads of detail you won't find anywhere else. Truly outstanding reporting. We know Lampard's a subscriber. If you'd like to be to head to theathletic.com slash Chelsea pod and sign up for just |
| 1:28.4 | £3.99 a month for the first six months. Listen, we've got to drive these subs, Dom. That's the |
| 1:34.8 | key thing here. First impressions then, Dom, I'll let you go first. How did you feel? How did |
| 1:40.8 | you react when you heard the news, which you broke to the rest of us? |
| 1:49.1 | I'm not sure reading Twitter is breaking news. I've said that on another podcast already today. |
| 1:56.5 | How did I feel? Well, look, as you said there, there was a sense of inevitability about it increasingly. I think for me, having witnessed that Leicester game first-hand last week, that really was a bit of an eye |
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