Hakim Ziyech Restoring Balance To The Team
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
4.9 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Host Matt Davies-Adams & The Athletic's Chelsea experts, Simon Johnson, Liam Twomey & Dominic Fifield, reconvene following a 4-1 win over Sheffield United and a very ill-timed international break...
Could the 'outstanding' Hakim Ziyech soon become a talisman of 'Hazard' proportions? How is Tammy Abraham shining among all Lampard's new stars?
Plus, The Athletic's Women's Football writer Katie Whyatt reflects on Chelsea's WSL form, Sam Kerr's stuttering form and whether Emma Hayes is destined to become the first female Premier League manager.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to straight out of Cobham, the Chelsea FC podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:16.9 | Every week we break down all the big blues news in the company of the Athletics Chelsea experts. |
| 0:22.1 | Today we'll reflect on the weekend thumping of Sheffield United, check in on the women's team and answer your questions. |
| 0:27.8 | Available for free wherever you get your podcasts and add free on the Athletic. |
| 0:31.8 | This is straight out of Cobham. Yes, welcome in, listener Matt Davis Adams here, joined by the Athletics Chelsea Brains. |
| 0:46.5 | Liam Toomey's here. Hi, Liam. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello. |
| 0:48.7 | And Simon Johnson. |
| 0:50.3 | Greetings. |
| 0:51.5 | And Dominic Fifeield. |
| 0:53.1 | Dom, I want to start off with you telling us a bit about the piece you've written for the athletic regarding junior football being halted during lockdown too, because I know it's something that you're passionate about. |
| 1:03.4 | Yeah, well, I'm passionate. I'm also devastated. |
| 1:05.7 | I'm devastated on the kids' behalf, the boys and girls who are missing out on playing youth football at the moment |
| 1:13.7 | at grassroots level as a result of the government's new COVID restrictions. |
| 1:20.3 | I know it's only for a month technically, but I don't think anyone actually believes it's going to be for |
| 1:24.2 | just a month. I suspect it all to extend well towards Christmas |
| 1:28.8 | and then realistically into the new year as well. I just think it's going to have a massive |
| 1:34.4 | effect on the mental health of the boys and girls to be honest, as well as their physical health. |
| 1:40.5 | It's something that got me really worked up last week. I'm biased. I'm a manager of |
| 1:45.7 | an under 12's team and I've watched the boys in that team come out of their shells. A lot of them |
| 1:53.1 | were affected by the first lockdown. A lot of them went very insular in that period and found it |
| 1:58.2 | very difficult. And in the last few weeks and months, |
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