Is it a case of damage limitation for Chelsea at Anfield on Saturday?
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
News just in... unfortunately we can't forfeit this game...
Matt Davies-Adams is once again joined by two of The Athletic's finest - Simon Johnson and Liam Twomey - for a look ahead to the weekend trip to Merseyside to take on Liverpool.
Will the players actually bother to try and put in some kind of performance on Saturday? What players are even available? And do they need to string a couple of results together to have any hope going into the FA Cup final?
Plus - we discuss the announcement of changes to the club's ticketing policy next season - and what the ramifications could be.
Oh, and Super Frank! He's been speaking to The Athletic's Tom Burrows after guiding Coventry City back to the Premier League.
We'll be back on Monday with a look back on events at Anfield - and see whether Chelsea Women have managed to book their place in an FA Cup final.
HOST: Matt Davies-Adams
WITH: Liam Twomey Simon Johnson
PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.2 | It's |
| 0:04.0 | Chelsea |
| 0:06.5 | Chelsea! |
| 0:07.0 | Chelsea! |
| 0:09.0 | Chelsea! |
| 0:11.0 | Chelsea! |
| 0:13.0 | It's straight out of Cobham, a show about Chelsea FC from the Athletic. |
| 0:19.0 | Coming up, looking ahead to Liverpool, sigh. |
| 0:21.5 | Listening to lamps, smile, and the rest of the blues news. |
| 0:25.1 | In no way fearful of a recurrence of what happened the last time Chelsea went to Merseyside. |
| 0:30.0 | This is straight out of common. |
| 0:35.2 | Quick turnaround for us for our second show of the week. |
| 0:38.1 | This Time listener, Chelsea in Action early on Saturday as they go to Amphil. |
| 0:43.7 | We're going to look ahead to that. |
| 0:44.7 | We'll do a bit of ticket price chat as well and hear from Frank Lampard later on in the podcast. |
| 0:50.7 | Now then Tuesday's episode was so well received that we've decided to get the band |
| 0:54.5 | back together. Simon Johnson, how you doing? Wonderful. How are you, Matt? Yeah, I'm a little bit |
| 1:00.9 | nervous if I'm totally honest. It's Thursday, 12 o'clock. I've got eight hours to stew on |
| 1:06.5 | events at Villa Park tonight. Liam, two minutes back with us as well. You okay, Liam? |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah, good. I can't even really think of a witty repost. It's that stage of the season. Yeah, it is. I think we're all ready for it to wind down. It would be fair to say. Let me remind you, listener, or maybe tell you for the first time, if you're new to the show, you can get in touch with us via numerous methods. We're on Blue Sky and X at SOCOM. Pod, or you can email SOC at theathletic.com. If you want to sign up to read all the excellent work, Simon, Liam and everybody else put on the site is theathletic.com slash Chelsea Pod. And we're still taking your lovely five-star reviews on podcast Spotify wherever you get your pods. |
| 1:45.2 | Now then, we always start with our premature adjudications. I had a little look at the table |
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