Hello and welcome to straight out of Cobham, the Chelsea FC Focus podcast from The Athletic.

This is your one-stop shop for all the latest blues, news, reviews, previews and views.

On today's show, we're conducting the post-mortem on Chelsea's

galling defeat on Tyne side, looking ahead to the big midweek match against Arsenal,

reveling in the women's team's dismantling of the gunners,

examining the blues burgeoning relationship with Swansea City,

answering your questions and meeting our latest cult hero. It's a controversial one.

All that and more to come on this episode of Straight Out of Cobham. Yes, welcome, listener. It's me, Matt Davis-Adams, back with my athletic associates to talk you through another week in the life of Chelsea Football Club. Don Feifield's been out in the Netherlands meeting Alan Pargy, as you do, so he's not here this week. But making a welcome return from the Physio's Room is Simon Johnson. Have you thawed out from Saturday's trip to Tynside yet? Yes, Sneercastle's worked wonders. But it gets me back after my unofficial winter break. I had to touch you on the way in to make sure you were real. Yes. That sounds bad. I'm not just a myth. with Simon, the only member of the panel with a 100% attendance record so far in this series. Think of him as our Cesar, Aras Pilaquetta. It's Liam to me. No, Frank Lampard. Okay. Yeah. Was it 162? Yeah. That beats 74 Premier League games. Sorry, Cesar. I'm getting caught up in old as Pillar Quetta, aren't I? Good to have you both on board anyway. We can't put this off any longer. Let's dissect what went wrong at Newcastle. A tweet here from S. Johnson Sport. In the time it's taken me to travel home by train, brackets four in total, closed brackets from Newcastle today. I could have flown to Dubai.

Ridiculous. At least I saw a good game, not impressed face emoji. So despite having 19 attempts

on goals, 70% possession, 10 corners to Newcastles won. Chelsea was sunk by Isaac Hayden's

94th minute winner at St James's Park. Easily the best goal you'll see this season scored by a player using their nose.

As we've heard, Simon, you were there for the Athletic.

Fair to say, it was a sort of familiar tale this season, one of those games where you think

if a certain E Hazard had been playing, it might have finished differently.

Yeah, I mean, it felt like one of the home games that we've seen recently

where against similarly well-organised, rather dull opposition,

Chelsea struggled to break them down.

I mean, those statistics that you referred to are quite misleading

because if you actually think back to the amount of clear-cut opportunities Chelsea had,

there were few

and far between. And it was very frustrating to watch, really. Newcastle don't blame them for

their tactics one bit because it works. You sit back, let Chelsea do all the running. And there's

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