Losing to bottom of League One Port Vale in the FA Cup would be unthinkable... right!?
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Anyone else want to speak out in the press?
Matt Davies-Adams has got Cerys Jones and Luke Bosher for company as we return from a short international break of our own to look ahead to the return to action of the men's team.
But we begin with disappointment in the UWCL for CFCW - 1-0 winners on the night against Arsenal but knocked out of the competition at the quarter-final stage 3-2 on aggregate... no thanks to some of the officiating on show.
Then - we turn our attention to the visit of bottom of League One Port Vale in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup. They couldn't do a Bradford - could they?!
Plus - more news of a financial variety as the club announce the biggest pre-tax loss in Premier League history... winning something at least, eh?!
We'll be back on Monday to look back on the visit of the Valiants - and surely be celebrating safe passage to an FA Cup semi-final?!
HOST: Matt Davies-Adams
WITH: Cerys Jones and Luke Bosher
PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | It's Chelsea |
| 0:06.5 | Chelsea! |
| 0:08.8 | Chelsea! |
| 0:10.8 | Chelsea! |
| 0:11.3 | It's Trade Town to Cobham, |
| 0:16.6 | a show about Chelsea FC from the Athletic. |
| 0:18.9 | Coming up, Champions League heartbreak at the bridge again. |
| 0:22.3 | Dad, what's a port fail? |
| 0:24.2 | Cuckoo's controversial comments and a quite spectacular amount of money lost. |
| 0:29.0 | Ready to manage the absolute worst league one has to offer. |
| 0:32.3 | This is straight out of Cobham. |
| 0:36.5 | And we're back with you after our short pause, looking ahead, reflecting all the news in the world of Chelsea. |
| 0:42.7 | And let's face it, there's always plenty of it. |
| 0:44.3 | It's me, Matt, I'm here with two of the athletics's very finest. |
| 0:47.8 | Hello, Luke Bocha. |
| 0:49.1 | Hello, Matt. |
| 0:49.7 | I feel like it's been a while since I've been on. |
| 0:51.7 | I've been podcasting at Uxbridge instead. I'm not through my absence. Right. Okay. Well, we're glad to have you back on board. Kerris James is with us too. How are you doing, Kerris? Good. Thank you. Late one for Kerriss and I, because we were at Stanford Bridge on Wednesday watching the women's team. We will get to that shortly, but as you know, we like to kick off with our premature adjudications. |
| 1:14.6 | It's where we make a wild speculative punt about something that's going to happen |
| 1:18.6 | in the near or distant future relating to the world of Chelsea Football Club. |
| 1:23.2 | Luke, what you got for me today, please? |
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