McFarlane's Blues pick up impressive point at City ahead of Fulham & Charlton games
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Not bad for your first senior game in charge...
Matt Davies-Adams has Cerys Jones and Sam Parkin along for the ride as we look back on the hugely creditable 1-1 draw at Manchester City on Sunday evening.
Simon's on hand with his reflections on the final whistle from inside the Etihad - as we praise Calum McFarlane's tactical tweaks, the spirit showed by the team to come back into the game - and what it's like for a player in such a bizarre week at the club.
We discuss next steps - with Liam Rosenior reportedly in London to finalise details to become the new head coach. Will he be involved in the preparations ahead of Fulham on Wednesday night? We preview that game *and* Saturday's trip to Charlton in the 3rd round of the FA Cup!
We'll be back on Monday to reflect on the matches against Fulham and Charlton - plus a look ahead to the visit of Arsenal in the League Cup semi-final first leg!
HOST: Matt Davies-Adams
WITH: Cerys Jones & Sam Parkin
PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | It's |
| 0:04.0 | Chelsea |
| 0:06.5 | Chelsea! |
| 0:07.8 | Chelsea! |
| 0:08.7 | Chelsea! |
| 0:09.1 | Chelsea! |
| 0:10.8 | Chelsea! |
| 0:12.9 | It's straight out of common. |
| 0:16.6 | A show about Chelsea FC from the Athletic. |
| 0:18.7 | Coming up, |
| 0:19.3 | McFarlane Masterclass means all's well that ends, oh well, |
| 0:22.6 | Liam lands in London, full them in focus, |
| 0:24.9 | and my annual opportunity to refer to the FA Cup by its full name. |
| 0:29.0 | The highest rated show on the Athletic Podcast Network, |
| 0:31.4 | this is straight out of common. |
| 0:36.1 | And it is, of course, the Football Association Challenge Cup. More on that later. Well, I don't know about you, listener, but I totally saw that point at the Etihad come in. We're going to discuss that. We're going to look ahead to Fulham, chat a bit of Resinia, some residual Moreska F.A. Cup. It's all going on today, basically, joining me to do all that. I have the athletics. Kerris Jones. |
| 0:54.7 | How are you doing Kerris? I'm good. And a first Monday back in January, Sam Parking. It's one of |
| 1:02.0 | my favourite days of the year this because everybody who doesn't work football is feeling glum and we can |
| 1:06.2 | laugh at them. I'm just taking the tree down actually. That was a bit depressing. I don't think the kids minded too much. |
| 1:12.6 | Full disclosure, I text you at 525 yesterday afternoon saying, |
| 1:18.7 | probably take the 3-0 defeat here, wouldn't we? |
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