Renewed hope for a top five finish after João Pedro's Villa Park hat-trick
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
You can't stay mad at them for long...
Matt Davies-Adams has got The Athletic's Liam Twomey and Luke Bosher with him for a look back on Wednesday night's 4-1 win at Aston Villa - to take Chelsea back to 5th in the Premier League table.
Simon Johnson sends us his post-match dispatch from the press box - before we discuss the bold decision to drop Robert Sánchez, the continuation of João Pedro's sensational form - and whether this game was proof that playing the big teams in this difficult upcoming run could actually prove to be in Chelsea's favour.
Next up - Wrexham in the FA Cup! The Athletic's Wrexham reporter Richard Sutcliffe drops by to give us the lowdown on Saturday's hosts - who are going for back-to-back-to-back-to-back promotions - and will certainly be up for the cup when they welcome a Premier League side to the Racecourse Ground - aspiring to be in the top flight with them next season.
We'll be back on Monday to discuss that fixture AND look ahead to the small matter of PSG in the Champions League round of 16 1st leg on Wednesday night!
HOST: Matt Davies-Adams
WITH: Luke Bosher, Liam Twomey & Simon Johnson
PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic F.C. |
| 0:03.3 | It's straight out of C, a coppum, a show about Chelsea FC from the Athletic. |
| 0:18.7 | Coming up, a formidable win, Juel Pedro, the hero against the villains, |
| 0:22.9 | and we'll get the lowdown on Wrexham. |
| 0:24.9 | Apparently their owners are famous. |
| 0:26.9 | Finishing with a full compliment for once, |
| 0:28.7 | this is straight out of Cobham. |
| 0:35.2 | And we're very happy to talk to you on this Thursday after such a thumping win for Chelsea at Villa Park. It's me, Matt, and I've got two of my podcasting pals alongside me. Hello, Luke Beauchette. Hello, Matt. How are you? I'm pretty good, thank you. Yes, very well indeed, in fact. Liam Timmy's here as well. Are you okay, Liam? I'm good. |
| 0:56.4 | I'm starting to realise I may need to learn the Samba. |
| 0:58.1 | Quite, yeah. |
| 1:11.1 | I'm not sure we'd be able to put it off quite as well as the main man. Before we go to our premature adjudications, let me remind you that you can contact the show. Soc at theathletic.com via email or find us on excellent blue sky at SOCob and pod. |
| 1:13.1 | We're still taking those lovely five-star reviews. |
| 1:13.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:11.7 | Apple Podcast, Spotify. theathletic.com via email or find us on excellent blue sky at so cobb and pod we're still taking those lovely five-star reviews thank you apple podcast Spotify wherever you get your pods and if you want to |
| 1:16.6 | sign up to read all of the great stuff on the athletic Chelsea and otherwise just go to the |
| 1:21.1 | athletic dot com slash chelcy pod here's a premature adjudication that's come to us on email from Tim, who says |
| 1:29.9 | premature adjudication, we finished third and win all our remaining games. I really do love the |
| 1:35.3 | oscillation between agony and ecstasy from our listeners, depending on what the result is every |
| 1:41.7 | week. Luke, what have you got for us adjudication-wise this time? |
| 1:45.6 | Mine is, it's going to be in the realms of, |
| 1:48.6 | similar to the one I think Sam Parkin did last week, |
| 1:52.9 | a couple of weeks ago. |
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