Sanctions, huddles, injuries, defeats - and mounting concerns over Chelsea's season
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
4.9 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Respectfully...
Matt Davies-Adams is joined by the SOC OG's Simon Johnson and Liam Twomey for a look back at events at Stamford Bridge on Saturday as Chelsea's top five hopes were dealt another blow.
But we begin with a double dose of bad breaking news to come out of the club on Monday - with Reece James injured and the club handed a suspended one-year ban from signing first-team players and given a £10million fine from the Premier League relating to breaches of financial rules during Roman Abramovich’s time as owner.
If that wasn't fun enough - we get stuchin into the farcical pre-match huddle situation - before finally focusing on the lowlights of the 1-0 defeat by Newcastle.
Things don't get much easier - with PSG in town on Tuesday with the unenviable task of trying to overcome a 5-2 deficit.
As has so often been the case in the past - thank goodness for CFCW! They picked up their first silverware of the season thanks to the 2-0 League Cup final victory over Manchester United.
We'll be back on Wednesday to look back on the miracle against PSG????! And a look ahead to Saturday evening's trip to Everton... and any other bad news that wants to darken our door in the meantime!
HOST: Matt Davies-Adams
WITH: Simon Johnson and Liam Twomey
PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | It's Chelsea |
| 0:06.5 | Chelsea |
| 0:08.2 | Chelsea! |
| 0:10.9 | Chelsea! |
| 0:14.9 | It's straight out to Cobham, a show about Chelsea FC from the Athletic. |
| 0:18.9 | Coming up, |
| 0:19.7 | mediocrity against the magpie's, trying to make a case for a comeback in Europe. |
| 0:24.1 | And God bless those Chelsea women, the first piece of silverware of this season is secured. |
| 0:29.5 | Standing stoically in the middle of the huddle whilst respecting the ball, this is straight out of carbon. |
| 0:42.9 | Respecting the ball. |
| 0:45.8 | Well done for joining us, listener. |
| 0:47.2 | If you're anything like me, |
| 0:48.0 | which clearly you want. |
| 0:50.7 | You just want to stay away from any football content this week because your team let you down badly over the weekend. |
| 0:53.9 | But we are here. We're going |
| 0:54.9 | to talk about Chelsea as ever. There's loads for us to get through today and I've got the OG crew |
| 0:59.8 | with me to do it. Hello, Liam, Timi. Hello. I have never knowingly disrespected the ball. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, it's difficult to respect or disrespect in an animate object, but maybe we'll talk more about that. |
| 1:10.8 | Simon Johnson's with us too. Yeah, OK, Simon? I just wish someone would want to do a huddle with me, but a huddle of one just doesn't seem to have the same impact. No, I tell you why I'd be doing it with you, and that's Paul Tierney. I'm sure that's the last thing you ever wanted to do. Hey, we look like brothers, so, you know. SIE, if we ever managed to do SOC at the pub again, we can do a huddle around you. |
| 1:31.9 | Oh, thanks. T.B. I'll bring my whistle. |
| 1:35.7 | On that one. Right. Before we get going, let's get the admin out of the way. Remember, you can find |
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