Was PSG humiliation the most damaging night of the Clearlake era?

Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show

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Sports, Chelsea News, Chelsea Fc, Soccer,, Chelsea

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Matt Davies-Adams enlists Cerys Jones and Liam Twomey for a gory-post mortem of Chelsea's 8-2 aggregate defeat by PSG in the Champions League last 16.

Simon Johnson beams in from the Stamford Bridge press box with a pretty damning assessment of what he saw in front of him on a 'horrific night' for everyone associated with the club.

Was this result breaking point for Liam Rosenior in the eyes of Chelsea fans? And will this embarrassment on the biggest stage make the club hierarchy reconsider their approach to this 'project'?

The mood is very high going into the first ever trip to the Hill Dickinson then (!) - we look ahead to that match. Plus - racking our brains for players who found the net at Goodison...

We'll be back on Monday to look back on the trip to Everton - will the Blues be heading into the international break on a much-needed high?

HOST: Matt Davies-Adams

WITH: Luke Bosher and Simon Johnson

PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva

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0:00.0	The Athletic F.C.
0:03.3	It's straight out to Cobham, a show about Chelsea FC from the Athletic.
0:18.7	Coming up.
0:19.6	Aight no way of putting a positive spin on a dismal Champions League exit.
0:24.0	Ends go, Fernandez, question mark.
0:26.2	And trying to inject some big Dickinson energy into the Premier League campaign.
0:30.6	Writing down tactical instructions when we get to the plug section at the end of the pod,
0:34.5	this is straight out of common.
0:42.6	Hi. section at the end of the pod. This is straight out of common. And it's not a particularly happy day for those of us of a Chelsea persuasion. It is Wednesday morning as we record and we are
0:50.4	doing the post-mortem on what happened last night in the Champions League ramifications. There are plenty of them, one suspects, from a pretty pathetic limp exit from the Champions League for Chelsea against Paris, Sanjamb. We'll talk about that. We'll look ahead to Everton. There's lots of other stuff on the agenda as well, Chelsea in it. But before we get there, let me give you some plugs. You can find
1:11.5	as ex and blue sky, SO CovenPod, email socat theathletic.com, and boy, do we have a lot of correspondence to get through today. We're still taking your lovely five-star reviews, Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever you get your pods. And if you want to sign up to read all the excellent work on the Athletic, just go to theathletic.com slash Chelsea Potter.
1:29.1	I did my plugs before I'd even introduce my experts.
1:31.9	That's how rattled I am by events of midweek. I got Liam Toomey back on board. How you doing,
1:36.6	Liam? All good. I thought we had our fill of Chelsea crazy stories on Monday all hitting at the same time.
1:46.8	And then obviously Tuesday night had set the tone for the rest of the week.
1:50.0	Yeah, what's going to happen between now and the time Lucy hits publish on this pod?
1:54.1	We can only speculate.
1:55.4	Kerris Jones is back with this too.
1:56.9	Kerris, you were up with the larkin exercising.
1:59.3	So you're probably full of endorphins and ready to see the positives.
2:02.7	Yeah, let's go with that. I'm quite tired. But yeah, it was a long night of football and then a long night of news after that. So, yeah, it's been a very fun week in Chelsea land and by fun, I mean sort of eventful
2:21.4	rather than actually enjoyable. Yeah, welcome to Chelsea, Kerris. You don't have to have a lot of
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