What would Simon Johnson do?
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
4.9 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Not a bad way to ring in your 50th game in charge...
Simon Johnson and Dom Fifield are alongside Matt Davies-Adams to look back on the commanding 4-0 win over Juventus as Chelsea confirmed their progression to the last 16 of the Champions League.
Attention then turns to Sunday's visit of Manchester United - with The Athletic's Adam Crafton joining us with the latest on a tumultuous week for the club following the departure of Ole Gunnar Solskjær.
Plus, Matt suspects foul play as the latest Thursday quiz causes shock and awe...
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | It's straight out of the Cobham, a show about Chelsea from The Athletic. |
| 0:14.8 | On this episode, For some blues dismantle Juventus, we riff on Man United's |
| 0:19.4 | Pain ahead of Sunday, and plenty more |
| 0:21.5 | besides. Available for free wherever you get your podcasts and add free on the athletic, this is |
| 0:26.1 | Straight Outer Cobb. |
| 0:33.3 | Here we are again then, listener. It's Thursday for us, which means it's time for your second |
| 0:37.8 | weekly dose of Straight Out of Cobbock. Joining me for this episode, please welcome. Simon Johnson. |
| 0:43.5 | Hello. Looking forward to the quiz later. Hello. Also with us is Dominic Fyfield. Hi, Dom. |
| 0:52.9 | Hi, Matt. How are you doing? I'm all right, thanks. |
| 0:55.9 | Right, to celebrate Black Friday, you can now take advantage of our best deal of the year. You can subscribe to the Athletic for a special price of just a pound a month for a full 12 months. But hurry, the offer ends at midnight on Monday. That's November the 29. You'll enjoy great analysis and in-depth features from the very |
| 1:11.8 | best football writers around as well as ad-free versions of all of our podcasts. Simon, pick an |
| 1:18.1 | article, please, that you've written over the last year or so, that it's one that you're |
| 1:22.0 | particularly proud of that might drive people to take advantage of this magnificent deal. |
| 1:27.7 | Well, there's so many, but I just think it's kind of reflective of where Chelsea are right now, |
| 1:38.6 | what a great season they're having, that the seeds were sown with Tuchel's preseason, |
| 1:43.5 | and I wrote about an in-depth article with Raph Hunningstein about how he approached his |
| 1:49.5 | first pre-season as Chelsea coach, the message he sent to the players, how he inspired them, |
| 1:55.7 | how he prepared for this season. |
| 1:57.3 | And we've seen the fruits of his labours now. |
| 1:59.1 | And that's the kind of in-depth read that |
| 2:01.8 | no one else of we like to think no one else does in the kind of detail that we do and the |
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