Why can't Chelsea put together a complete performance? And what's going on at CFCW?
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
4.9 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Oh Cole, it was harder to miss...
Matt Davies-Adams has Luke Bosher and Liam Twomey for company to look back on Tuesday night's 2-2 draw with Leeds and Stamford Bridge.
The scoreline certainly doesn't tell the whole story - with the Blues throwing away a two-goal lead in farcical fashion to be held by Daniel Farke's side - and Cole Palmer missing an open goal! Simon Johnson sends in his thoughts from the press box on a frustrating evening and what feels like an opportunity missed.
Attention then turns to the FA Cup and the long trip to face Championship promotion hopefuls Hull City on Friday night. We look ahead to that game as Liam Rosenior makes his return to the side he played for and managed.
Elsewhere - there was big breaking news out of Chelsea Women on Monday evening, when it was announced that head of women's football Paul Green is leaving the club after 13 years. You can read the deep-dive on The Athletic - but women's football writer Megan Feringa joins us for the inside scoop on how the news has been received - and what it means for the club going forward.
We'll be back on Monday to look back on the visit to Hull - and rejoice in a free midweek without any football to hopefully rest the weary bodies!
- Read - Chelsea Women in crisis: A critical exit, player confusion and the role of the men’s sporting directors
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HOST: Matt Davies-Adams
WITH: Luke Bosher, Liam Twomey and Megan Feringa
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, losing leads against Leads. |
| 0:22.5 | We'll analyse some baffling, defending, |
| 0:23.6 | a miss for the ages, |
| 0:25.6 | and an hour of actually pretty decent football. |
| 0:26.9 | There's a whole preview and news of upheaval behind the scenes at CFCW. |
| 0:31.6 | Twice a week every week, |
| 0:32.8 | the highest rated show on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:35.4 | This is straight out of Cobham. |
| 0:36.6 | This is straight out of Cobham. |
| 0:46.4 | And we've got loads to talk about today on our second show of the week coming at you on a Wednesday for the second week in a row so that we can react with relative freshness |
| 0:50.6 | to what happened at the bridge. On Tuesday night. We've also got lots to discuss |
| 0:55.2 | as pertains to the women's team. Megan Fringer will be joining us later for that. For now, though, |
| 1:00.9 | I've got two of my podcasting pals with me. Liam Toomey's on board. How are you doing, Liam? |
| 1:06.4 | Yeah, good, good, good. Just kind of processing more, more drop points in the Premier League. |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah, well, at least we haven't got to deal with another manager exit fallout |
| 1:16.7 | like a certain London base club do today. |
| 1:19.9 | Luke Boucher will have been all over that on the Athletics Newsdesk this morning. |
| 1:23.3 | Glad for a break and to talk about something slightly more cheery, Luke. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm still buoyed by watching Axel Dizazi in his prime last night, Matt. |
| 1:33.6 | I don't know what else you're referring to, but that's been keeping me going for the past 18 hours. |
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