Will an unacceptably dire night in Brighton spell the end for Rosenior at Chelsea?
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
What were you doing in 1912?
Matt Davies-Adams, Cerys Jones and Liam Twomey jump aboard the pretty downbeat party bus for a look back on the 3-0 defeat at Brighton which condemns Chelsea to their fifth straight Premier League defeat without scoring.
We get into Liam Rosenior's pointed post-match comments, the bizarre formation, the totally inept performance across the board - and what this latest low means for Rosenior's future and the fate of the rest of the season.
So - what chances of beating a confident, in-form Leeds United at Wembley on Sunday afternoon? Spoiler alert... not very high by our estimations!
Then - the good news keeps coming - with The Athletic's Football Finance Writer Chris Weatherspoon with us for a closer look at his comprehensive piece - 'Exploring BlueCo’s finances and its massive bet on Chelsea'.
Plus - CFCW have a new official home for the next WSL season... Stamford Bridge!
We'll be back on Monday (barring any news in the meantime...) to look back on Sunday's semi-final with Leeds - where Chelsea might have somehow booked their place in the FA Cup final!?
- Read Chris's deep dive into BlueCo's finances
- Read Liam's post-match post-mortem
- Read Conor O'Neill's of Chelsea's 'muddled tactics' under Rosenior
HOST: Matt Davies-Adams
WITH: Liam Twomey, Cerys Jones & Chris Weatherspoon
PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | It's |
| 0:04.2 | Chelsea |
| 0:06.5 | Chelsea |
| 0:08.2 | Chelsea |
| 0:09.0 | Chelsea |
| 0:10.2 | Chelsea |
| 0:11.1 | It's straight out of Cobham |
| 0:16.5 | A show about Chelsea FC |
| 0:17.7 | from the Athletic |
| 0:18.6 | Coming up |
| 0:19.3 | battered by Brighton |
| 0:20.5 | frightening financials and an FA Cup semi-final. |
| 0:24.1 | Desperately hoping that that was the Nadia, this is straight out to Cobham. |
| 0:31.4 | Oh dear, dear. |
| 0:32.4 | Well, that was not much fun on the South Coast on Tuesday night for Chelsea. |
| 0:36.4 | We've got so much to get through today. And not much of it is good news, I'll be honest with you, but we'll try and find some levity as and where we can. I've got two of the athletics, Chelsea experts with me. Liam Toomey was at the Amex on Tuesday night. You okay, Liam? Yep, just about thawed out. Yes, not as warm as it looks in the United |
| 0:55.3 | Kingdom at the moment. And Kerris changes back with us to you, okay, Kerris? Fine. Wasn't freezing |
| 1:00.9 | myself last night at the Amex, but was covering the game from home, so just slightly removed from |
| 1:05.8 | the misery. Well, we'll always have that opening 90 seconds or so, although even that wasn't particularly great. |
| 1:12.5 | All right, before we get stuck into it, let me remind you that you can find us on X and Blue Sky at SOCOMBod. |
| 1:17.3 | Email the show, sOC at theathletic.com. |
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