Will Mount Ever Get A Rest, The Tomori Mystery & Hudson-Odoi's BACK
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
4.9 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Host Matt Davies-Adams & The Athletic's Chelsea experts, Liam Twomey, Simon Johnson & Dominic Fifield, reconvene after Lampard fielded an unusually strong side to overcome Morecambe in the FA Cup third round...
What's Mason Mount got to do to get a rest? And how to explain what's happened to Fikayo Tomori's Chelsea career?
Plus, the guys discuss the now-postponed Premier League meeting with Fulham; Ruben Loftus-Cheek's loan, Callum Hudson-Odoi's return to form and N'Golo Kante's suspension.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Straight Out of Cobham, the Chelsea FC podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:13.6 | Every week we pour over all the big news and notes as regards to the Blues in the company of the Athletics Chelsea experts. |
| 0:20.2 | This week we're reflecting on a cup win against Morecam, |
| 0:23.0 | looking ahead to a Derby date with Fulham |
| 0:24.8 | and enjoying a winning return to action for the women's team. |
| 0:28.6 | Available for free, wherever you get your podcasts |
| 0:30.4 | and ad free on The Athletic, this is straight out of Cobham. |
| 0:37.8 | Hello listener Matt Davis Adams, back in your ears to talk you through another week in the life of Chelsea Football Club. |
| 0:43.4 | I'll need some experts, or failing that, the three men who complete the starting lineup for this show. |
| 0:47.8 | Dominic Fyfield is one search individual. Hi, Dom. |
| 0:50.4 | Hey, Matt, how you doing? |
| 0:51.8 | All right, thank you. Liam Toomey's also with us. How are you doing, Liam? I'm very good. Hello. And who could forget the great Simon Johnson? You okay, Simon? Sorry, who are you talking about? Hello. Hello. So on Sunday, Chelsea made it through to the fourth round of the FA Cup for the 23rd consecutive season. Not sure enough |
| 1:11.6 | has been made of just how astonishing that is. Anyway, Morkham of League 2 didn't put up too |
| 1:16.1 | much resistance. Chelsea's 4-0 win, ticking lots of boxes for under pressure boss, Frank Lampard. |
| 1:21.5 | Progress to the next round, tick, clean sheet, tick, goals for underperforming players, |
| 1:25.9 | double tick, you get the idea. |
| 1:36.4 | Here's a question from Adit, who's tweeted the show to ask, didn't the starting 11 have more to do with Lampard's job being on the line than building confidence in the players? |
| 1:39.5 | What were your initial thoughts on seeing the team sheet? |
| 1:47.3 | Simon, you were at Stanford Bridge, so you would have seen that team sheet first. It was a bit of a surprise, particularly that there was only one academy player on the bench. |
| 1:53.7 | I think the only surprise was the bench and how strong the bench was. I thought, given that there was nine subs available to Lampard that only have Tino Anjuring on there, |
| 2:00.4 | and of course he wasn't the one |
| 2:01.9 | that people were talking about ahead of the game anyway. It's the likes of Liveramento and |
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