Yet more dropped points (and red cards) in calamitous Burnley draw
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
19 points dropped... NINETEEN POINTS!
Matt Davies-Adams is joined by two of The Athletic's finest - Simon Johnson and Liam Twomey - to look back on the shocker of a 1-1 draw with Burnley at Stamford Bridge on Saturday afternoon.
We discuss the overall poor level of performance, the defensive substitutions and the mistakes that this team just don't seem to be learning from week in, week out.
Elsewhere, new shirt sponsor alert! We're only seven months into the season - but we've got an IFS.ai update - and why the club aren't in a rush to secure a long-term front of shirt partner...
As we've said so often in the past - thank goodness for CFCW! It wasn't pretty - but they booked their place in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup thanks to a 2-1 win over Manchester United AET. Cerys was there and sent her thoughts on what could prove to be a crucial victory to set the tone for the rest of the season.
HOST: Matt Davies-Adams
WITH: Simon Johnson and Liam Twomey
PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | It's |
| 0:04.0 | Chelsea |
| 0:06.5 | Chelsea |
| 0:08.2 | Chelsea! |
| 0:10.9 | Chelsea! |
| 0:14.9 | It's straight out of Cobham, a show about Chelsea FC from the Athletic. |
| 0:18.8 | Coming up. |
| 0:20.0 | Oh, for... |
| 0:20.6 | Really? Drop points again. Oh, really? |
| 0:21.5 | Drop points again? |
| 0:22.9 | Oh, and another red card, great. |
| 0:24.8 | Still, Juel Pedro, though. |
| 0:26.2 | And the women's team's revival continues as they prove they're up for the cup. |
| 0:30.5 | The podcast that set fire to the Athletic FCs network, |
| 0:33.7 | but in a good way, this is straight out of Cobham. |
| 0:47.7 | And it's another Monday show for us. And we got the OG lineup at Don Fyfield permitting, |
| 0:56.9 | Simon Johnson and Liam Toomey, both back with me for this one. Liam, how triggering was it for you to be in that post-match press conference and hear about missed assignments? |
| 0:58.6 | I thought of every journalist at that point. |
| 1:01.5 | Yeah, a small shudder went through me. |
| 1:04.5 | Although not quite as much as if I'd had the immediate on the whistle deadline. |
| 1:08.3 | Thankfully, Simon took that for the game. |
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