1905: The Chelsea FC Podcast

Chelsea v Spurs Preview | Step Up

Mike Penders gets his chance against Spurs on Saturday night, with Emi Martinez out and the Chelsea number one shirt there to be taken. Chris and Joe measure him agains

160. Everton 0–2 Chelsea | Grown Up

Chelsea grow up at Everton: a 2-0 win that ends the hosts’ unbeaten start and delivers a first league clean sheet in nine months. Pedro Neto’s second-half brace takes t

Everton v Chelsea Preview | Overdue

Chelsea haven’t scored at Everton since a Jorginho penalty in August 2022, and last March’s 3-0 at the Hill Dickinson Stadium didn’t help the mood. After the 5-1 Bournem

Chelsea 5–1 Bournemouth | The Hendo Show

Jordan Henderson, 36, scores twice on his home debut as Chelsea beat Bournemouth 5-1 at Stamford Bridge. A right-foot finish off the post and a free kick into the top cor

Chelsea v Bournemouth Preview | 22 Days Later

After 22 days without a game, Chelsea are finally back, and Bournemouth at Stamford Bridge feels like a must-win for Xabi Alonso. Moisés Caicedo is training again, João

Asterisk *

Man City's sham contracts of £830m might be the biggest football story of our time. We ask what it means for Chelsea: how we feel about it, how it compares with our own c

Brentford 3–0 Chelsea | 22 Days

22 days to sit on Brentford 3-0 Chelsea, 22 days for Xabi Alonso to find a plan B, 22 days to restart the season. A perfectly decent first half unravels when Jaidon Anth

Brentford v Chelsea Preview | The Fix

Chris and Joe reveal their fix for Chelsea's leaky defence ahead of Friday night's trip to Brentford — chasing a first league win at the Gtech since Ben Chilwell's solita

Chelsea 2–2 Hull City | Schoolboy

Chelsea's defending against Hull City wasn't just bad — it was schoolboy stuff, the kind you'd bench a nine-year-old for. A 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge that should've bee

Chelsea 6–3 Leeds | Madness

Chelsea's night at Stamford Bridge goes from disaster to delirium — 2-0 down to Leeds United inside 48 minutes, then six goals in a second-half spell Chelsea fans won't f

Arsenal 2–1 Chelsea | Ouch

"Ain't that a kick in the head," goes the famous Dean Martin song — and Chelsea fans were asking exactly that after Gabriel caught Emiliano Martinez flush in the face ins

Arsenal v Chelsea Preview | 1st Test

Tammy Abraham's winner in 2019. Romelu Lukaku's second homecoming in 2021. You have to go back to a different era for Chelsea's last wins at The Emirates. Could Sunday be

Chelsea 4–3 Brighton | Entertainers

Chelsea are many things right now, but boring isn't one of them. Chelsea's centre-backs played more diagonal balls than five-yard passes at the weekend, and that's the

Chelsea 2–0 Luton | Rebuild

One game was all it took. Xabi Alonso watched Robert Sánchez against Fulham and Chelsea signed Emiliano Martínez three days later — £7.5m, two years, mentality monster, n

Fulham 2–3 Chelsea | 31 Seconds

31 seconds. That's all it took for the Xabi Alonso era to get started. Chris and Joe are buzzing after Chelsea's breathless 3-2 win at Fulham, with Cole Palmer back to

Fulham v Chelsea Preview | Fear Factor

Xabi Alonso wants Chelsea to put fear back into the Premier League — and Monday night at Craven Cottage is where that starts. Chris and Joe preview the season opener, p

The 2026/27 Chelsea Season Preview

There's a real buzz around Chelsea heading into 2026/27 — Chris and Joe call it the most open Premier League in years. Xabi Alonso's aura alone has lifted the mood among

Dark Horses?

Xabi Alonso has two unsolved problems going into the season — goalkeeper and central midfield — and Chris and Joe work through why neither gets fixed by the transfer busi

Chelsea Pensioners

Chelsea have signed two grandads — and somehow it feels exactly right. Danny Welbeck and Jordan Henderson arrive with 71 years of experience between them, the grown-ups

Talking Tactics

The tingles are back. Chelsea just dropped £117m on Morgan Rogers, prised from under Arsenal's nose, and suddenly a squad still recovering from 10th place feels like one