Alistair Bruce-Ball

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Football Daily · The Commentators' View: Moments of the season · 13 May 2026 podcast

But obviously in the previous two seasons, we'd seen the three teams who came up go straight back down.

So that's obviously a big talking point at the start of any Premier League season.

Are we going to get into this sort of yo-yo effect where it's very difficult for any promoted club to stay up?

But I think also it was the way they did it.

What I really enjoyed about that winning goal was our commentary position at Stamford Bridge.

We are way up in the gods and you get a really good view of the pattern of play.

And Regis Lebris had brought on Brian Brobbey, giant centre forward, who was doing lots of that sort of hold-up play and then just feeding it off to the runners.

And Talby was one of the runners who made the run.

But it was one of those goals where you could see what was coming, so you could sort of build to it.

And I was thinking in my head, I can see Talby making that run.

If Brobbey plays the ball in the right spot, I think we're going to get a late winner here.

And I think it just sort of helps you kind of go...

go with the moment so um yeah it stood out for me stood out for me and Enzo Maresca was still in charge there and the good thing is for Chelsea that having changed manager everything's much more stable now well do you know what I mean that that's why the win was more impressive for Sunderland I think because that was Chelsea under Maresca had Chelsea won the game that day in fact I'd been at Stamford Bridge on the Wednesday night and they just put five past Ajax in the Champions League

And their last two Premier League games, they'd beaten Liverpool and won at Nottingham Forest.

So that was actually Chelsea who were going quite well.

And I think the other thing with Sunderland there was, I think at that point they'd beaten West Ham at home.

They'd beaten Wolves at home.

They'd beaten Brentford at home.

And obviously Brentford have gone on to have a tremendous season.

But I don't think people quite recognise that as a sort of statement win, big scalp.

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