Seb Stafford-Bloor

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474 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 14 Sep

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Can Chelsea's attack sustain a title challenge? · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

They were not great, but they were competent.

They did some nice things.

I think most fans would say uh the technical level in the middle of the team support.

supply possession, th these things have improved and they're moving the ball in a in a better way than they were.

But I think you saw

The first goal goes in, really well taken from Anthony Alango.

It's kind of avoidable.

And then all of a sudden, uh, you can see a bit of creeping doubt and a bit of panic.

And you can hear in the crowd too.

Um, I've never played professional football, but I'm sure Rob would say when a crowd's nervous, you could probably sense it.

And you've got that feeling.

You can't import that.

I think you have to correct it by remembering what it's like to win, remembering what it's like also to overcome adversity.

So to come from behind in a game, to deal with uh a bad decision, or in my opinion, a bad decision, the failure to give a give a penalty uh for the challenge on Oman Wammoosh.

And the players just need to get through this and you can't you can't just buy a player and fix it like that.

feels also like when you make those mentality signings and Andy Robertson, you can bring him in, but then your social structures probably needed a bit of time to develop because okay, so someone like that's come in, he's won the Premier League, he's won a European Cup, he's hugely experienced, he sees something in the environment he doesn't like, let's not do that.

Those kind of things, those corrections, whether it's a football club, an office, uh a school, whatever, it takes time for people to

kind of adapt their behaviors and for uh the impact of someone like that to uh to to be felt.

I also think

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