Seb Stafford-Bloor

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

Seb Stafford-Bloor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

And that's kind of it's like a a very, very long mass equation which determines how you take the opportunity, which side of the goalkeeper you go

go to all the things he's noticing in his peripheral vision.

He also said he trains a lot with mannequins because, you know, as Rob just said, like the game happens so quickly that often when you come to take a chance, you don't know who the defender is.

You just have the the shape of a defender in your in your in your in the side of your your your your periphery.

And so you're kind of your what kind of finish am I?

What can what kind of angle can I

defender take away?

What does a goalkeeper not want to face?

And it was

Yeah, it was like sitting with a a chess grandmaster.

Right.

All these things that are happening and you're thinking, Oh, I can I can barely like make a phone call and type at the same time.

So how are you doing?

How are you doing this?

But it he was very he was very gracious with his time and he was yeah, it was a delight to speak to.

Yeah, he's he's almost a little bit amused by the reaction to it in the current day because he said when I was an academy player, I played in midfield a lot, so I understand those areas of the pitch.

He also said in the interview, you know, when I well when I was an academy player and I was in the youth teams, I would arrive to training an hour early.

Me and a teammate would just stand on opposite sides of the penalty box and right foot, left foot, right foot, driven past, floated past, chilled.

shit pass cut, you know, through the back of the ball.

Um because I'd always thought I've watched him from kind of year zero at Spurs, and the the different parts of his passing game seem to have been added over time because he's always had that big driven crossfield.

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