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Simon Johnson

Simon Johnson

Chelsea correspondent for The Athletic and regular talkSPORT contributor, covering Chelsea FC since 2000.

Oct 21, 2026

30:47
They'll be trying to wind up any situation they can to get the referee to make any kind of decision, which is likely to get to Jose Mourinho even more.
30:56
Yeah, quite possibly, although Liverpool may have suffered the setback in that one of the biggest agitators on the pitch, Diego Costa, might not be there because he went to hospital due to a rib injury.
31:09
So there's one guy down in terms of someone that they would have targeted to wind up.
31:15
I just think Liverpool can, despite, yeah, OK, they've yet to win on the clock, but they're going to be in a far better mood than Chelsea are, especially given the way that they lost this evening, despite a reasonable performance.
31:30
And, of course, Eden Hazard, once again...
31:33
Missing another penalty.
31:35
He just looks short of confident.
33:42
What injuries has he sustained? Great.
8:33
What did you make of his conversations and the things he wrote in his autobiography as well about his move from Arsenal to Chelsea?
8:39
I think football fans, you can totally understand the initial reaction of...
8:43
And look, they were ill-advised comments.
8:45
I mean, it's a great copy for his book.
8:47
I mean, great publicity for his book.
8:49
But you can understand why Arsenal fans are sort of going, hang on a minute, you know, that's an extraordinary amount of money.
8:54
Why are you so upset? But that's because we're thinking of it as mere mortals.

33 MINS LATER

41:47
And whatever Arsenal's grievances with Ashley Cole over the transfer, there are still a lot of fond memories of what he accomplished as a player.

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