Pod number 36 - Which makes this the Ruben Loftus-Cheek episode, being the number on his back in previous seasons for us! The lads had a lot to cover after a bit of a mad late week of Chelsea transfer news, so here are the time stamps for you… I know, we’re good to ya, right!? 2.12 - England vs Italy Euros final review - Is Southgate the one? 9.25 - Chelsea pre-season schedule, players who can turn Tuchel’s head and stake a claim. 13.15 - Young players not seeing a pathway into the first-team an...
Jul 16, 2021•41 min
Welcome back to another episode of The Si & Dan Talk Chelsea Podcast, and this week we bought in a very special guest, Sunday World reporter Kevin Palmer. Kevin is full of great stories and insights, coming off the back of a long career reporting on football, tennis, and many other sports. He started writing match day programs for the FA Cup final, he’s sat in on many early Jose Mourinho press conferences, and he’s good friends with Ricky Gervias! So as you can imagine, we have a varied show...
Jul 09, 2021•52 min
We partook in a transfer window Q&A session with you guys this week, and we managed to get through pretty much every question (25ish!). So thank you for everyone who sent us questions, which unsurprisingly were largely based around transfer news. We tried our best to give you guys the latest information on things that are going on to the very best of our own knowledge. We began with a quick chat about the Euros, then went through these questions below in this order… @CFCLex - Off topic I kno...
Jul 02, 2021•59 min
The boys are back for a Euros and Transfer news special this week, with a lot to talk about and dissect. This went down well last time, so I’ve done you guys some time stamps once again. I’m too good right!? So here is what we covered.. Euros 0.00 - 15.23 - England, Euros, predictions, reviews and thoughts so far and our standout teams and performers. Outgoings 15.50 - Billy Gilmour out on loan? 19.33 - AC Milan want Giroud, Ziyech, and Bakayoko. 23.29 - Fiorentina and Inter interested in Zappac...
Jun 25, 2021•1 hr 4 min
We were extremely lucky to be joined by former Chelsea player who made over 100 appearances for the club and scored many hugely important goals from midfield, Gavin Peacock! Gavin was brilliant and full of amazing insights, as expected. Such a humble guy with many great stories to tell. Of course, we couldn’t get anywhere near all of them in our 60 minute show, but he has just released his autobiography - A Greater Glory - From pitch to pulpit. Grab yourselves a copy right here ! You will not be...
Jun 18, 2021•1 hr 3 min
“You off to KFC after this yeah?” !! Unfortunately Gavin Peacock had to pull out at the last minute for our scheduled show this week, but he has confirmed he WILL definitely be on next week. So at the last minute, we decided to throw together a transfer special show, with SO much to talk about right now on day two of the transfer window opening. However, we have smashed out this Podcast right away for an EARLY RELEASE! I’ve also provided time stamps for the first time ever upon request of many! ...
Jun 10, 2021•55 min
We did it ladies and gents, we only went and won the bloody Champions League, and here is our Champions of Europe Follower Q&A session Podcast! We wanted to get you guys back involved for the special occasion, so we asked for your questions ahead of this show and pretty much got through them all. The show is broken up into categories based on the questions we received.. In this order - * Our Champions League final reflections * Taking questions surrounding the Champions League * N’Golo Kante...
Jun 04, 2021•58 min
We were super lucky to be joined by 90s cult hero David Lee this week. Lee, affectionately known as ‘Rodders’ was a quality centre back for Chelsea for 10 years racking up almost 200 appearances, scoring 13 goals along the way. “I was scouting at an under-17s international tournament in 2017, and Kai Havertz was the best player at the tournament by a million miles.” - Dave Lee. As you can imagine, Dave had some amazing stories going down memory lane during his playing days, including the time he...
May 28, 2021•53 min
Welcome back my people! Episode 28 (Dave) of The Si & Dan Talk Chelsea Podcast in full flow! Just the lads this week, and we’re back with another brand new feature…. Si has just got back from Stamford Bridge, so we had a lot to talk about, and a lot to cover this week… * Chelsea vs Leicester - Difference between the FA Cup final, Si’s experience at the game, meeting lots of other Chelsea fans from the Twitter community, Having fans back in the stadium, inside stories from the game, Review of...
May 22, 2021•1 hr
This week as promised, we had a very high profile and top quality guest on the show, Belgian Football Expert and European Football Correspondent for HLN - Kristof Terreur. Kristof has direct links to a number of Belgium players including the guys who played for Chelsea recently. So we obviously had a lot to ask him, and we covered.. * Chelsea vs Real Madrid, the fallout from Eden Hazard pictured laughing with Chelsea players after the game, How Eden felt after that. * Hazard’s time at Real Madri...
May 14, 2021•1 hr 13 min
This week we rode solo after having to rearrange our BIG guest, Belgian reporter from HLN Kristof Terreur, due to something at our end. However, we DO have him on next week now instead and after this weeks Eden Hazard drama, this show has just got EVEN bigger! Due to circumstances, Si and Dan decided to do this show unscripted and off the cuff, which could have gone a number of ways! But it actually turned out well, and here is what we covered… * Real Madrid win, where we watched, how we celebra...
May 08, 2021•47 min
HEEEYYY! Welcome back to the Si & Dan Talk Chelsea Podcast, Episode 25! We have decided to observe the Social Media Blackout over the weekend, as we explain more about in the Podcast. So no tweets or posts for a bit, but that just means MORE content on this site - We need somewhere to put our news still and wanted to continue with this! Anyways, this week Si and Dan covered… * Tuchel press conference, his positive words on Loftus-Cheek, and the injury updates for Fulham as well as our though...
May 01, 2021•55 min
Welcome back to The Si & Dan Talk Chelsea Podcast! This week we had a HUGE guest join us in the shape of Chelsea’s biggest YouTube content creator - George Benson! We saw it fitting to bring George in after a week of turmoil for football and for Chelsea, with George being very vocal with his propaganda against The European Super League. We covered.. * A LOT on the Super League, our reaction, fan protests, the fallouts, Chelsea’s response, and Perez the out of touch Grandad. * Brighton review...
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Wait, what? Where has The Si Phillips Talks Chelsea Podcast w/Dan McCarthy gone? Well, two reasons… * It was too much of a mouthful and takes up vital characters in tweets! * I had to get Dan more involved in the brand name - I couldn’t cope with his constant moaning and crying… ! Anyways, welcome back to another Episode of our newly named Chelsea Podcast, The Si & Dan Talk Chelsea Podcast! Just myself and Dan this week, with quite a lot of subjects to speak about, and we had a bit of our ow...
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Welcome to Episode 22 of The Si Phillips Talks Chelsea Podcast alongside a brilliant guest. We were joined by UK Rapper and massive Chelsea fan, Songer. He was a brilliant guest with so much more knowledge and views than we expected, he has already secured a place back on the show very soon. We covered… * Songer’s music, how it started, plans for the future, his musical inspirations. * Porto, Palace on Saturday, and reviewing Thomas Tuchel so far. * How Songer felt about Frank Lampard, and his d...
Apr 10, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Welcome to Episode 21 - we are flying through these now! Just Dan and Si this week to bring us out of the International break and back into the domestic football season - YES! Surprisingly we had a lot to chat about, and a bit to laugh about! We covered.. * The international break, injuries and how our boys faired. * Timo Werner’s form and current criticisms online. * England’s Euro 2020(21) chances. * Frank Lampard as England under-21 boss? * Thomas Tuchel’s entertaining press conference and te...
Apr 03, 2021•1 hr 7 min
We trialled something a little different this week on the Pod. We wanted to get some of you guys involved in the show, in a feature we will be looking to do every four weeks. As a thank you to you guys for subscribing, supporting, and joining our SPTC community here, we will be asking our greatest supporters to come on the show with us, and we will be selecting different guests each time. This week we had two of our greatest subscribers from day one one - @ClaudioDi__ and @TheScore01 ! We had a ...
Mar 26, 2021•1 hr 35 min
Welcome back to another episode of The Si Phillips Talks Chelsea Podcast with Dan McCarthy, Episode 19! We had our guest reschedule for next week unfortunately, but he will be on next week and you won’t want to miss that - We have a top Football agent coming on! Si and Dan rode it solo, but we had you covered as always! * BIG Atletico Madrid review! * Dan delivers some inside info on the Tammy Abraham situation * Are Chelsea REALLY interested in signing Sergio Aguero? * Rudiger’s stance on his n...
Mar 19, 2021•56 min
We were lucky enough to be joined by ITV’s star of Quiz Show ‘The Chase’ Shaun Wallace on the Podcast for a totally surprise BONUS episode today! Shaun is a MASSIVE Chelsea fan and is as ever full of brilliant stories of his time supporting the club, in his second time on our Podcast. We can also proudly announce that Shaun will now be joining us as a regular guest once a month on the show. It was a perfect time to bring Shaun back on having just played Dirty Leeds, we chatted a bit about that a...
Mar 15, 2021•47 min
Just Dan and Si this week for a discussion episode, and there was A LOT to cover! We go through… * Happy Birthday Chelsea - 116 years old - Our first experiences of supporting the club we adore. * Thomas Tuchel’s 11 games unbeaten and so far so good - A break down of what is going well right now. * Look ahead to a historic fixture against Dirty Leeds this weekend! Our predicted line ups. * Timo Werner missing too many chances? Kai Havertz in the false 9 to continue? * The centre back conundrum -...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 20 min
This week we were joined by yet another A-List guest in the sideline reporter for the NBA Champions Los Angeles Lakers - Mike Trudell Dan and Mike took their typical off-air banter onto the audio pitch this week. Unfortunately Simon was left out the match day squad due to personal reasons, he is at home safely recovering and will be back next week! *Apologies for a few connections issues during the show. We covered… * Mike’s journey as a journalist and how he got to work with the Los Angeles Lak...
Mar 04, 2021•1 hr 20 min
This week we were joined by a gold standard quality guest - the Father of our own midfielder Mason Mount! It goes without saying that Tony delivered some top top content for us, with some really interesting insights and opinions on Mason and more. *Apologies for a few connections issues during the show. We covered… * Mason’s performances this season compared to last, and what Tony thinks his best position is. * Can he play in a double pivot? * How has the transition between Frank Lampard and Tho...
Feb 26, 2021•1 hr 1 min
One week with a great guest, next week just myself and Dan - this week it was the latter! We decided to do a bumper follower Q&A as these always gain a good balance of interesting content! We covered.. Transfer News - A look a the CB pursuit extensively - Sule, Skriniar, Konate, Koulibaly, Gimenez, Alaba and Boateng. Delivered some small bits of exclusive updates on what we know about our Erling Haaland pursuit. Looked back at Newcastle and ahead to Southampton on Saturday. Do the likes of Z...
Feb 19, 2021•1 hr 12 min
BIG BIG Guest for you guys this week - The World’s first Chaser, the Dark Destroyer from ITV’s The Chase - Shaun Wallace! Shaun is a MASSIVE Chelsea fans and supported the club through the 70s, 80s, 90, right up to the present day. We asked Shaun about his career as a Barrister, his time on The Chase, being ‘famous’, Chelsea in the 70s, and then of course plenty of talk about the present day, his thoughts on Frank Lampard, Thomas Tuchel and the present squad! Thanks for listening guys, and pleas...
Feb 12, 2021•55 min
Welcome to Episode 12 of The Si Phillips Talks Chelsea Podcast! This week it was just myself and Dan, but we will be looking to have guests every other week for a nice balance, and next week we have another big guest! We discussed - * The fallout of the Lampard sacking and behind the scenes with the board and their trail of thoughts. * Collectively pulling forward with Thomas Tuchel, what to expect from him, and what the board are expecting. * Tuchel’s summer plans - Departures and arrivals? Dec...
Feb 04, 2021•1 hr 16 min
BIG special guest this week - Transfer Guru Fabrizio Romano joined us to talk about Chelsea transfers, Lampard sacking, and the hiring of Thomas Tuchel! We get all the juicy info on.. * Why Chelsea sacked Frank Lampard and when the decision was made? * Howe long was a deal being worked on for Thomas Tuchel and what can we expect from him? Board expectations? * Dressing room unrest? * Any late departures or arrivals at Chelsea for January? Gilmour? Emerson? * Summer transfer window, which positio...
Jan 29, 2021•33 min
Welcome to Episode 10 of The Si Phillips Talks Chelsea Podcast with Dan McCarthy! This week we bought in transfer insider Dean Jones, who has worked for a host of different publications including Eurosport and BR Football most recently. Dean provides us with some great insights on the following.. * Frank Lampard situation, will he stay or will he go? * If Lampard is sacked, who replaces him? * Chelsea’s summer signings Lampard’s picks or the board’s choices? * How Dean got involved in Journalism...
Jan 22, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Unfortunately for the second week in a row we had a guest pull out at the last minute, so you guys are stuck with us again this week! We decided to schedule a last minute bumper follower Q&A session, and actually ended up having about 50 odd questions! Thank you all to those who sent in questions, we got through pretty much all of them, but apologies to those we didn’t reach. So as you can imagine, we covered A LOT! Here is just a bit… Tomori, Alonso, Jorginho, Kepa, Caballero, CBs, Guehi, S...
Jan 15, 2021•1 hr 14 min
So Dan decided to throw two Podcasts in one here! We usually do either a discussion session between ourselves, a guest show, or a Q&A. I had the schedule all setup for a discussion session, and Dan decided to throw in an extra treat (or not) and stick a Q&A session in on the end! Now this is fine, I love to interact with our Chelsea family…. I just hope we managed to keep you all listening until the end… “Picking the three best questions to answer,” says Dan as he proceeds to ask pretty ...
Jan 08, 2021•1 hr 37 min
No guests this week, no Q&As - we needed this time to vent, dissect, and address the current situation off the back of some poor form. We give our views on Lampard in/Lampard out. Dissect the Arsenal and Villa matches. Look ahead to Manchester City on Sunday. Discuss formation and personnel changes. Ziyech/Odoi in the 10? Addressing Cross and hope! Confidence and mentality within the squad. Why is Lampard so hated? Deserves respect at the very least, but not immune from criticism. Mentions o...
Dec 31, 2020•1 hr 7 min
