Football for Dummies by Dummies
Two american guys just chatting about (mostly) european football/soccer, with an emphasis on chelsea football club in london.
behead of them
They episode kicks off hyped (new theme song, 6:30am wake-up), but quickly lands on frustration: the Newcastle draw felt like a tale of two halves. Chelsea looked flat and unprepared in the first 45, then finally showed intensity after the break—good enough to salvage a point, but not good enough to feel satisfied.
Most of their praise goes to Reece James (huge free kick, big defensive moment), while they downplay the “Pedro saved Chelsea” framing. The core complaint is coaching and mentality: Chelsea reliably “show up” for big games and when chasing, but can’t consistently start matches with...
ol' seggy j
They open by calling the Atalanta match “perfect” only because it’s over—Chelsea scored early (nearly disallowed) and then played scared, so they skip the recap.
Main takeaway: Chelsea show up for big opponents, but struggle badly in games they’re “supposed” to win because teams sit deep and Chelsea can’t consistently break them down. It feels like a motivation/urgency problem, which they put on the coach and captains; it also makes them miss Cole Palmer’s creativity.
They run quick roster takes:
Untouchable when fit: Caicedo, Enzo, Cucurella, Palmer; ReeceNo...bustion
In this episode of Football for Dummies by Dummies, Jason opens by roasting “Jeffy Double Down” for confidently demanding nine points from Leeds, Bournemouth, and Everton—then watching Chelsea stumble through a grim week where they looked second-best in every match. The guys process the emotional whiplash of going from smashing Barcelona and drawing Arsenal down a man to getting battered by Leeds and playing a lifeless 0–0 at Bournemouth, where only Sánchez kept them alive.
The heart of the episode is about how much Chelsea depend on Moisés Caicedo. Geoff goes deep on the def...
marital strife
In this episode of Football for Dummies by Dummies, Jason and Geoff unpack a wild, emotionally loaded Chelsea–Arsenal match that turned on Moisés Caicedo’s red card. They structure the whole recap around that moment: Caicedo’s reckless stamp on Mikel Merino’s ankle, Anthony Taylor’s reluctance to go to the monitor, VAR effectively forcing the red, and how dramatically it reshaped the game. Geoff admits he was so furious he had to stop watching to avoid “wishing death on people in red” in front of his family, while Jason narrates the second half from his perspective—Cha...
oh-lease
In this episode of Football for Dummies by Dummies, Jason and Geoff ride the high of Chelsea’s emphatic win over Barcelona and try to make sense of what it means. They break down Marisca’s game plan—no traditional striker, pacey wide players, exploiting Barça’s high line, and accepting a handful of offside calls as the cost of doing business. They talk through the key moments: early disallowed goals, the red card that tilted the match, and a statement performance that somehow still felt one bad bounce away from chaos.
The conversation zooms out into bigg...
Barcenal
Episode two of Football for Dummies by Dummies finds Jason and Geoff still workshopping the pod’s name, but fully locked into their Sunday-night Chelsea debrief. They recap a solid, low-stress win at Burnley—exactly the kind of performance you want after an international break and before a tough week. They highlight Gittens’ moment of brilliance, Neto’s impact, a lively striker cameo, and—most importantly—Chelsea’s depth: Andre Santos covering well for Caicedo, defenders rotating smoothly, and João Pedro’s versatility across the attacking third. Along the way, they riff on positions (9/10/8) and their ongoing “what salad would Chelsea...
dumberies
Jason Evans and Geoff Smith kick off Football for Dummies by Dummies (a Chelsea Podcast), a show where two long-suffering Blues supporters turn their weekly text threads and voice notes into an actual podcast. One of them is a full-blown tactics nerd, the other is still figuring out how half the Bundesliga table even works – and that’s kind of the point.
In this debut episode, they introduce themselves, explain how a Fox Soccer Channel roulette led Geoff to Chelsea, and how Jason went from JV mascot with a soccer ball on his head to Premier League addi...
