The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

Jimbo assembles his own elite European line-up of Rafa Honigstein, James Horncastle and Alvaro Romeo.With the European Super League now a fully proposed project, the panel discuss if there’s any demand from broadcasters and sponsors for this unproven commodity?Pedro Pinto gives us the UEFA perspective on the dirty dozen, and the extent to which the clubs could be punished.Agnelli’s Juventus might be missing out on Champions League qualification after defeat to Atalanta in Serie AJose Mourinho is sacked by Tottenham after 17 months. Who next for Spurs? Nagelsmann? Allegri? Sarri?Plus Barcelona and Lionel Messi look like their old selves in a thrashing of Athletic Bilbao in the Copa Del Rey final.RUNNING ORDER:  • PART 1a: The European Super League is a thing (01m 00s)• PART 1b: Pedro Pinto with the UEFA perspective (12m 30s) • PART 1c: Moment of the weekend (28m 00s)• PART 2: Mourinho sacked by Spurs + Flick leaving Bayern (30m 45s)• PART 3: Barcelona thrash Athletic to win the Copa Del Rey (42m 00s)• PART 4: Juventus’ top 4 hopes in the balance + Europa League semis (49m 45s)  SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC FOR £4 A MONTH:• theathletic.com/totally GET IN TOUCH:• follow us on Instagram• find us on Facebook• send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow PARISH NOTICES:• we’re sponsored by Paddy Power - home of the Money Back Special READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE:• check out thetotallyfootballshow.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jimbo, Carl Anka, Daniel Storey and Matt Davies-Adams discuss a weekend that could be seismic for football in this country and around the continent.The Premier League’s “Big Six” clubs announce their intentions to start a new European Super League. We discuss how this could be calamitous for English football, and to what extent the clubs should be punished for this deplorable act. On the pitch, Leicester will play Chelsea in the FA Cup final, as Thomas Tuchel ends Man City’s quadruple hopes. In the Premier League, West Ham are beaten at St James Park as injuries threaten to damage their top 4 hopes. And the same could be true for Spurs with Harry Kane limping off. Would Kane be able to engineer the transfer he reportedly desires?Plus Redondo and Rashford’s nutmegs, Lyon out of Europe and Tammy Abraham out of favour.RUNNING ORDER:  • PART 1: Clubs announce plans for the European Super League – with Tariq Panja (01m 00s)• PART 2a: FA Cup semi-final reviews (24m 00s)• PART 2b: Lyon out of the Women’s Champions League (35m 00s)• PART 3a: Norwich promoted, Sheffield Utd relegated (37m 00s)• PART 3b: Newcastle 3-2 West Ham (41m 00s)• PART 3c: Arsenal 1-1 Fulham (45m 00s)• PART 4a: Man Utd 3-1 Burnley (49m 00s)• PART 4b: Everton 2-2 Tottenham (56m 30s)• PART 5: Inter Totally Cup – Horncastle v Fifield (60m 30s)  SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC FOR £4 A MONTH:• theathletic.com/totally GET IN TOUCH:• follow us on Instagram• find us on Facebook• send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow PARISH NOTICES:• we’re sponsored by Paddy Power - home of the Money Back Special READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE:• check out thetotallyfootballshow.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jimbo welcomes Pat Nevin, Duncan Alexander and Sasha Goryunov for an in-depth discussion on the Champions league quarter-finals.It’s elimination for the holders Bayern and a triumph for PSG and for Neymar – the Prince Charles of football.Up next for them, Manchester City, who finally reach the semi-finals under Pep Guardiola as Foden (and Bellingham) show exactly what they’re made of.Liverpool are snuffed out by Real Madrid at Anfield. Has Klopp been found tactically lacking this season? And was that the end of the famed front three?West Ham have the chance to go 3rd in the Premier League this weekend. Was everyone wrong about David Moyes regressing? And can Allardyce actually steer West Brom to safety?Lynsey Hooper faces Julien Laurens in the last 16 of the Inter Totally Cup.And as the FA Cup semi-finals beckon, Pat remembers the day when he scored the winner in one semi, while tragedy struck at the other.RUNNING ORDER:  • PART 1a: PSG knock out Bayern (03m 00s)• PART 1b: City knock out Dortmund (09m 00s) • PART 2a: Chelsea knock out Porto / great goals that didn’t matter (18m 30s)• PART 2b: Real Madrid knock out Liverpool (24m 00s)• PART 3a: Remembering 15th April 1989 (33m 00s)• PART 3b: FA Cup semi-finals preview (38m 00s)• PART 3b: Kudela banned for 10 matches (42m 30s)• PART 4a: West Brom’s transformation with Joseph Masi (47m 30s)• PART 4b: The rest of the Premier League weekend (54m 00s)• PART 5: Inter Totally Cup – Hooper v Laurens (63m 30s)  SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC FOR £4 A MONTH:• theathletic.com/totally GET IN TOUCH:• follow us on Instagram• find us on Facebook• send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow PARISH NOTICES:• we’re sponsored by Paddy Power - home of the Money Back Special READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE:• check out thetotallyfootballshow.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jimbo, Rafa Honigstein, James Horncastle, Alvaro Romeo and Julien Laurens cast their eyes over the Champions League quarter-final second legs.PSG have the advantage over Bayern and are on the verge of knocking the holders out. Will PSG falter at home again? And has civil war broken out at Bayern between Flick and Salihamidzic?Will Man City show they’re not a heroic team and once again fall at the quarter-final hurdle against Dortmund?Zinedine Zidane continues to lose players but find solutions as Real Madrid win El Clasico. Can Los Blancos control Liverpool again?Plus the Europa League, the Copa Del Rey, Ronaldo’s frustrated and Zlatan’s moving towards a movie career.RUNNING ORDER:  • PART 1a: Moment of the weekend (01m 30s)• PART 1b: PSG v Bayern preview (05m 00s) • PART 2: Real Madrid v Liverpool preview (13m 40s)• PART 3: Europa League and Serie A latest (27m 30s)• PART 4: Dortmund v Man City preview (41m 30s)• PART 5: Copa Del Rey final preview & your questions (48m 30s)  SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC FOR £4 A MONTH:• theathletic.com/totally GET IN TOUCH:• follow us on Instagram• find us on Facebook• send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow PARISH NOTICES:• we’re sponsored by Paddy Power - home of the Money Back Special READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE:• check out thetotallyfootballshow.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jimbo, Michael Cox, Adam Hurrey and Daniel Storey take in an enthralling Premier League weekend.West Ham take another step towards Champions League football thanks to that man Jesse Lingard, as Leicester look like a bunch of school children in trouble.Man United come from behind yet again to win at Spurs as Mourinho tries a new diversion technique. Is Solskjaer better than we thought he’d be?Man City are beaten at home by 10-man Leeds as we enjoy how mad football can be sometimes. But is the Champions League City’s to lose?Alvaro Romeo takes on Benji Lanyado in the latest last 16 tie in the Inter Totally Cup.Plus Football Focus and which Totally pundits would make a great 5-a-side team.RUNNING ORDER:  • PART 1a: West Ham 2-3 Leicester (02m 45s)• PART 1b: Spurs 1-3 Man Utd (12m 00s) • PART 2a: Man City 1-2 Leeds (22m 00s)• PART 2b: Champions League corner – City, Liverpool and Chelsea (26m 00s)• PART 3a: Clubs engage in social media boycott (40m 00s)• PART 3b: The good old days of Football Focus (43m 00s)• PART 3c: The Totally 5-a-side team (46m 30s)• PART 3d: The rest of the Premier League weekend (48m 30s)• PART 4: Inter Totally Cup – Romeo v Lanyado (56m 30s)  SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC FOR £4 A MONTH:• theathletic.com/totally GET IN TOUCH:• follow us on Instagram• find us on Facebook• send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow PARISH NOTICES:• we’re sponsored by Paddy Power - home of the Money Back Special READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE:• check out thetotallyfootballshow.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jimbo welcomes Duncan Alexander, Natalie Gedra and Dominic Fifield into the pod as the Champions League quarter-finals deliver on entertainment.An Mbappe-inspired PSG win 3-2 in Munich. Have they overcome their mental problems in this competition? Or are Bayern still favourites?Real Madrid are also victorious as makeshift Liverpool are exposed against high-level opposition. And Gareth Southgate will have been the most excited man watching City beat Dortmund, with Foden and Bellingham on song.West Ham take on Leicester in a future Champions League final this weekend. The Athletic’s Roshane Thomas tells us about Lingard and the band of brothers that David Moyes has assembled.And this weekend sees the reverse fixtures of the craziest day in Premier League history – when Manchester United conceded six and Liverpool conceded seven. Will this Spurs United clash boil down to Kane v Fernandes?Natalie takes on the notorious Jack Lang in the latest Inter Totally Cup tie.Plus playing at altitude and the Premier League building materials goal scorer chart.RUNNING ORDER:  • PART 1a: Footballing jargon (02m 00s)• PART 1b: Bayern 2-3 PSG (05m 00s) • PART 1c: Real Madrid 3-1 Liverpool (12m 00s)• PART 2a: 4th October 2020 – the craziest day in Premier League history (23m 00s)• PART 2b: West Ham v Leicester preview with Roshane Thomas (29m 30s)• PART 2c: Porto 0-2 Chelsea (39m 00s)• PART 2d: Man City 2-1 Dortmund (44m 00s)• PART 3: The rest of the Premier League weekend (55m 00s)• PART 4: Inter Totally Cup – Lang v Gedra (65m 30s)  SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC FOR £4 A MONTH:• theathletic.com/totally GET IN TOUCH:• follow us on Instagram• find us on Facebook• send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow PARISH NOTICES:• we’re sponsored by Paddy Power - home of the Money Back Special READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE:• check out thetotallyfootballshow.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jimbo is joined by Rafa Honigstein, Julien Laurens and Alvaro Romeo to look ahead to some mouth-watering Champions League quarter-finals.Liverpool travel to Madrid to face a Ramos-less Real. Will the Reds go with 4 up front?Man City host Dortmund, who lose a massive game against Eintracht Frankfurt in the race for the top 4. The Haaland camp have been meeting Barcelona and Real Madrid. Can anyone afford him this summer? And will missing out on Champions League football see Sancho leave Dortmund in this next transfer window?Pochettino is feeling the pressure as PSG lose to leaders Lille in France. Next up, it’s Bayern Munich in a rematch of last year’s final. Will Verratti be a bigger absentee than Lewandowski? Also on Wednesday, Juventus play Napoli in Serie A, a game with plenty of previous, with major implications for the top 4. And Real Sociedad win the first ever Basque Copa Del Rey final, with their manager in particular enjoying it. But there’s another regrettable racism row involving Valencia and Cadiz in La Liga.RUNNING ORDER:  • PART 1a: Moment of the weekend (02m 30s)• PART 1b: Real Madrid v Liverpool preview (06m 40s) • PART 1c: Man City v Dortmund preview (13m 40s)• PART 2: Real Sociedad win the Basque cup final (23m 00s)• PART 3: Bayern v PSG preview (29m 00s)• PART 4: Serie A, Europa League & your questions (41m 43s)  SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC FOR £4 A MONTH:• theathletic.com/totally GET IN TOUCH:• follow us on Instagram• find us on Facebook• send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow PARISH NOTICES:• we’re sponsored by Paddy Power - home of the Money Back Special READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE:• check out thetotallyfootballshow.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jimbo, Rory Smith, Daniel Storey and Tom Williams discuss an eyebrow-raising return for the Premier League.West Brom secure one of the shock results of the season, thrashing Chelsea 5-2 at Stamford Bridge. Man City breeze past Leicester – have they become impossible to manage against?Liverpool cruise past the Gunners, with the panel enjoying the chaos and directness that Diogo Jota brings. But as for Arsenal, how did they spend so much money to end up in mid-table?Ligue 1 is hotting up as PSG lose at home to Lille. The table looks very good for leaders Lille but is their business model about to be destroyed by pandemic finances?And Rory makes his Inter Totally Cup debut against Matt Davies-Adams.RUNNING ORDER:  • PART 1a: Man Utd 2-1 Brighton (03m 30s)• PART 1b: Chelsea 2-5 West Brom (11m 00s) • PART 2a: Arsenal 0-3 Liverpool (22m 00s)• PART 2b: Leicester 0-2 Man City (35m 00s)• PART 3: PSG 0-1 Lille (39m 30s)• PART 4: The rest of the Premier League weekend (46m 30s)• PART 5: Inter Totally Cup – Smith v Davies-Adams (58m 30s)  SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC FOR £4 A MONTH:• theathletic.com/totally GET IN TOUCH:• follow us on Instagram• find us on Facebook• send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow PARISH NOTICES:• we’re sponsored by Paddy Power - home of the Money Back Special READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE:• check out thetotallyfootballshow.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jimbo is joined by Duncan Alexander, Adrian Clarke and Lynsey Hooper to wave goodbye to the international break and say hello to the return of the Premier League.Werner and Germany have a shocker, losing at home to North Macedonia. But England make it 3 wins out of 3 against Poland. It’s a game that left the panel feeling John Stones is not a natural defender and that Gareth Southgate’s in-game management is mediocre.We get excited about Arsenal v Liverpool this weekend. Is it the Big Six fixture that always delivers? Leicester v Man City is a fixture that will no longer feature Sergio Aguero as he will leave in the summer. But is he in the top 5 Premier League strikers of all time?Chelsea Women finally win against Wolfsburg in the Champions League. Do they have what it takes to go all the way? And Arsenal are in the market for a new manager.Plus Duncan looks to avenge last year’s shock early exit as he takes on the debuting Adrian in the Inter Totally Cup.RUNNING ORDER:  • PART 1a: Germany 1-2 North Macedonia (02m 00s)• PART 1b: Elsewhere in Europe (05m 00s) • PART 1c: England 2-1 Poland & England Under 21s crash out (09m 30s)• PART 2: Arsenal v Liverpool & Leicester v Man City previews (23m 00s)• PART 3: Chelsea through to the WCL semi-finals (39m 00s)• PART 4: The rest of the Premier League weekend (45m 30s)• PART 5: Inter Totally Cup – Clarke v Alexander (57m 30s)  SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC FOR £4 A MONTH:• theathletic.com/totally GET IN TOUCH:• follow us on Instagram• find us on Facebook• send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow PARISH NOTICES:• we’re sponsored by Paddy Power - home of the Money Back Special READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE:• check out thetotallyfootballshow.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jimbo welcomes Daniel Storey, Sasha Goryunov and Charlie Eccleshare into the pod after another epic international weekend.The headlines are dominated by Republic of Ireland’s shock defeat at home to Luxembourg in World Cup qualifying. Ken Early tells us why it’s delusional for the Irish to believe this is their worst ever result.10 marks out of 10 for England so far as they swat aside San Marino and Albania. Should England build the team around Harry Kane when it comes to constructing their midfield? And who’s been the big winner of Euro 2020 being delayed by a year?Meanwhile Aidy Boothroyd’s Under 21s would settle for a shot on target. Why do so many big nations not have a style or system at Under 21 level?And Daniel takes on Sasha in another intriguing encounter in the Inter Totally Cup.Plus Dzyuba, Derby and football’s finest statues.RUNNING ORDER:  • PART 1a: Republic of Ireland 0-1 Luxembourg with Ken Early (03m 30s)• PART 1b: Worst moment following your nation? (11m 30s) • PART 1c: Elsewhere in Europe – Dzyuba goals and Swiss goals (15m 00s)• PART 2a: Albania 0-2 England (28m 00s)• PART 2b: England v Poland preview with Ryan Hubbard (35m 30s)• PART 2c: England Under 21s lose again (42m 00s)• PART 3: On This Day – footballing statues and Derby 07/08 (50m 30s)• PART 4: Inter Totally Cup – Goryunov v Storey (56m 00s)  SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC FOR £4 A MONTH:• theathletic.com/totally GET IN TOUCH:• follow us on Instagram• find us on Facebook• send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow PARISH NOTICES:• we’re sponsored by Paddy Power - home of the Money Back Special READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE:• check out thetotallyfootballshow.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.