A Ballon d'Or for Dembele and goals galore for Kane

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

Soccer, Unknown, Soccer,, Sports, Football

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo’s got James Horncastle, Seb Stafford-Bloor, Pol Ballús and Julien Laurens for company as the Euro gang dive into another busy weekend of action from across the continent.

In La Liga, Real Madrid continued their sensational run of form to begin the season with their latest victory, a 2-0 win over Espanyol featuring two absolute golazo’s from Éder Militão and Kylian Mbappé. They maintained their two-point lead over Barcelona - who beat Getafe 3-0 - with Marcus Rashford starting on the bench due to his poor timekeeping…

Over in France, we were made to wait for Le Classique with dramatic storms sweeping over the Cote d'Azur… don’t worry, Jules will give his reaction to *that* result next week! Thankfully, we were able to talk about a fiery Brittany derby and Monaco’s resurgent Ansu Fati.

In Serie A, Juve were perhaps suffering from a UCL hangover as they were held to a frustrating 1-1 draw at Hellas Verona, while Lorenzo Pellegrini’s remarkable redemption arc at Roma continued as he scored the only goal in Roma’s first win ‘away’ to Lazio since 2016.

And in the Bundesliga, you’ll never guess… Harry Kane is scoring goals! Three of them to be precise - taking his tally to 70 goals in 67 league matches. But he wasn’t the only British export bagging a dreierpack - with Oliver Burke getting three of his own in Union Berlin’s 4-3 victory at Frankfurt!

Plus - we’ve got plenty of Ballon d’Or chat, loud helicopters and particularly cheeky Nandos…

Produced by Lucy Oliva.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1: Moments of the week & Ballon d’Or chat (00.40)

• PART 2: La Liga review - Real keep winning with Madrid derby round the corner (20.55)

• PART 3: Ligue 1 review - Emegha shows his commitment to Strasbourg (35.40)

• PART 4: Serie A review - worrying times for Fiorentina, Lazio & Torino (44.35)

• PART 5: Bundesliga review - goal machine Kane - and Burke! (54.35)

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