A carefully constructed Machiavellian plan

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

Soccer,, Premier League, Champions League, Sports, World Cup

4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo, Opta's Duncan Alexander, Tom Williams and James Horncastle talk big bouncy wins, respect, and rethinking possession stats. Plus, Fortnite, the Old Firm, and a farewell to DeuceRUNNING ORDER:• PART 1a: Man U 0 - 3 Spurs, meltdowns and shifting sands (0m 40s)• PART 1b: Watford v Spurs preview (11m 20s)• PART 1c: Leicester v Liverpool and Chelsea v Bournemouth previews (15m 00s)• PART 2a: Ligue 1 and Serie A updates (21m 40s)• PART 2b: Old Firm derby preview - with Andrew Slaven from the Totally Scottish Football Show (29m 50s)• PART 3a: Man C v Newcastle preview - and more on possession stats (33m 00s) • PART 3b: Palace and Saints, Fulham and beats, (40m 00s)• PART 3c: West Ham, Cardiff and Huddersfield chat (43m 20s)• PART 4: The odds with Paddy Power’s Lee Price (51m 20s) • PART 5: Exeunt ones (53m 50s)LIVE NEWS• Join Jimbo, James Horncastle, Duncan Alexander and Michael Cox in [**London on Mon 24 Sept at the Queen Elizabeth Hall**](https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/128635-totally-football-show-live-james-richardson-2018).• and our lineup in **[Manchester on Friday 5 October at the RNCM](https://www.seetickets.com/tour/the-totally-football-show-live)** is Jimbo, Horncastle, Rory Smith and Daniel StoreyCHARITY NEWS:• we’re working with **CALM,** the Campaign Against Living Miserably, who are dedicated to preventing male suicide. Head to the [Calm Zone](https://www.thecalmzone.net/) PARISH NOTICES:• we’re sponsored by [**Paddy Power** - home of the Money Back Special](http://www.paddypower.com/)GET IN TOUCH:• find us on **[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/)**.• send us a **[tweet: @TheTotallyShow](http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow)**

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0:00.0	Totally Football Show.
0:04.6	Today, move over General Custer and whoever got Theresa May, that tribal dancing photo op,
0:09.6	as Jose takes his place in the pantheon of tactical triumphs, battering spurs, nil goals to three.
0:16.3	We survey the post-game damage and look forward to the weekend as United visit Burnie as so much more.
0:21.4	The shout-outs to their own goals, much love for the deuce,
0:24.4	and we try and squeeze on board the hips to bandwagon that is Scottish football.
0:28.0	All that plus the biggest possession controversies since Linda Blair and the Crucivix
0:31.1	in The Totally Football Show.
0:36.1	Unbelievable.
0:36.7	Unbelievable. I can handle things. I'm smart.
0:41.6	Not like everybody says.
0:43.8	I'm done.
0:44.6	I'm smart and I want to step.
0:47.0	Jose Marino there.
0:48.4	After his tactical victory Monday night at Old Trafford, thanks to Brian Austin,
0:52.4	Kenny for that.
0:53.5	Yes, what a dramatic start to The Week in Football Land with Spurs going up to Old Trafford and winning. 3-0 over Man United. We've got an awful lot to talk about today with that, with midweek Carrabah cart, with loads of other things like The Weekend. We've got Tom Williams in, author of Do You Speak Football?
1:16.1	Hello, James. James Horncastle. That is I. Good to have you back. Good to be back.
1:21.3	Right. James has also been appearing on the Galazzo show this week. What a terrific show that was with the excellent.
1:26.3	Richard Hughes. Yeah. In which we discovered that he'd had Christian Ronaldo sent off for headbutting him.
1:28.5	Yeah. Didn't sound very nice.
1:31.2	We've also had Atalanta tweeters in the meantime.
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