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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
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🗓️ 21 May 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So we've finally come down from the arches of Wembley to dissect the chess-like breakdown that was the FA Cup final and ask if Conti's done, how many others are about to get woven up in the Premier League managerial merry go-round with Scottish |
| 0:21.4 | Cup finals, FAA Vars finals and Bufon, full stop, or is it for him, there'll be tears. |
| 0:28.2 | That's all coming up on the Totally Football Show. |
| 0:35.1 | Welcome to the Totally Football, almost totally absent of football, but we'll do our best show. |
| 0:40.4 | James is still playing with his toy trains, so you've got me today. |
| 0:43.4 | I'm joined by Ian Irvin from Premier League TV, who's just actually told us he can stick two fingers up his nose at once, up one nostril, not just up both nostrils. |
| 0:51.5 | Michael Cox, author of The Mixer, who sat there thinking, what have I let myself in for? And Sasha Gurinov, the Russian with a Scouse accent, or is it the other way round? Either, to be honest, works. Yeah, a little bit of both. Let's start with the greatest FA Cup final I've witnessed in my lifetime. Liverpool West Ham 2006 at the Millennium Stadium. |
| 1:11.5 | I'll talk about that one instead. |
| 1:12.7 | Yeah, that was great. Should we just do that one? |
| 1:15.3 | The weekend, Wembley, Saturday. I mean, it happened, Sash, and you were there. |
| 1:20.6 | Half time I was sort of regretting being there. |
| 1:23.0 | Because something I was completely struck by was the use of Herrera as the third centreback. Has Morinia done this before? On Hazard, yes. On Hazard, yes. So this was specific has, but I've seen him play against Hazard before, but I didn't see it so blatant. And I think this basically made the United play very, very negative and this is why the first half was absolutely turgid. And again, one moment of brilliance was from Azad. The first touch pass Jones was wonderful, but the rest of the first half was so forgettable. It wasn't even Herrera man marking that got me. It was Lingard man marking that got me. He was man marking on Golokane. You've got three attacking players on the field, and one of them's man-marking their defensive midfielder. So I'm not surprised at United's struggle to express themselves in the first half. Marino will do what Marino does, and it'll say the things afterwards, and it's been proved once again that everyone's debating now, him talking about Lecacu and him talking about this and him talking |
| 2:17.6 | about that. But it felt to me like Saturday was the day where a lot of Manchester United's fans |
| 2:23.0 | sort of began to think, well, I'm going to minute, we've heard a lot of this now. We've heard a lot |
| 2:26.9 | of the same sort of things being said. And actually, we don't want him sacked or anything like that. |
| 2:32.2 | However, next year now has to be the year. |
| 2:34.6 | There cannot be any more excuses. |
| 2:36.3 | You can argue about the progress or improvement |
| 2:39.1 | and whatever that looks like, you know, |
| 2:41.2 | second place, the highest finish since for Alex Ferguson, |
| 2:43.9 | but no silverware, a brand of football that a lot of fans are not particularly pleased with. |
| 2:49.0 | Lack of progress in certain individual players, fan favourites like Rashford and Marciel, |
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