Advantage Arsenal & City in EFL Cup semis as Carrick prepares for Manchester derby
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo welcomes Tom Williams, Benji Lanyado and Art De Roché into the studio to dissect the League Cup semi's and look ahead to a big weekend of football.
Defeat for Liam Rosenior in his first home game in charge of Chelsea but Chelsea aren't out of the tie thanks to two goals from substitute Garnacho. City comfortably beat the holders Newcastle at St James Park with goals from two of Pep's most exciting new players Cherki and Antoine Semenyo.
The Manchester derby is the pick of the weekend's Premier League derbies with Pep facing the newly appointed interim manager Michael Carrick at Old Trafford on Saturday lunchtime.
And Maher Mezahi joins us to preview the AFCON final with Senegal facing the hosts Morocco on Sunday.
Produced by Charlie Jones and Jesse Howard.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: A look ahead to Saturday’s George Weah TFS Extra (0.40)
• PART 2a: Chelsea 2-3 Arsenal (06.15)
• PART 2b: Newcastle 0-2 Man City (16.10)
• PART 3a: Rundown of the weekend’s fixtures (23.40)
• PART 3b: The Manchester Derby (24.35)
• PART 3c: The weekend’s PL fixtures (28.35)
• PART 4a: The most fouled players in the Premier League (32.05)
• PART 4b: More PL previews (36.00)
• PART 5: AFCON final preview with Maher Mezahi (52.00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.4 | Totally football show. |
| 0:11.1 | Today, new man at Man You. |
| 0:13.8 | It's Keep Calm and carry on up Old Trafford, |
| 0:16.5 | as Man United pick former star, |
| 0:18.2 | continuing strong tradition of taking the Michael with their choices. |
| 0:21.4 | Also today |
| 0:21.9 | League |
| 0:22.5 | Cup semis Arsenal and Man City looking good Premier League weekend we talk derbies galore annoying transfers Fulham Greenish and possibly Elsakico and we get a look ahead at the Afcon final it's the Totally Football Show. |
| 0:47.3 | Thursday, the 15th of January. It's a big welcome to the Totally Football Show, which today features Benji Lenniardo, big cheese of pick fare. |
| 0:50.8 | Hello, Jimbo. You are? |
| 0:52.4 | Yeah, good. Yeah, big transfer window for pickfare. We're actually, we're chasing the signature of Seb Stafford Bloor. When, um, when did I ask you? I was, didn't you? I did. You're so right, then you. You know, Seb was talking about, he was taking photos of, is it Pipes-Reed? In the German sort of third division? Yes, that does ring about it. |
| 1:12.7 | Yeah, set off radars and signals and alarms in the Pickfest studio. So yeah, we're after him, that's our number one target. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Anyone that's like a kind of photography nerd to that level, we're interested in. Okay. Keep us posted on that. Tom Williams is here. Hello, James. |
| 1:25.8 | Tom stepped in for Duncan Alexander, who is not well. |
| 1:28.6 | Thanks, Tom. |
| 1:29.4 | Thoughts and prayers out to Duncan. |
| 1:31.0 | Very much so. And also here with us, listener with us, Art de Roche, we're spoiling you. Good morning. Do you want to hear how I am or no? Yes. Oh, I do. Sorry, I feel a bit bad. I'm okay. I was working with Duncan last night on the Arsenal Chelsea game. |
| 2:18.8 | So... Oh, I do, sorry, I feel a bit bad, man. I'm okay. I was working with Duncan last night on the last of Chelsea game. But he was at home, I hope. Yeah, yeah, from home. But I'm hoping that's not what did him in, basically. Was it that bad? It was, no, it was a good game, but yeah, it was a few quick changes late on with the goals. Oh, was he your editor? Yeah, yeah. Oh, right. What's he like as an editor? He's one of the good ones, one of the really good ones. Right. With the bad ones then? No, no, no, he's tough. He's top. Is he? Does he ever get upset? Like, do you, if you miss a deadline, does he come down on you? |
| 2:26.0 | No, no, well, that's never, I've never missed, like, I've never sent him anything for the late, so he's never had to. |
| 2:26.5 | Right. |
| 2:29.7 | There you go, pros. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. |
| 2:32.7 | I think that's something that people don't actually appreciate about journalists. |
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