All glamour, no clamour
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Champions League final ahoy. Matt Davies-Adams, Carl Anka, Rory Smith and Duncan Alexander look ahead to the marquee match of the club season in European football.
Real Madrid face Liverpool in Paris with revenge in the air. Is Mo Salah in danger of going full Gazza 91? And would the absence of Thiago make Real favourites?
The appetiser for Saturday sees Roma claim the first ever Conference League trophy with victory over Feyenoord. A great moment for Rome, Mourinho and Smalling.
The Championship play-off final rounds off the weekend on Sunday. Steven Chicken joins us to fill us in on Huddersfield and redress the rampant Nottingham Forest bias on the podcast.
Plus some love for Fikayo Tomori, more on Boehly buying Chelsea and Erik ten Hag – the new Dave Bassett?
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Grealish, ten Hag and Kompany (02m 00s)
• PART 2: Roma win the Conference League (13m 00s)
• PART 3: Real Madrid v Liverpool preview (23m 00s)
• PART 4a: Chelsea’s takeover complete (36m 00s)
• PART 4b: Southgate’s England squad (40m 00s)
• PART 5: Huddersfield v Forest preview with Steven Chicken (47m 00s)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:08.6 | Totally football show. |
| 0:10.3 | Jose's tyrannical trophy trip gives Roma top billing in the conference. |
| 0:14.7 | We look ahead to the Champions League final. |
| 0:16.6 | Will it be Trent's treble or Carlos quadruple? |
| 0:19.1 | Meanwhile, in the championship, Huddersfield |
| 0:20.9 | planned mass deforestation. |
| 0:23.0 | There's Ernest Eric checking in at United, |
| 0:24.9 | Chelsea's takeover and more |
| 0:26.5 | in this totally football show |
| 0:28.3 | in association with Paddy Palin. |
| 0:30.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:36.6 | Unbelievable. Welcome in then, listener Matt Davis-Adrongesterns, Strongest Man Jimbo. |
| 0:47.5 | In the pod on For Whaters is the 26th of May. |
| 0:51.5 | The author of Outside the Box, a statistical journey through the history of football, Duncan Alexander. Hi, Duncan. Hello, Matt. Also with us, the author of Mr. The Man Who Gave the World The Game Rory Smith. Hi, Rory. Hello. And Carl Anker, winning co-author of You Are a Champion. Art imitating life on Monday as you scooped a pair of gongs to become even more of a champion i guess |
| 1:11.9 | at the british book awards tell us more ohoy hoi matt yes i went to the british book awards okay the nibis |
| 1:18.7 | and uh the r a champion won best children's non-fiction book of the year and overall book of the year |
| 1:25.7 | so um yeah i've put one by my desk. |
| 1:30.7 | I'm holding it now for the benefit of everyone on this podcast. And the extra award is in the |
| 1:35.8 | other bathroom in True Cape Wins that style. So any guests that come around can hold it and |
| 1:40.9 | give their own thank you speech to everyone else. |
| 1:50.0 | Magnificent. Well deserved. It's an amazing book that's done amazingly well and you're amazing for having written. I would like Carl to define the other bathroom. What's the other bathroom? |
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