Amorim sacked by Man United! Plus Vinicius under fire + the Paris derby!

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

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4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

With you earlier than usual, it’s Jimbo, James Horncastle, Pol Ballus and some special guests for the first Euro pod of 2026.

Ruben Amorim is sacked by Manchester United on Monday morning. James Horncastle knew it wouldn’t work. Laurie Whitwell tells us why it didn’t and what happens next.

For the first time in 47 years, there’s a Paris derby in Ligue 1! And Strasbourg are losing their manager to Chelsea. Louis Vix from Canal + joins us to summarise the action from France.

There are big wins for Barca in the derby at Espanyol and Real Madrid at home to Real Betis. But the Bernabeu still shower Vinicius Junior with boos.

And the top three continue to match each other stride for stride in Serie A with another big away win for Napoli, with Antonio Conte turning night-club bouncer.

Produced by Charlie Jones and Lucy Oliva

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1: Man United sack Amorim, with Laurie Whitwell (01.30)

• PART 2a: Moment of the week(15.00)

• PART 2b: La Liga update - Barca’s derby win and boos for Vini (20.00)

• PART 3: Serie A latest - the top three all victorious (30.00)

• PART 4: Ligue 1 with Louis Vix - the Paris derby and O’Neil in at Strasbourg (43.00)

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC
0:03.3	Totally football show.
0:11.0	Today, quit your yamarin.
0:12.8	They fired Ruben Amarin.
0:14.6	We interrupt this Euro edition for special Amor Out coverage
0:18.3	as manned obsessed with three at the back,
0:20.1	get sack for talking back.
0:22.1	Then, after the latest from Manchester, it's off to the usual Madrid's, Milan's and Marseilles.
0:27.5	Plus, dramatic derby news from Barcelona and Paris, and somebody new talking about Stonewise.
0:33.7	It's all coming up in this totally football show.
0:40.3	Thank you very much. It's all coming up in this totally football show. Monday the 5th of January.
0:45.8	It's a happy new year to James Horncastle.
0:49.2	Hello.
0:49.9	Hi James.
0:50.9	And to Popoulouse.
0:52.8	Hello, hello.
0:56.9	Lovely to see you again, Paul. And you're delighted that Christmas is over. Sort of, yeah. Yeah, I don't want to be like the Grinch, but after like a
1:03.4	couple of weeks of meeting people and Christmas dinners and everything, I'm just, I'm happy to be
1:08.4	on my own at some point.
1:16.8	I understand, Paul. Let's talk some football. We've got a very special guest on the way shortly.
1:28.4	We've got all our moment of the week and usual fun in games. But first, in light of events earlier today in Manchester, joining us now for his Euro edition debut,
1:30.1	we have Laurie Whitwell.
	...

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