An ode to Pirlo, racketeering, and a big beautiful German man

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

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

4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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AC Jimbo is joined by Matt Scott, Rafa Honigstein, and Michael Cox for your brand new Totally Football Show, where we’re busy looking ahead to the friendly between England B and Germany, and far more important World Cup qualifiers such as Denmark v Ireland, Sweden v Italy and New Zealand’s double-header with Peru.Also on our menu: Pirlo retires; West Ham’s appointment of David Moyes; the FIFA trail begins; Amy Lawrence’s fab new Arsenal doc; and some of the worst pronunciation of Greek names you’ll ever here.LIVE EVENT NEWS: • thanks to everyone who came to see us kick off the Totally World Tour in Birmingham last night: https://www.instagram.com/p/BbRjnNCA_FR/?taken-at=227933296• Next stop: London on Wednesday 29 November, where Kevin Bridges is our very special guest. Join Kevin and Jimbo, Rafa, Iain Macintosh and Producer Ben at the O2 Indigo: http://bit.ly/2wmBaiWPARISH NOTICES:• pre-order Rafa’s new book on Jurgen Klopp: http://amzn.eu/ijRYCxA • read Matt’s proper journalism: http://bit.ly/2jc0JS3  • 89: https://www.facebook.com/89thefilm/• get your shave on with our friends Cornerstone, who are giving you £10 off your first order: https://www.cornerstone.co.uk/totally• we’re working with CALM, the Campaign Against Living Miserably, who are dedicated to preventing male suicide. Find out more: https://www.thecalmzone.net/GET IN TOUCH: • find us on Facebook, where you’ll find video, photos and loads of other stuff: https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/ • send us a tweet: @thetotallyshow

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0:00.0	International Week totally football show. World Cup fever is happening. Eager Nation plans for time off work as England face war champions Germany, including after England's starting 11. Elsewhere, playoffs, Ireland versus thees, and that Sweden-Italy clash.
0:24.1	They're the marquee fixtures, so named because they'll be intense.
0:27.3	We'll canvas opinion on those and get more on the road to Russia.
0:29.8	New Zealand's fans are their trip all the way to Peru.
0:32.7	We have a poignant moment as Pierlo announces his retirement.
0:34.3	Really? Which MLS club?
0:39.2	And say, moise, moise, we're ready for the bad times at West Ham.
0:41.0	It's the Totally Football Show.
0:45.0	That's right, everybody.
0:46.0	Hello.
0:51.0	I'm happy to say that here to make sense of a confusing week, we've got Raphael Honigstein.
0:51.9	Hello, James.
0:53.7	We've got Michael Cox.
0:54.2	Hi, James. And we've also got Matt Scott. Hello, James. We've got Michael Cox. Hi James.
0:55.8	And we've also got Matt Scott.
0:56.7	Hello, James.
1:00.0	Matt Scott mounting a controversial defence of Tony Pulece.
1:00.6	Yeah.
1:05.3	Who was very much a trending topic for us on Wednesday evening when we went to Totally Football Show live at the Glee Club in Birmingham.
1:09.0	Many thanks to everyone who joined us there.
1:10.5	And the lovely folks, because we had a great night. It talks a lot of things about football in the Midlands, that kind of thing. And Raffa, we've got another one coming up later on this month, which you're going to be part of. Yeah, I'm very excited to be there. Right. At the O2. At the O2. Indigo. Yeah, and hopefully Tony Poulos will be a topic there.
1:29.2	Matt, we'll come to you later on why Tony Puleas is an absolute footballing good.
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