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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo welcomes Daniel Storey, Natalie Gedra and Charlie Eccleshare into the pod after a weekend of not a lot of football but a whole lot of talking points.
Spurs and Liverpool share the spoils in one of the games of the season so far. But it’s the officiating that takes centre stage. Are we heading towards a refereeing crisis with a dearth of talented officials in this country?
Meanwhile Man City have entered champions mode, as we compare and contrast Cancelo and Alexander-Arnold. And Chelsea are paying the price for not matching the goal scoring prowess of their rivals.
Arsenal win again as Natalie tells us how Gabriel Martinelli has been manufactured for greatness.
Plus Ronaldo buys Cruzeiro and is South America joining the Nations League?
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: Round 20 about to be postponed? (02m 00s)
• PART 1b: Spurs 2-2 Liverpool (09m 00s)
• PART 2: Newcastle 0-4 Man City & Wolves 0-0 Chelsea (32m 30s)
• PART 3a: Leeds 1-4 Arsenal (45m 30s)
• PART 3b: Ronaldo buys Cruzeiro (54m 00s)
• PART 3c: Brazil in the Nations League? (60m 00s)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:08.7 | Totally football show. |
| 0:10.8 | This won't take long. |
| 0:12.0 | Today, totally reduced fixture list, |
| 0:14.5 | featuring just four matches but one outright stunner Sunday in Northland. |
| 0:19.1 | And we look back on a weekend marked by |
| 0:21.0 | Omicron and Omicronic decisions |
| 0:23.3 | discuss Harry Winks and Gabriel Winks |
| 0:25.4 | why will miss referees when they're gone |
| 0:27.4 | and how South America is joining the Nations League |
| 0:30.1 | it's all coming up in this totally football show |
| 0:32.2 | in association with Paddy Bauer |
| 0:33.7 | I'm unbelievable Monday Power. Monday 20th of December. |
| 0:45.1 | Lovely to have you with us, listening. We've got a lovely panel for you two, featuring Daniel's story. Hello, Daniel. |
| 0:52.0 | Hi, James. Also with us Charlie Eccleshare. Hi, James. And hello to you. And Natalie |
| 0:57.8 | Gerev of ESPN Bresdoul. Hello. Hi, Natalie. Yeah, delightful to have you all with us. Charlie and |
| 1:04.2 | Natalie, you were both at the Tonner-Hotspur Stadium late Sunday for, if not the game of the season so far, |
| 1:10.7 | certainly the game of the round. Yeah, I think it was the game of the season so far, certainly the game of the round. |
| 1:12.5 | Yeah, I think it was the game of the season. I mean, the only one I could think of |
| 1:15.9 | compete with it is another two to involving Liverpool, which was the city game back in |
| 1:21.4 | October, I think that was. But I just, it was completely relentless. I mean, barely a few |
| 1:27.0 | minutes went by without some sort of major incident. |
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