Arsenal v Bayern & Chelsea v Barca headline European midweek
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.6 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo beams in Seb-Stafford Bloor from Hamburg and James Horncastle, Julien Laurens and Pol Ballús in the studio (!) for a latest dose of European and poultry-based chitchat ahead of MD5 in the Champions League.
It’s a midweek full of fascinating ties with Arsenal hosting Bayern, Chelsea welcoming Barca - and PSG taking on Tottenham (again) as we enter the latter stages of the league phase.
We’ve got all the usual tales from across the leagues, including Marseille purring in Ligue 1 ahead of the visit of Newcastle on Tuesday night - as they put five past Nice in unkind fashion on Friday night.
In Germany, Bayern gave Freiburg a two-goal head start but still managed to win 6-2, with Michael Olise turning on the style as he prepares to face former Palace teammate Eberechi Eze on Wednesday evening…
The Serie A title race shows no sign of letting up as it was Milan who took the bragging rights in the Derby della Madonnina - but it’s Roma who lead the way at the top of the table as Evan Ferguson finally opened his account!
While in Spain, there’s signs of discontent at Real Madrid as they dropped yet more points, this time at newly promoted Elche - and that’s before the news that Vini Jr and Xavi Alonso aren’t too chummy… more on that later in the week!
Produced by Lucy Oliva.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Hellos, degrees - and moments of the weekend - (00.45)
• PART 2: UCL MD5 key ties/ Ligue 1 review - João Neves = goal machine (11.10)
• PART 3: More UCL fun/ Bundesliga review - Karl & Olise shine for Bayern (23.45)
• PART 4: Serie A review - Milan is red and Bologna are great (40.00)
• PART 5: La Liga review - Real drop more points as Antony sees red (53.00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic F.C. |
| 0:10.2 | Totally football show. |
| 0:11.9 | European edition. |
| 0:12.9 | Today, Champions League match day five. |
| 0:15.4 | Arsenal Bayern is Eze versus Olyse in the ex-Palasico, Spurs play PSG after playing Pierspour at the weekend. |
| 0:24.6 | We look at the games in store from Basso at the bridge |
| 0:26.8 | to the Macpies at the Velodrome |
| 0:28.2 | and get the latest on the big European leagues |
| 0:30.4 | from Pogba to Pobiga and even a bit of Pocitino |
| 0:33.7 | to Magic Mike putting on a show in Milan. |
| 0:36.0 | It's the Totally Football Show. |
| 0:44.6 | Monday 24th of October, who we got in the studio for you today? |
| 0:48.8 | Listener well, there's Julian Lawrence. |
| 0:51.2 | Hello. |
| 0:51.9 | Or Vespian. |
| 0:53.0 | Who's about to get a train, aren't you, Joos? Yes, to France for, because you know, this is a special week. It's France v Laurent. Hello. Or v. ESPN. It's about to get a train, aren't you, Jules? |
| 0:54.4 | Yes, to France for, because you know this is a special week. It's France v England, really, in Europe. That's so true. Yeah, that's so true. You know how that ends. Well, we see. We will see. Admiral Nelson. James Horace. Well, all right. let's not go there |
| 1:10.5 | shall we |
| 1:10.8 | the full mouse |
| 1:11.5 | James Horncastle also here |
| 1:14.1 | Hello James Hawkins. All right. Let's not go there, shall we? |
| 1:10.9 | The full mills. |
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