Arsenal wallop Wigan in the FA Cup as Tottenham take a chance on Tudor
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo gathers Daniel Storey, Tom Williams and Adrian Clarke together for a chat about the latest goings on in football.
Spurs have made their choice and surprised many by appointing Igor Tudor as interim manager to the end of the season. Does he have what it takes to keep Spurs up?
FA Cup 4th round weekend sees Arsenal thrash Wigan to keep their quadruple dreams alive. Nigel Clough’s Mansfield produce the biggest shock of the round as they knock out Premier League Burnley.
Newcastle come from behind to win at Villa Park in a game riddled with controversial calls. Were we too harsh on VAR?
Plus Mo Salah looks like his old self as Liverpool thrash Brighton and Leeds and West Ham are dreaming of FA Cup glory after squeezing through after extra-time.
Produced by Charlie Jones
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Baby it’s cold outside - 4th round highlights (01.00)
• PART 2: Arsenal 4-0 Wigan (11.00)
• PART 3a: Leeds and Wolves through to round 5 (22.00)
• PART 3b: Aston Villa 1-3 Newcastle (29.00)
• PART 3c: Liverpool 3-0 Brighton (37.00)
• PART 3d: Burnley 1-2 Mansfield & Burton 0-1 West Ham (40.00)
• PART 3e: Why wasn’t Marc Guehi cup-tied? (49.00)
• PART 4a: Tottenham appoint Tudor (51.00)
• PART 4b: Forest appoint Pereira (60.00)
• PART 4c: The title race in Scotland and the Championship (62.00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC. |
| 0:09.7 | Totally football show. |
| 0:11.5 | Today, FAC Cup, fourth round special. |
| 0:13.7 | Arsenal have a bigon with Wigan, but three Premier League sides, four. |
| 0:17.5 | We talked through the big news from the round, the men, the mud, the Mansfield town, and hail the star performers. Pedro Netto with his hat-trick at hull, stinging Netto. The Sandra Tanade turning up simply everywhere, much like his agent. Plus, we talk about Spurs' new manager, Tudor, the man, not the direction of travel. Should fans be Igor, or will they mock T do, or etc.? It's all coming up in this |
| 0:39.1 | Totally Football Show. It's the Totally Football Show. Here we are on a Sunday evening, |
| 0:46.6 | specifically, Sunday the 15th of February, we're putting together Monday mornings round up |
| 0:51.3 | of everything that took place in the FA Cup this weekend and other stuff too, like big managerial news. Ha! Who we got for you today? Tom Williams is here in the studio. Hi, Tom. Hello, James. Adrian Clark's here with us as well. I just come back from the Emirates. Hello, yeah. All right, just about dried out. Nice. Similarly, sitting on top of radiator probably, is Daniel's story who's got home after his trip to Blundle Park, aka operational headquarters of Grimsby. |
| 1:21.1 | Yeah, I've just about not thought out from, I think, a top five coldest game I've ever been to. |
| 1:26.3 | Really? |
| 1:27.3 | Biting wind, by the North Sea. |
| 1:29.4 | I mean, literally by the North Sea, it was cold, cold, cold. |
| 1:33.6 | But speaking of top five, your top one stadium famously in the Football League, |
| 1:40.2 | has that status been affected at all by today's experience? |
| 1:43.3 | So just to interject, this is when Daniel did the 92, |
| 1:47.4 | and of all the games he visited and all the venues he visited, |
| 1:49.8 | you rated Blundled Park your number one footballing experience? |
| 1:53.6 | Yeah, that's all I want from a ground, which is like A by the C, |
| 1:57.4 | B, in a kind of provincial northern town, |
| 2:01.7 | Cleethorpe's in this case, not Grimsby, |
| 2:04.7 | rows of terrace houses interjected by football stadium |
| 2:07.8 | rising above said town, yeah, it's all I wanted. |
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