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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo welcomes Daniel Storey, Adrian Clarke and Sasha Goryunov into the pod on another weekend where off the field issues overshadow the action.
Manchester United v Liverpool becomes the first Premier League game ever to be called off due to fan protests. Can we expect to see more of this as the Super League backlash continues?
Everton look to have blown their hopes of a top 4 finish. Is it time Ancelotti came in for some criticism? Also we praise Ollie Watkins, proof of the power of the pyramid.
Chelsea Women make history by reaching their first ever Champions League final. Are Chelsea Men the best coached team in the Premier League?
Man City edge closer to the title. Julien Laurens tells us why PSG could overturn the deficit in their Champions League semi-final.
Plus bigging up Brighton, Martin Tyler re-records and the final Inter Totally Cup quarter-final between Sasha and Duncan Alexander.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Protesters postpone Man Utd v Liverpool, with Carl Anka (01m 00s)
• PART 2a: Spurs 4-0 Sheff Utd (17m 00s)
• PART 2b: Southampton 1-1 Leicester (21m 30s)
• PART 2c: Everton 1-2 Aston Villa (25m 30s)
• PART 3a: Crystal Palace 0-2 Man City (31m 00s)
• PART 3b: Julien Laurens on PSG’s hopes of a comeback against City (35m 00s)
• PART 3c: Matt Davies-Adams on Chelsea Women’s Champions League semi win (40m 30s)
• PART 3d: Chelsea 2-0 Fulham (45m 30s)
• PART 4a: On This Day – Tony Adams & the ghost goal (51m 30s)
• PART 4b: The rest of the Premier League weekend (55m 30s)
• PART 5: Inter Totally Cup – Alexander v Goryunov (62m 30s)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:04.6 | Totally Football Show. |
| 0:10.9 | Ragged mob somehow gets on Old Trafford pitch, causes problems before being chased away. |
| 0:16.1 | Hang on, that's my Roma match report from Thursday. |
| 0:18.6 | Our, fan stage anti-glazer protest on Sunday, |
| 0:22.6 | Man United Liverpool postponed. |
| 0:24.8 | We get the reaction to an extraordinary afternoon of action on site and in studio. |
| 0:30.2 | Then we round up all the games that did take place and look ahead to the midweek fixtures too. |
| 0:35.2 | Chelsea against Rail Madrid and Man City PSG. How safe is that city lead? |
| 0:40.3 | Plus, there's intertotally action between Sasha and Duncan. It's all in the Totally Football Show in association with Paddy Power. |
| 0:52.3 | Hello there, dear listener. It is May the 3rd. I hope you you having a nice time ahead of us. We've got a lovely hour in store in the company of Daniel's story. |
| 1:02.2 | Hi James. Hello to you. Adrian Clark. Hello. Good. And also, Sasha Gourinov. Sasha's a little bit nervous because he's in the quiz later on. |
| 1:13.2 | Hi, James. |
| 1:14.5 | Nice to see you, Sash. |
| 1:16.5 | It's been a weekend, everybody, of people taking action, |
| 1:19.8 | no longer silently acquiescing in things they don't agree with. |
| 1:23.4 | We've had the social media blackout, which is still rolling on, of course. |
| 1:27.3 | But most visibly, the disruption at Old Traffat, hundreds of fans gaining access to the pitch there at the Theatre of Dreams. |
| 1:36.1 | And with others at the team's hotels, first delaying and then forcing the postponement of Sunday's big game, Man United against Liverpool. |
| 1:43.6 | It's the first game in Premier League history postponed due to fan protests, |
| 1:46.8 | although United's final game of the 2015-2016 season was also postponed. |
| 1:51.8 | Do you remember why? |
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