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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

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

4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Jimbo has Michael Cox, Duncan Alexander (Opta) and David Preece for company to look back on the final weekend in the Premier League and gaze ahead to the Europa League final. Plus, a selection of favourite footballing injuriesRUNNING ORDER:• PART 1a: Duncan Alexander’s stats o' the season - featuring a lot of Man City and a bit of Mo Salah (01m 20s)• PART 1b: Chelsea blow it; Arsene bows out; Mou’s left all alone; Swans down (05m 30s) • PART 1c: Spurs 5 - 4 Leicester and the rest of the final PL weekend (12m 20s)• PART 1d: All hail, Lewis Dunk and doing an Egil Østenstad (16m 50s)• PART 2a: Championship playoffs; Brackley Town; and Tranmere’s return (20m 00s )• PART 2b: The best football injuries - featuring mostly goalkeepers (24m 50s) • PART 3a: A word from Spain with Alvaro Romeo (32m 20s)• PART 3b: More Europa League final chat and Mr Pamela Anderson (36m 30s)• PART 4a: Au revoir, Les Herbiers; B teams; (40m 40s)• PART 4b: Bundesliga and Serie A round-ups (43m 40s)• PART 4c: Duncan Alexander's miscellany (46m 30s)• PART 5: Paddy Power’s Movers and Shakers with Lee Price (47m 30s)• PART 6: Model railways and exeunt omnes (49m 40s)CHARITY NEWS:It's mental health awareness week - and we’re working with **CALM**, the Campaign Against Living Miserably, who are dedicated to preventing male suicide. [Find out more](https://www.thecalmzone.net/).PARISH NOTICES:• join [**Paddy Power’s Rewards Club**](http://www.paddypower.com/) - home of the Money Back Special• get your shave on with our friends [**Cornerstone**, who are giving you £10 off your first order](https://www.cornerstone.co.uk/totally)GET IN TOUCH:• find us on **Facebook** • send us a [tweet: **@TheTotallyShow**](http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow)

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0:00.0	Totally Football Show.
0:05.8	After 364 games, 17 managerial changes, 2,575 goals and 2,013 made-up statistics.
0:13.5	That's it then.
0:14.5	The Premier League's Red Dwarf star implodes in a finale so pointless it could have been run by Frank DeBur.
0:20.0	Still, there was fun, especially at Wembley, where both sides came together for an ensemble, end-of-season song and dance spectacular, entitled No, You Defend. Ahead of the black hole of the largely footballist next few weeks, today's Totally Football Show previews, the Europa League final, answers some questions, round-ups the talking points from the weekend and fills up that vital hour in your day.
0:39.3	Hang on, is this your stop? It's all in the Totally Football Show.
0:52.8	Joining us on today's Totally Football Show, it's hello Michael Cox.
0:56.3	Hello, James.
0:57.0	Here, despite an injury.
0:58.7	That is true.
0:59.5	Yeah.
1:00.2	Suffered on the football field?
1:01.8	Yeah, pretty niche injury.
1:03.9	You put your body in the line.
1:05.4	You put your body on the line for your team, essentially.
1:07.9	Always.
1:08.6	I know you'll be doing that today.
1:10.7	We'll have a special Michael Cox injury tribute section later on. Looking forward to it. Yeah. Duncan Alexander, you're here despite being laden down by a season, literally a season's worth of stats. A whole season, yeah. That is a lot. You had your greatest hits playing on Twitter this morning. I wonder if you could give us your
1:28.7	favourite stat of the season. Well, there are a lot. I think I enjoyed the fact that the player
1:33.8	had the most shots without scoring was Wilfred and Didi. Was it? And did he score? I'm afraid
1:39.3	not. Oh, bastardly done. And so, Riz, you're here despite being a Sunderland fan. Well, I'm just pleased to be here like anyone else. Yeah, it was kind of a curious Sunday, wasn't it? The weekend, I mean, it was essentially just a Sunday afternoon. It was a bit weird, though, isn't it? Yeah, there was a bit of, um, defendant was optional Sunday. Yeah, well, the big talking points, I guess, from Sunday's matches.
2:02.5	Gabriel Jesus' goal? What a lovely goal it was. I mean, the take, first of all, to send
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