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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

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

4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Today we take on the film Escape To Victory, where football and POW camps collide. Starring Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Pele, John Wark and that bloke from The Vicar of Dibley.Duncan Alexander constructs a reality where Roman Abramovich didn’t buy Chelsea – but Arsenal instead! Plus there’s George Weah’s new single, footballer’s weddings and a mouth-watering first round draw.RUNNING ORDER• PART 1: Weah’s worthy song & Hulk gets hitched (01m 00s) • PART 2: Solutions to finishing the season & the Totally Quiz draw (10m 30s)• PART 3: Flip Reverse It – if Abramovich had bought Arsenal (15m 30s)• PART 4: Flicks and Kicks – Escape To Victory review (24m 00s) GET IN TOUCH:• follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/totallyfootballshow/)• find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/)• send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow (http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow) PARISH NOTICES:• we’re sponsored by Paddy Power - home of the Money Back Special (http://www.paddypower.com/) READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE:• check out thetotallyfootballshow.com (http://thetotallyfootballshow.com/) .


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0:00.0

Marini's Media.

0:08.4

Totally football show.

0:10.5

In today's all-killer, absolutely no-filler edition, we tackle wedding news,

0:15.5

literally flip-reverse that time stream as we asked what if Roman Abramovich had brought Arsenal instead and at flicks and kicks on Escape to Victory,

0:25.5

a film about a group of people using football as a means to escape their confinement for very thought.

0:30.6

All that plus your questions and some totally huge news in the totally football show in association with Paddy Bauer.

0:39.7

Unbelievably!

0:59.8

Sting! They're at the checkout with the social distancing messaging anthem for our times.

1:03.1

We're joined on today's totally listener by you.

1:05.7

Thank you very much.

1:06.9

Also here, Raphael Honigstein.

1:09.1

Hello, Raffa.

1:10.1

Hello, James. Hey, Tom Williams is on board. Good day to you, Tom. Good day, James. And hello, Duncan Alexander. Hello. How are you?

1:21.4

I'm very well, thank you, Duncan. Hey, it would have been internationals this weekend. So there's that.

2:03.0

What are you saying that this is an unexpected positive consequence of the shutdown? Well, that's not for me to say, Tom Williams. I don't know. I was very much looking forward to Germany, Italy. Yeah. And Germany spring. I was due to be at Wales, USA. Were you, Tom? Where was that going to be? I missed out on a trip to Cardiff. Cricy. Duncan, what would you have been doing? I would have been probably not watching the internationals, I think. I see. I've stayed solid on that front. Duncan spends his weekends when there's international football on just watching Premier League years on a loop. So nothing has really changed for him in that respect.

2:04.0

Nice.

2:09.4

Well, none of that football, of course, happening because of COVID-19, as you've probably heard.

2:15.3

The coronavirus crisis has seen all sorts of football clubs and football figures doing very positive things.

2:18.2

Gary Neville famously opening up his Manchester hotels for NHS workers. Josio Morinio this week has seen helping out of the Enfield branch of

2:23.2

Age UK, Pep Guardiola immediately going out and donating a million to Spanish anti-COVID-19

2:29.7

efforts. Refere, I read that in Germany, Bayern Munich's players have taken a whopping 20% pay cut

2:35.1

to help other employees at the club get through the coronavirus crisis. That's correct. The

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