Barca, Bayern and Inter top the tree + Fiorentina finally win!
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo’s got helpers James Horncastle, Seb Stafford-Bloor & Pol Ballús alongside him for some pre-Christmas cheer of a European variety.
We begin in La Liga, where it’s as you were at the top of the table with Barca navigating the tricky trip to Villarreal to come away with all three points to keep their advantage at the top of the table. Real’s win over Sevilla helps ease the pressure on Xabi Alonso - but is Vini Jr’s future in more serious doubt?
The shock scoreline across the continent was perhaps recorded in Florence, where having gone 210 days without a Serie A win - Fiorentina only went and put five past Udinese! Plus, Lois Openda ended his Juve goalscoring drought in their win over Roma to make things even tighter at the top.
We touch base with events in France, Portugal, Turkey and the Netherlands - including the mounting troubles for Robin van Persie, Coupe de France storylines and lone Portuguese superfans!
And in Germany - Bayern Munich continued their remarkable form with a 4-0 thrashing of Heidenheim - featuring Harry Kane’s 100th goal involvement in record quick time. Is the sky the limit for Vincent Kompany’s side this season?
Produced by Lucy Oliva.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Moments of the weekend (00.45)
• PART 2: La Liga review - Mbappe equals CR7 as Barca pass Villarreal test (07.15)
• PART 3: Serie A review - Fiorentina win a game… no, seriously! (18.40)
• PART 4: Elsewhere in Europe - Coupe de France storylines & RvP under pressure (36.03)
• PART 5: Bundesliga review - the Bayern machine rolls on (40.55)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Totally football show |
| 0:11.7 | European edition |
| 0:13.0 | Today, Spain |
| 0:14.3 | Another round of odd man out at Rail |
| 0:16.5 | And Yamal called out for being immature |
| 0:18.6 | by a 10-year-old |
| 0:20.0 | France Guadeloupe in the coop And breasts get buried by an avarange. |
| 0:25.2 | Syria, Florence, Arabia with the Saudi Super Cup and a renaissance for the Florentines. |
| 0:30.2 | And Germany rock the Kaspar. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm only human by Leibuzen, continuing their comeback as they take down Leipzig. |
| 0:37.5 | It's all in the Totally Football Show. I'm going to see the crazy. by Leibuzen continuing their comeback as they take down Leipzig. |
| 0:39.8 | It's all in the Totally Football Show. |
| 0:47.3 | Monday the 22nd of December listener, |
| 0:56.4 | not long to go now, not many sleeps left until our special Totally Extra Christmas edition, which will be with you Saturday morning. I'm not going to sleep Friday night, I can tell you that. |
| 1:01.5 | A Santa Pod, you might call it. Anyway, that's out on Saturday. But perhaps even more exciting, |
| 1:08.2 | we've got our last totally football show European edition of the year right now. |
| 1:13.7 | Here with me in the Totally Studio is James Horncastle. |
| 1:17.1 | Hello, James. |
| 1:17.9 | By accident. |
| 1:19.4 | And in Barcelona, we've got Paul Belouse. |
| 1:22.3 | Hello, hello. |
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