Barca flying, Bayern drop points again + De Zerbi stays but so do Marseille's woes
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
James is joined in the Totally studio by James Horncastle, Tom Williams and Seb Stafford-Bloor with Pol Ballus joining from Barcelona as the Euro crew assemble to discuss this week's continental happenings.
Bayern Munich have dropped points for a second weekend running in the Bundesliga. Seb was in the Volksparkstadion to see Hamburg draw 2-2 with the league leaders, meaning they are now 6 points clear of 2nd place Dortmund.
In Spain, Real left it late to beat Rayo Vallecano 2-1 with Mbappe's winner coming in the 10th minute of injury time. That kept them within one point of Barca who comfortably beat Elche away 3-1 with goals from Yamal, Rashford and Ferran Torres.
No change at the top of Serie A with Inter and Napoli both winning and second placed Milan still to play Bologna Tuesday night. Same story in France where Lens and PSG both won, but Marseille's horror week continued as they blew a 2-0 lead to draw 2-2 with Paris FC.
Plus Timo Werner's favourite Döner house & Antony spins again.
Produced by Lucy Oliva and Jesse Howard.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Moment of the week (0.40)
• PART 2a: Bundesliga review - Bayern drop more points (10.50)
• PART 3a: Ligue 1 review - Marseille in meltdown (25.20)
• PART 4a: Serie A review - Inter sitting pretty (37.10)
• PART 5a: La Liga review - Top 2 win (53.30)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Totally football show |
| 0:10.8 | European edition today |
| 0:12.6 | in Pan Continental News |
| 0:13.9 | Barr Hamburg |
| 0:15.3 | FC Bayern's slump continues |
| 0:17.3 | Madrid's having a mayor |
| 0:19.5 | Liga there's mess in Marseilles and no Jacques required for Wren. Karnaseki for Atalanta and he's Vergara and he plays in Naples so he's Vergadona. It's all together here in the totally football shows studios with us James Horncastle |
| 0:53.6 | Hello James I'm James lovely to you. Tom Williams is back as well. Hello, James. Tom's loving your French updates. Thanks. Thank you. I've got good news because there's more on the way. Did you scan for sarcasm there when you? I was just waiting for a bunch line just in case just in case straight up just yeah |
| 1:11.8 | well I'm just so misjudged |
| 1:14.3 | Paul Belous is with us |
| 1:16.5 | from Catalonia hi Paul Belouse |
| 1:18.5 | Hello hello how are you |
| 1:20.1 | Very well thank you so much |
| 1:22.0 | And also and here in the studio |
| 1:24.1 | It's Seb Stap for blah |
| 1:26.1 | Blubleblow blah blah |
| 1:27.1 | Thanks too much Right Right In the studio, it's Seb, staff of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:28.7 | Thanks to both. |
| 1:30.4 | Right. |
| 1:31.7 | Seb, just giving you a little extra sound effect on the India name there. |
| 1:35.7 | Because it's very special to have you here in the building. |
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