Behind closed doors
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings football fans. I'm Matt Davis Adams and coming up on this edition of the Totally Football Show. |
| 0:06.9 | Algeria Superior in final that could hardly have been dreary as the biggest deflection since the last time Boris Johnson was asked about that whole bus thing. |
| 0:14.3 | Hands the Desert Foxes, the title of the Kings of Africa. |
| 0:17.4 | Zinidine Zidand tells Gareth Bale, it's not us, it's you as the golf-loving Welsh winger |
| 0:21.4 | misses the cut in Real's pre-season plans. In America, Zlatan Gennas-Latam, by which I mean do some good football stuff and then talk some smack. In a way, only a man sporting a ponytail and goatee in 2019 would have the confidence to do. We'll give Aston Villa a long overdue mention. |
| 0:19.0 | And remember that hoo-har over the new Huddersfield kit. |
| 0:21.6 | Turns out it was just banter. confidence to do. We'll give Ashton Villa a long overdue mention and remember that hoo-har over the new Huddersfield |
| 0:38.4 | kit. |
| 0:39.1 | Turns out it was just banter. |
| 0:41.8 | This is the totally football show in association with Paddy Power. |
| 0:46.7 | Skatman's world. |
| 0:55.5 | Yep, I'm surprised to you listeners. Scatman John World. Yep, I'm surprised to you, listeners. |
| 0:57.3 | Scatman John had more than one tune, |
| 0:59.2 | as if you needed telling, |
| 1:00.3 | that's the eponymous track from the album, |
| 1:02.2 | Scatman's World, |
| 1:03.5 | which reached number one in Belgium, Finland, |
| 1:06.1 | France, Germany, Hungary and Spain, |
| 1:08.0 | but only number 10 in the UK |
| 1:09.3 | and a measly 84 in Australia. It was released on the 19th of June 1995. Duncan Alexander, your back. So is there a link between that song and something particularly vague in the football world that you've in no way pre-pre-prepared? Well, last week we found out, you know, that John Barnes and Rahim Sterling were connected with Scatman. |
| 1:28.7 | It was a bit harder with this one because obviously the song, as you said, came out in June. |
| 1:31.9 | So what I did is I looked up the top scoring player in Premier League history who only ever scored in 1995. |
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