Bellingham shines in dramatic Clasico as Juve show Tudor the door

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

Soccer, Unknown, Soccer,, Sports, Football

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo’s got James Horncastle with him in the studio and Seb Stafford-Bloor, Pol Ballús and Julien Laurens in far flung corners of Germany and Spain for your weekly round up of European footballing fun.

There’s only one place to start - and that’s with events at the Santiago Bernabéu on Sunday afternoon as Real put an end to Barca’s recent Clásico dominance in typically tempestuous and dramatic fashion.

Over in Italy, it was eight games without a win too many for Igor Tudor - dismissed by Juventus after their 1-0 defeat at Lazio. Meanwhile, Napoli went back top but lost KDB in bizarre circumstances - and back-flipping Jamie Vardy opened his Cremonese account!

In a shock twist of fate Harry Kane *didn’t* score for Bayern Munich this weekend, but it didn’t matter as they made it 13 wins from 13 games in all competitions in their 3-0 victory at Gladbach. Closest challengers Leipzig continued their sensational form as they put six past Augsburg.

And in Ligue 1, PSG are back on top thanks to their 3-0 win at Brest - taking full advantage of the defeat handed out to Marseille by high-flying Lens who are now up to second in the table!

All that plus - cancelled holidays in Miami, unsightly gestures and plenty of ill-tempered confrontations.

Produced by Lucy Oliva.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1: Moments of the weekend - and top-secret snails… (00.45)

• PART 2: La Liga Review - Jude stars as Yamal starts arguments (10.30)

• PART 3: Ligue 1 review - PSG back on top as Lyon continue to surprise (24.35)

• PART 4: Serie A review - Tudor no more as Napoli return to winning ways (30.45)

• PART 5: Bundesliga review - Leipzig on fire and Karl only scores bangers (48.10)

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0:00.0	The Athletic F.C.
0:10.2	Totally football show.
0:12.3	European edition.
0:13.3	Today, the old lady, two doors down.
0:16.7	No wins in eight, no goals in four, leaves Yuve Igor for change.
0:21.2	Elsewhere, Yarmal and your mama, we round up the good, the rude and the jude in an ill-tempered class ago.
0:27.1	There's more Borussia busting for Bayern, Laurence en-Lons, and as you were in the league,
0:31.5	and a bit of Jamie Vardy and handbags and big Macs in Napoli, Inter 2 in this totally football show.
0:44.5	Thank you for me. bags and Big Macs in Napoli, Inter 2 in this totally football show. Monday the 27th of October.
0:47.4	Hey, listener.
0:48.8	It's a lonely old studio today.
0:50.1	Just myself and James Horncastle here.
0:52.4	Hi, James.
0:53.1	It's like when we used to do stuff on T&T.
0:56.4	Yeah.
0:56.7	Yeah, but with more viewers.
1:01.1	That's indeed.
1:02.3	Bigger audience.
1:03.8	Yeah.
1:05.4	Paul Ballouz is on the line from Catalonia.
1:08.3	I am, I am.
1:09.2	Yeah, straight back from Madrid, from the classical. Seb's with us too. Seb's Stafford Blur. Hello, Jimbo. Nice to see you, Seb. And not saying there's much to see in Lee Gung, but Jules, you've gone on holiday. That's right. It's half term for the kids, you know, so you need to get them entertained. All right. Where did you join us from, Jules? From Frette Ventura, not far from Paul Ballouz. Well, I mean, in a way, you're closer to Africa than to Barcelona. True, but it's still your own country. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah. Okay, what's the temperature, George? It's very hot. It's very nice. I know, you know, I know there's a storm in Europe, in, you know, Western Europe and stuff like that. But here, no storm is beautiful. Even though you're in Spain and close to. Yes. In the same. Your own microclimate.
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