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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

Better from the waist down

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

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

4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo is joined by Duncan Alexander, David Preece and Tom Williams to round up the Premier League's midweek games and look ahead to Chelsea v City et al. Plus: the lowdown on Ralph Hasenhüttl; Alisson v Ederson; and Monaco or bustRUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: An odd edition of Man U v Arsenal (02m 10s)• PART 2a: Fulham 1 - 1 Leicester - and United v Fulham preview (09m 30s)• PART 2b: Much love for Wolves as Chelsea flounder… (13m 50s)
 • PART 2c: …with City next (20m 30s)• PART 2d: Bournemouth v Liverpool preview (27m 20s)• PART 3: Who is Ralph Hasenhüttl? - with Rafa Honigstein (38m 00s) • PART 4: Time to talk about Brighton and the rest of the PL weekend (45m 50s) • PART 5a: Scotland, Checkatrade, Europe and MLS news (52m 50s)• PART 5b: The odds with Paddy Power’s Lee Price (61m 50s)• PART 6: The langoustine incident / Exeunt omnes (63m 40s) GET IN TOUCH:
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0:00.0

It's December, so the games are like Trump on Air Force One, coming thick and fast.

0:09.5

In Manchester, United Host Arsenal in a game as entertaining as that dog sprinting on to save a goal in Argentina,

0:15.4

although not quite at the same high technical level.

0:17.8

At Molyneux, it's wolves, handing Chelsea another defeat.

0:21.3

While at Wembley, there's a bow for Saints' new manager, Ralph Hazen-Huttle.

0:25.2

There's so much more to talk about as we round up all the midweek games and look forward

0:28.6

to the weekend's action.

0:29.7

We talk Chelsea's bubble bursting, my langistine hell, and more in this not award-winning,

0:35.3

totally football show in association with Paddy Power. Listener, your ears the only award we'll ever need. And in the pod today for them, Tom Williams. Hello. Hi, Tom. Hi, James. Author of Do you speak football? Indeed. Excellent. David Pree, Skullkeeper, podcaster, friend.

0:55.3

Nice to have you back, David. It's nice to be, but it's been a while, isn't it? It certainly has. I've been banished away with the under 18s for a few months. Read nothing too into that. Duncan Alexander, from Opta, but not Opta no good. Well, not at this exact moment. No. All right, well, a big round of game since we last were with you.

0:54.5

What did you make of the midweek round, Tom? Very interesting, very fun. All Premier League team scoring in a match week for the first time, Duncan Sims. It's November 2010. November 2010. Although they didn't technically all score, did they? Well, are we talking now in

1:27.5

goals? Yeah, we are. I'm not sure that's worth an asterisk. But with the stats, does that still count?

1:32.6

Well, it counts as a team goal. Marino might beg to differ on these things, but yeah, generally

1:37.8

it would count. Okay, well that's important. Any other conclusions? Well, I think one of the

1:42.2

conclusions is that increasingly, we look like we're looking at a two-horse

1:46.2

title race and a three-horse race for the remaining Champions League places.

1:50.6

There's now a six-point gap between Liverpool in second and Tottenham in third,

1:55.5

and then between Arsenal in 5th and Everton in 6, there's an 8-point gap.

1:59.4

So table is starting to coalesce into some sort of form.

2:04.3

Absolutely.

2:05.1

All right.

2:05.5

What kind of form we'll be talking about that in today's show?

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