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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo is joined by Duncan Alexander, Dan Bardell and Charlie Eccleshare ahead of a mouth-watering Premier League weekend.
Arsenal v Chelsea headlines the weekend as the panel salivate over the damage Romelu Lukaku could do and struggle to understand the signing of Ramsdale. Is Arteta safe from the sack because of the chaos above him?
Nuno returns to Molineux as we ask what he’s changed at Spurs and what resolution the Kane saga will have.
Plus Ant & Dec, Norwegian orgies and the origin story of the swimming pool attendant.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: That Man City third kit (02m 00s)
• PART 1b: Arsenal v Chelsea preview (05m 00s)
• PART 1c: Liverpool, City & United in action (17m 00s)
• PART 2: Wolves v Spurs preview (23m 00s)
• PART 3a: Crystal Palace v Brentford preview (34m 00s)
• PART 3b: The rest of the Premier League weekend (40m 00s)
• PART 4: The odds with Paddy Power (50m 00s)
• PART 5: Lewandowski’s future and a sex scandal in Norway (52m 00s)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:03.5 | This season, the world's biggest football podcast network is even bigger. |
| 0:07.6 | Alongside our three weekly episodes of Totally and the two Totally Football League shows, |
| 0:11.5 | we've got three episodes of the all-new athletic football podcast with Mark Chapman. |
| 0:15.8 | Adam Hurry's football clichés will now be with you on Mondays and Wednesdays. |
| 0:19.3 | There are two lots of Michael Cox on our tactics podcasts, and we've revamped our FPL and women's football shows. Our Liverpool Man United, Chelsea and Tottenham Club podcasts are now twice a week. And don't forget, we've also got our TIFO, Offside Rule and Football Manager shows too. There are also amazing new series with both Kelly Kate's and Jackie Odie coming up later in the year, so stay tuned for those. You can listen to all of these podcasts across our network in all the usual places or ad free on the Athletic app. The Athletic, the world's new totally football show. |
| 1:01.2 | In today's one, |
| 1:02.6 | Match Day 2 approaches like a hell-craze War Vixen on party mix, |
| 1:06.7 | ringing with it talk of Man City Norwich, |
| 1:09.3 | Wall Spurs, Arsenal Chelsea, Fron nodes, Norwegian surveillance, buckets and beach balls, and much, much more. |
| 1:16.3 | Whip yourself then into a state of advanced excitement with this Totally Football Show in association with Paddy Fowah. Hello, listener. |
| 1:32.7 | Thursday the 19th of August as we do this, we have with us, Duncan Alexander, |
| 1:39.0 | a oily sailor. |
| 1:40.9 | Hello, James. |
| 1:42.3 | Good. |
| 1:42.8 | Charlie Ackosha of The View from the Lane is with us too. Hi, Charlie. |
| 1:46.5 | Hi, James. How are you doing? |
| 1:48.1 | Very well, thank you. And Dan Bardell from our bitter arch rivals, the athletic football podcast. All right, Dan. |
| 1:55.0 | Good morning, James. |
| 1:57.0 | You're also representing the 1874 podcast, who we don't mind so much. |
| 2:00.9 | And, judging by my Zoom call with you, the city of Paris today. |
| 2:05.5 | You've got a shirt with the word Paris written all over it. |
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