Boring Barcelona, durable Dortmund and Champions League matchday 3
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo welcomes the Euro crew of James Horncastle, Raphael Honigstein, Alvaro Romeo and Julien Laurens into The Athletic studio.
Another big week in the Champions League with Group F again the star attraction. Hear why Newcastle’s opponents Dortmund are one of the best teams in Europe. And can Milan finally produce a big away performance at PSG?
The top 3 in Spain are separated by just a point with Girona continuing to surprise all. But even with another Barca youngster emerging, shouldn’t Xavi have them playing better football?
It’s a good weekend for Francesco Farioli’s Nice and a terrible one for Fabio Grosso’s Lyon. While in Germany, Union Berlin slip to an 8th defeat in a row.
Plus Inter are back on top of Serie A and Mourinho is back to his trolling best.
Produced by Charlie Jones.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Moment of the weekend (02.30)
• PART 2: Previewing Wednesday’s Champions League action (11.30)
• PART 3a: Tuesday’s Champions League action (28.00)
• PART 3b: Real, Barca and Girona separated by a point (36.00)
• PART 4: Inter back on top and Mourinho back trolling (42.00)
• PART 5a: Leverkusen win again but it’s 8 defeats in a row for Union (55.00)
• PART 5b: Contrasting fortunes for Italian managers in France (61.00)
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| 0:50.5 | Today we have a niece up in League Un, |
| 0:53.3 | Berlin hitting a wall, Roma Monza, jeers and tears, |
| 0:56.7 | Iax, relegation fears, and another Baster teenage prodigy appears. There's an Andy Carroll |
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| 1:24.6 | Monday the 23rd of October. |
| 1:44.1 | It's a special early Euro show for us today because Champions League looms large in the Diaries of James Horncastle. Hello. Julian Laurent. Bonjour. Alvaro Romeo. Ola. And Raphael Honekstein. Hi. Hi. Nice to have us all together in the same studio. So nice. So, so nice. I've missed you. |
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