Can Chelsea make it three FA Cup final defeats in a row for City?
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo sits down in the studio with Duncan Alexander, Charlie Eccleshare, Natalie Gedra with a flying visit from Phil Hay as the FA Cup Final approaches and the title races in England and Scotland go right down to the wire.
There’s no blinking from Manchester City who beat Crystal Palace 3-0 to reduce the gap with Arsenal at the top of the Premier League to two points again. The Gunners host already-relegated Burnley on Monday.
City have to deal with the small matter of the FA Cup Final against Chelsea before then. Is an improbable domestic treble still on for Pep Guardiola’s men? Or can interim Blues boss Calum McFarlane put a spanner in the works?
VAR has certainly put a spanner in the celebration plans for Hearts in Scotland. Celtic awarded a 99th minute penalty to win 3-2 at Motherwell and take the Scottish Premiership title race to a final day showdown between the top two.
Can West Ham use last week’s disappointment to get a positive result against Newcastle in their fight for Premier League survival?
And Hull will play Southampton in the Championship Playoff Final, or will they? The team chat all things Spygate plus look ahead to all the rest of the weekend’s action.
Produced by Charlie Jones & Xavi Bird
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Double screening (03:00)
• PART 2: FA Cup Final - Chelsea v Man City (7:00)
• PART 3a: Premier League title race (22:00)
• PART 3b: Premier League relegation battle (35:00)
• PART 4: Scottish Premiership title race with Phil Hay (42:00)
• PART 5a: Championship Playoff Spygate (52:00)
• PART 5b: The rest of the Premier League weekend (1:00:00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC. |
| 0:10.4 | Totally football show. Today, drama, as the season roars towards its climax. |
| 0:16.0 | There's Chelsea looking for victory, saints looking for a bigger tree, spurs themselves not yet out of the woods. |
| 0:22.6 | We'll be asking, can West Ham keep the relegation race alive at Newcastle? |
| 0:26.5 | Can Chelsea do a Wigan against Man City in the Cup final? |
| 0:29.7 | And should Middlesbrough call the cops or look behind one? |
| 0:33.1 | Plus, heart stopper. |
| 0:34.6 | We relive Wednesday's last-minute drama in Scotland and look ahead to the weekend's climax north of the border. All that and much, much more in this Totally Football Show. Thursday the 14th of May, it's a big hello to you from the Totally Football Show, which today, welcome us back Natalie Jedra. Hey, Jimbo. Of Sky Sports. Yes. How are you, Natalie? I'm good. I'm good. Busy end of the season, right? Busy doing what? Yeah, a lot of games, a lot of games. Games, yes. Shoots, interviews. It's been an exciting end of the season. Last week I spoke to Ryan Shirky, but I've been working on a documentary with Sky about Brazilians in the |
| 1:12.2 | Premier League and the, yeah. Yeah, so it's been fun. Nice. Okay. Well, maybe we can hear a little |
| 1:17.7 | bit more about that later on, but there's plenty to talk about, A, Duncan Alexander. Lots. |
| 1:22.4 | So much that Scottish football has become super interesting. Yeah. I was double screening it last night. |
| 1:29.4 | You were watching the Celtic game. |
| 1:32.1 | The Celtic game mainly, but then also, you know, keeping an eye at Time Castle as you do. |
| 1:36.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.4 | And yeah, it was flabbergasting what happened at the end. |
| 1:41.5 | We'll talk more about that later on because Phil Hay will be joining us ahead of what's going to be the decisive weekend in the greatest title race. |
| 1:50.8 | Possibly Scotland has ever seen. I don't know. We'll check with Phil. |
| 1:54.2 | Charlie Okosha. |
| 1:55.7 | You, football's so good. You come back from Rome to see it. |
| 1:58.6 | Exactly, yeah. |
| 1:59.5 | Swat Rome for turning over to the Celtic game in the 94th minute, which was a really good decision. Excellent. You've been at the Italian Open, I should explain, covering tennis, which is fine, but it's not this week in football, is it? It's not the 94th minute of Celtic. Or the 90, whatever minute it was for Arsenal West Ham last weekend which you witnessed in a |
| 2:19.5 | yes in the media room uh in Rome right I mean the four Oitalico yeah just next to the Stadio |
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