Can Liverpool sink any lower? How high can Arsenal fly?

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

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🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo has Duncan Alexander, Charlie Eccleshare and Liam Tharme alongside him in Totally Towers to look back on an incident-filled Wednesday night of Champions League action - and to look ahead to MD13 in the Premier League.

Liverpool's season reached a new nadir at Anfield, beaten 4-1 by PSV to make in 9 defeats in their last 12 games for Arne Slot's side. Andy Jones was at the game and drops by to talk us through the latest horror show for the Reds.

Arsenal meanwhile maintained their perfect start in the Champions League as they inflicted a first defeat of the season on Bayern Munich in their 3-1 win. Just how good was that second half performance in particular for the Gunners?

No such luck for Tottenham - beaten 5-3 in a rollercoaster game at PSG - but are there at least reasons to be positive unlike last weekend's dismal showing in the North London derby? Jay Harris joins us live from the Gare du Nord to reflect on Spurs' showing.

Then it's all eyes on the upcoming Premier League weekend - and a top of the table clash as Chelsea host Arsenal at Stamford Bridge no less.

Elsewhere, can Man City get back to winning ways against Leeds? Is West Ham just about the worst place for Liverpool to go in need of a result on Sunday? And are Wolves seriously going to find a way to stay up!?

Produced by Charlie Jones and Lucy Oliva.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1a: Hellos and reasons to be thankful (00.45)

• PART 1b: Wednesday night's Champions League action (02.15)

• PART 2: Liverpool 1-4 PSV with Andy Jones (05.05)

• PART 3: Arsenal 3-1 Bayern Munich (15.10)

• PART 4: PSG 5-3 Tottenham with Jay Harris (24.45)

• PART 5a: MD13 in the Premier League (30.15)

• PART 5b: Chelsea v Arsenal preview (32.15)

• PART 5c: West Ham v Liverpool preview (36.30)

• PART 5d: The relegation picture (39.30)

• PART 5e: Nottingham Forest v Brighton preview (44.40)

• PART 5f: The rest of the weekend's action (47.30)

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC
0:03.0	Totally Football Show, big Wednesday in the Champions League,
0:14.0	PSG, PSV and Arsenal on a buy-and spree in a big week for those.
0:19.6	We ask, after Liverpool lose again, will Arnie soon get terminated?
0:23.6	After 5-3 defeat in Paris, is Thomas the Frank engine now out of the tunnel?
0:28.2	And can anything derail this Arsenal?
0:30.8	Could it be Chelsea this weekend?
0:32.9	We'll be looking forward to that big round in the Premier League,
0:35.3	with derbies for the gunners at one end to the goners at the other as wolves travelled to villa and all sorts of other delights in between in this Totally Football Show. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Thursday the 27th of November. Got a bumper, Totally Football Show for you today. With Duncan Alexander, of course. Hello, James. Thank you. What a lovely shirt you're wearing. Thank you, James. Charlie Echo She is here. Hello. In a more nuanced item. But pretty nice. Thank you. Yeah. Also, Liam Darm. Hello, James. Hi. Amor. I think that's a message for all of us there, isn't there?
1:11.2	I hope so. Yeah, that's what it says, by the way, on Lim's a t-shirt. It's Thanksgiving today, isn't it? Is it Thanksgiving? Very much, so. What do you want to give thanks for, Lim? Just everyone here today. Really? Sat around the table, isn't it? Damn, you took mine. Duncan
1:28.0	Probably thanks to UEFA for their Swiss format Really, sat around the table, isn't it? Damn, you took mine.
1:28.0	Duncan.
1:32.1	Probably thanks to UEFA for their Swiss format embracing.
1:38.0	And all the raw drama and jeopardy you experienced at the Emirates on Wednesday night.
1:39.3	Charlie, what about you?
1:45.2	Yeah, I mean, all the goals that we got last night, 42 in nine matches. Yeah.
1:45.9	I mean, editorially, it's a great segue, but a little bit superficial in terms of what you're really expressing.
1:50.7	Well, I mean, I don't know how deep you want me to go, but maybe, you know, can save that for offline.
2:00.7	Um, more right.
2:04.3	Let's do this podcast first, though.
2:06.7	As you say, 42 goals in nine matches,
2:09.4	which was almost twice as many as they were on Tuesday.
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