Champions League bonanza, Bayern’s first loss + Mbappe’s Panenka
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo is joined by James Horncastle, Pol Ballus, Seb Stafford-Bloor and Tom Williams to discuss the latest European football.
The Champions League reaches its final game showdown with all 36 teams playing simultaneously on Wednesday night. Might all 6 English teams make the top 8? If so, will Barcelona and Inter face the play offs? Could Conte's Napoli be heading out? Could Bodø/Glimt, Brugge or Mourinho's Benfica sneak in?
Bayern finally lose their first match of the Bundesliga season at home to Augsburg, whilst Dortmund beat Union convincingly ahead of their showdown with Inter. It was a perfect weekend for Chivu's Inter who beat Pisa 6-2 whilst title rivals Napoli were thrashed 3-0 by Juve, with Roma and Milan sharing the points in the capital.
In Spain, Mbappe's Panenka helped him set a European record, and Yamal's worldie in the rain kept Barca 1 point above Real in the La Liga title race. And in France, PSG go back on top via a Bradley Barcola goal and a 1-0 win at Auxerre, with Lens losing 3-1 in the Velodrome thanks to a debut goal from Arsenal's teenage loanee Ethan Nwaneri.
Produced by Lucy Oliva and Jesse Howard.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Moments of the weekend and James’ Neapolitan eats (00.45)
• PART 2: Champions League MD8 (14.05)
• PART 3: Bundesliga review - Bayern finally lose (25.20)
• PART 4: Serie A review - Inter win as title rivals drop points (34.05)
• PART 5: - La Liga - Panenkas and chemtrails (44.30)
• PART 6: Ligue 1 review - PSG back on top (56.35)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.4 | Totally football show, European edition. |
| 0:12.2 | Today, Titanic-Tutonic tidings as Bayern meet an Auxberg. |
| 0:16.9 | At France, we clocked those hot new Liga stars, Endric and Gario Nile. |
| 0:21.7 | Real Madrid, how supporters are believers now in Arbeloa and Italy, |
| 0:25.9 | where there's a Razor de Conte for Antonio in Naples, |
| 0:28.8 | and Inter are taking the piece of two pieces. |
| 0:31.9 | Plus, 18 games at once, your Champions League final round table away to you, Mr. Creosote. |
| 0:36.7 | It's the Totally Football Show. |
| 0:43.6 | Monday, January 26th. |
| 0:45.8 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:47.5 | I'm just excited to bring you a brand new totally football show in the company of Tom Williams, who's here in the studio. |
| 0:53.8 | Hello, James. Hello to you you and spread all across the continent we've got let's see oh |
| 1:00.0 | Paul Belouse in Catalonia here we are hello hello Seb Staff of Bloor in |
| 1:05.7 | Snowy Hamburg hello James and somewhere in Italy James Horncastle. All right, James. |
| 1:11.3 | Hello, Guayu. |
| 1:15.1 | It's Naples, is it? |
| 1:17.3 | It is. |
| 1:18.1 | It's a rainy Naples. |
| 1:19.6 | All right. |
| 1:20.5 | Excellent. |
| 1:21.1 | You went to Yuvai Napoli on Friday night, |
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