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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

Sports, Soccer,, Premier League, Champions League, World Cup

4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The Euro Show is back with Jimbo joined by the usual team of Seb Stafford-Bloor, Pol Ballus, James Horncastle and Tom Williams to discuss what’s going on in the continent.

A stoppage time winner for Mallorca against Real Madrid means Barcelona are seven points clear at the top of La Liga, after they came from behind to win 2-1 at Atletico.

In Italy, there’s a statement win at the top for Inter as they beat Roma 5-2 and further reaction to the Azzurri failing to qualify for a third World Cup in a row. PSG’s lead at the top of Ligue 1 stretches to four points after Lens lose 3-0 in Lille.

And in Germany, Bayern Munich also grab a late winner and there’s a nine-goal thriller between Leverkusen and Wolfsburg.

Plus the team look ahead to some mouth-watering Champions League Quarter Finals this week.

Produced by Lucy Oliva and Xavi Bird.

RUNNING ORDER:

PART 1: Moments of the week (7mins)

PART 2: La Liga review – Mallorca topple Real + Barca beat Atleti (20 mins)

PART 3: Ligue 1 review – PSG go four clear (43 mins)

PART 4: Serie A review – Azzurri misery + Inter’s big win (1:00:00)

PART 5: Bundesliga review – Bayern win + Wolfsburg woe (1:17:00)

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC.
0:09.1	Totally football show, European edition.
0:11.9	Today, Champions League quarterfinals and the weekend's moments of wonder.
0:16.2	France, Balogun's beautiful Chip and Campes G. Whittle on Liverpool's.
0:21.0	Italy, the return of Martinez, leaving Roma on the rocks.
0:24.6	What's happened to Italian mummers?
0:26.5	Barcelona against Atletico and Real Madrid facing Bayern Munich.
0:30.4	If the first leg doesn't go well, they can always try the other, like their medical team with Mbapi.
0:35.2	All that and more in this Totally Football show.
0:43.1	It's Monday the 6th of April,
0:45.9	and we've got a brand new Euro show for you,
0:48.2	classic lineup.
0:49.4	Hey, Tom Williams.
0:50.6	Hello, James.
0:51.2	Thanks for being here in the Totally studio.
0:53.7	Pleasure as always, long time to see. It's cozy these days, isn't it? It's been spruced up. It's had what the French call a re-looking. Do they call that? Re-looking. One of the many examples of the French using an English-sounding word that doesn't actually exist in English. It's quite the skill.
1:11.3	The Italians do this with restyling.
1:13.6	And restyling.
1:14.2	There you do.
1:14.4	Although that does very much exist in England.
1:18.1	And indeed, in this studio, I would posit James Horncastle.
1:21.2	So he's freshly back from Copenhagen, amongst other things.
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