Chekhov’s yellow card

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

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

4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Jimbo, Duncan Alexander, Matt Scott and Iain Macintosh gloss over England v Belgium; wave goodbye to Senegal; and look ahead to the Last 16RUNNING ORDER:• PART 1a: England 0 - 1 Belgium - hmmmm (02m 10s)• PART 1b: Japan qualify on fair play - so farewell, Senegal (08m 00s)• PART 1c: The word on Colombia - with Alejandro Farffann (12m 00s)• PART 2a: Highs and lows of the group stages (17m 30s)• PART 2b: Last 16 lookahead and various other permutations (21m 40s) • PART: World Cup odds with Lee Price from Paddy Power (28m 30s)• PART 6: Exeunt omnes (29m 40s)CHARITY NEWS:we’re working with [**CALM, the Campaign Against Living Miserably**](https://www.thecalmzone.net/), who are dedicated to preventing male suicide PARISH NOTICES:• we’re sponsored by [**Paddy Power** - home of the Money Back Special](http://www.paddypower.com/)• [football + intellectualism = **The Game of Our Lives podcast**](https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/game-of-our-lives/id1353981875?mt=2)GET IN TOUCH:• find us on [**Facebook** - home of the Totally Football Quiz](https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/).• send us a [**tweet: @TheTotallyShow**](http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow)

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0:00.0	Totally the World Cup.
0:02.0	On my count, three, two, one.
0:08.0	Unbelievable, unbelievable this.
0:14.0	The Lord!
0:16.0	Oh my God, it it's sate!
0:23.2	Yes, yes.
0:25.5	Oh, yes, yes, yes.
0:31.5	Unbelievable, unbelievable this.
0:34.1	A cup of day 15 ahead of the knockout stages, a round of induced coma.
0:38.8	England, Belgium, in the biggest battle for seconds since Oliver Twist.
0:43.0	Elsewhere, fair play to Japan who got beat but still qualify, thanks to fewer bookings than My Barber,
0:48.2	but it's goodbye to Senegal who are now on the airplane because they didn't do enough fair plane.
0:52.9	Friday's arrest days and we'll be casting our minds forward to the last
0:56.1	16 as World Cup 2018
0:57.8	gets very real.
1:04.4	Hello everybody.
1:08.3	On board today, Duncan Alexander.
1:10.0	Hello.
1:10.4	Ian McIntosh and Matt Scott. Hello. Here's a shock stat for you. There's only 25% of this World Cup left, A. Duncan. It's true. I mean, you could argue the best 25%, or you might say not the last World Cup. Everyone loved the group stages, and then it's sort of tailed off other than the, you know, Germany 7 Brazil 1.
1:29.0	Luckily, there's no sign of anything tailing off in this World Cup. Since you love stats, here's a couple more for you. This is the first time since 1982 that there's going to be no African representation in the knockout stages of the World Cup. It's also the first time in history today, Thursday, that a team has been
1:45.7	eliminated from a major tournament on fair play rules. And that, of course, was Senegal. Poor old
1:52.1	Senegal. What is fair play? It's an existential debate because Japan were not going for anything
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