Chelsea appoint Alonso, Salah lets loose and West Ham woes worsen
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo has Daniel Storey, Tim Spiers and Colin Millar for company on a very newsworthy penultimate Premier League weekend.
It’s Man City who claim the FA Cup and the domestic cup double but runners up Chelsea waste no time in appointing Xabi Alonso as their manager for next season. A coup for BlueCo? Liam Twomey joins us to discuss.
How are Liverpool fans feeling about that news? After seeing their team taken to the cleaners by Villa on Friday, Champions League football isn’t guaranteed and the departing Mo Salah has his say about where the team’s gone wrong.
West Ham slip deeper into the relegation mire with a 3-1 defeat against Newcastle. They must win their last game and hope Spurs lose their final two matches in order to stay up.
Bruno Fernandes equals the all-time Premier League assist record in Man United’s victory over Forest. And it’s a great afternoon for Bournemouth in the race for European football and the Cherries didn’t even play.
Plus Hearts miss out on a first title in 61 years after a dramatic finale at Celtic Park.
Produced by Charlie Jones
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Newcastle 3-1 West Ham (02:00)
• PART 2a: Man City win the FA Cup (15:00)
• PART 2b: Chelsea appoint Alonso with Liam Twomey (23:00)
• PART 3a: Man United 3-2 Nottingham Forest (37:00)
• PART 3b: Leeds 1-0 Brighton (45:00)
• PART 3c: Brentford 2-2 Crystal Palace (46:00)
• PART 3d: Everton 1-3 Sunderland (47:00)
• PART 3e: Wolves 1-1 Fulham (51:00)
• PART 4a: Celtic pip Hearts to the title (56:00)
• PART 4b: Villa smash Liverpool as Salah lets loose (67:00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Totally full-ball show. |
| 0:11.1 | Today, there's Tattie, there's Shabby, |
| 0:13.6 | and there's Man City cleaning up in the FA Cup |
| 0:16.2 | with a very tidy goal from Antoine Semino. |
| 0:19.6 | We'll discuss what happened in City's latest win at Wembley, |
| 0:22.8 | Alonzo for Chelsea, and whether it's Solonzo for Pep. |
| 0:25.7 | And we'll catch up on the weekend's other stories. |
| 0:28.1 | West Ham's collapse in the northeast. |
| 0:30.1 | Mo Salah hitting the post on Instagram, |
| 0:32.6 | sparking a fresh leadership crisis for labouring Liverpool. |
| 0:35.9 | All that and Celtic Hearts too in this Totally Football Show. |
| 0:40.3 | Hello there. |
| 0:44.6 | It's Sunday night with Totally Football Show. |
| 0:47.4 | Many thanks for joining us. |
| 0:49.7 | Today's show coming to you on Sunday, the 70 in May or thereafter if you're listening to it in podcast format. But many thanks if you're choosing to join us on our YouTube channel. Here in the studio, Tim Spears is with us. How's it going? Haley James. Pretty good, thanks, Tim and yourself. Very good, thank you. You've got a little kind of bounce to you. No idea why, but let's go with it. |
| 1:12.1 | One week to the end of the season? |
| 1:13.1 | That's it. |
| 1:13.6 | That's the one. |
| 1:14.6 | That's the one. Look at you, Colin. You've got your holidays already planned. Oh yeah, everything mapped. I'm on the beach already. Excellent. Good. Let's see how this performance goes. very much not on the beach ever |
| 1:25.2 | unless it's in the city islands occasionally |
| 1:27.7 | Daniel's story |
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