Chelsea humbled, City swept aside but Eze blasts Arsenal through
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo is joined by Charlie Eccleshare, Liam Twomey and Jay Harris to discuss last night's Champions League action.
Eze and Rice open up Leverkusen's stoic defence to earn a quarter final with Sporting Club de Portugal. That after Sporting completed a miraculous comeback against Bodo, winning 3-0 to make it 3-3 on aggregate, before scoring two in extra time to turn the tie around.
City and Chelsea's comebacks didn't go so well as PSG beat Rosenior's side 3-0 and City lost 2-1 to Real Madrid in Manchester after Bernardo Silva was sent off for a handball on the line
Plus the remarkable CAF appeal board ruling to overturn Senegal's AFCON title & Brentford vs Wolves.
Produced by Charlie Jones and Jesse Howard.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Rundown of the results (0.40)
• PART 2a: City 1-2 Madrid (05.12)
• PART 2b: Chelsea 0-3 PSG (11.05)
• PART 3a: Chelsea’s PL fine (22.25)
• PART 3b: Arsenal 2-0 Leverkusen (28.45)
• PART 3c: Sporting 5-0 Bodo (34.15)
• PART 4a: AFCON title overturned (37.55)
• PART 4b: Some Calcio updates (44.00)
• PART 4c: Brentford 2-2 Wolves (46.37)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.4 | Tony Football Show today, Tuesday |
| 0:11.8 | on English teams and the causes of English teams at the Etihad. |
| 0:16.2 | Mancidi had their manager in check, but not. |
| 0:18.7 | Unfortunately, Real Madrid at Sanford Bridge. |
| 0:22.3 | Chelsea do at least get penalties, |
| 0:24.1 | but only the ones from the Premier League as they go 8-2 down on aggregate to PSG. |
| 0:28.1 | We talked that. |
| 0:29.1 | Arsenal safely past Leverkusen, |
| 0:30.6 | sporting, giving Bodo's fairy tale run |
| 0:32.3 | a grim ending and more. |
| 0:33.8 | Plus, Tuesday's shock Afcon news, |
| 0:36.4 | Brentford Wolves, Ashley Cole, and more in this Totally Football show. |
| 0:42.7 | It's a big totally football show for you, |
| 0:45.7 | extra one on the Wednesday because we've had a lot going on on Tuesday night. |
| 0:49.2 | Here in the studio, we've got the Athletics senior tennis writer Charlie Equichere. |
| 0:55.4 | Hello. He dabbles in football, luckily enough. Liam Toomey, there you are, Liam, of the Athletic, very much on the Chelsea beat. |
| 1:03.2 | Yes. Yes. I'm feeling very good about my prediction the last time I was on this show that Chelsea might prefer to draw PSG than Newcastle. |
| 1:10.5 | Right, right. Well, you never know what could have happened against Newcastle. Yeah, of course. Could have been worse. I mean, that was slightly more measured at the weekend, but yes. And also here with us, Jay Harris of the athletic, currently Spurs correspondent. I feel like right now I'm Spurs, Brentford and Afcon correspondent. Just all rolled into one. Something we were just touching on before we actually started today's show is whether you have a relegation clause in your contract. I'm still negotiating that with my agent, but, you know, Brentford have already reached out to me. Some fans have said, I'm working back whenever I want. Are you interested, like, because a lot of fans in a sort of, I don't know, way to protect |
| 1:46.9 | themselves, maybe emotionally are like, you know what, maybe it wouldn't be so bad. |
| 1:50.5 | Maybe it would be quite fun, you know, go to different grounds. |
| 1:52.9 | Where's your head at as reporter-wise? |
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