Chelsea sack Rosenior ahead of Leeds semi… and will goal difference decide the title?
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Matt Davies-Adams is in the chair alongside Duncan Alexander, Benji Lanyado and Jay Harris as Chelsea say goodbye to another manager and Manchester City go top.
Liam Rosenior is OUT at Chelsea after overseeing their worst run of form since 1912. Calum McFarlane takes interim charge for the rest of the campaign. Can he oversee a win against Leeds in the FA Cup this Sunday?
Much better news for Manchester City, who have moved top of the Premier League for the first time since the opening weekend. A 1-0 win at Burnley relegates the Clarets and sends Pep Guardiola’s men above Arsenal on goals scored. Will they still be there at the end of May? They take on Southampton in the other semi-final this weekend.
Plus, the team look ahead to the rest of the weekend’s action. Can the Gunners move back ahead of City with a win against Newcastle? Will relegated Wolves drag Spurs down with them?
And with Leicester marking the ten-year anniversary of winning the Premier League by being relegated to League One, we ask what other unthinkable things might be happening in the world of football in a decade’s time.
Produced by Charlie Jones and Xavi Bird
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: What will football look like in 10 years? (2 mins)
• PART 2: Chelsea sack Rosenior (6 mins)
• PART 3a: Chelsea v Leeds (19 mins)
• PART 3b: Man City v Southampton (27 mins)
• PART 4a: Arsenal v Newcastle (42 mins)
• PART 4b: Wolves v Tottenham (50 mins)
• PART 4c: West Ham v Everton (56 mins)
• PART 4d: Rest of the Premier League (61 mins)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC. |
| 0:03.1 | The Athletic Fee |
| 0:03.3 | Total Football Show today. |
| 0:12.7 | This will shock you. |
| 0:13.4 | Liam Rossini got sacked. |
| 0:14.9 | We'll discuss the latest |
| 0:15.9 | Blue Co-O-No ahead of the |
| 0:17.6 | FA Cup semis. |
| 0:19.1 | It's Chelsea versus Leeds, |
| 0:20.5 | for old time's sake, |
| 0:21.7 | whilst newly anointed Premier League leaders, |
| 0:23.5 | Manchester City looked to halt the Saints march. |
| 0:26.5 | Elsewhere, Arsenal tried to take back top spot, |
| 0:29.0 | and there's some big basement battles after Burnley Bowenly bow out. |
| 0:32.0 | All that and more to come. |
| 0:33.1 | On this, Totally Football Show. this totally football show. |
| 0:46.2 | It's Thursday the 23rd of April. |
| 0:53.1 | For us, listener slash viewer on YouTube, it's me, Matt Davis-Adams, and I have got three very special guests with me, |
| 0:54.4 | Doug and Alexander, how are you? Hello, Matt. I'm good. How are you? Yeah, I'm all right, thank you. Jay Harris is on board too. You're all good, do you? Yeah, yeah, can't complain. Benji Lanyardo, CEO of Pickfair. How are you? I'm good. Thanks, MDA. right then lester city have been relegated to league one honestly producer charlie put |
| 1:13.1 | this at the top of the running order it wasn't forest fan me uh 10 years after being crowned |
| 1:17.0 | champions of england naturally then we want to know what's going to happen in 10 years that we couldn't |
| 1:22.1 | possibly predict now benjia i know you've got a load of excellent suggestions, but let's put those on |
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