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Totally football show. Color me a sickly green as Greg Gaps in latest FAA blunder.

Elsewhere, Euro playoffs, Scotland and Northern Ireland prepare to make big life choices that will shape their summers.

There's a return of the absolutely necessary Nations League, a big weekend in the WSL, and does wood rhyme with mud.

Bobby Bowler thinks so.

This is the Totally Football Show in association with Adi Powell.

Yes, welcome in listener, totally coming to you slightly earlier than normal so we can look ahead to those big Euro playoffs on Thursday. But who is we? Well, I'm Matt Davis-Adams, continuing to keep the seat warm for Jimbo for just a little while longer. I'm joined by Dominic Fyfield of the Athletic and its non-award-winning Chelsea podcast straight out of Cobham. Hi, Dom. Hey, Matt. How you doing? I am very well, thank you. Lindsay Hooper, BBC Final Score, PL on Prime, Premier League Productions, the offside rule, fingers in pies, basically, also joins us. Hi, Lindsay. I thought that list was never going to end. I thought you've gone through my backdated CV. It's good to have options. It's good to have options. That's one thing we found being self-employed in 2020. And last, but first, when it comes to stats at least, it's OptaZone, Duncan Alexander. How are you doing, Duncan? Hello, Matt. I'm good. How are you? All right, yeah, still sort of reveling in Forrest's momentous victory over with him. We had more trucks on target. That's the real quiz. Yeah, well, certainly for you, it is, yeah.

I'm afraid away from the joviality, we'll have to talk about Greg Clark first up.

The former FAA chairman appearing before a parliamentary hearing with members of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport,

to explain the effect of the pandemic on English football in the FAA's less than stellar response,

as well as Clark's own murky role in the FAA's less than stellar response, as well as

Clark's own murky role in the abandoned project big picture slash power grab. Clark ended up

offending everybody, talking himself out of a job with a bunch of statements that range from

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