Como & Roma in the Champions League as Milan crash out of top four
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
It’s the final Euro show of the season and Jimbo is joined by the usual gang of Pol Ballús, James Horncastle, Tom Williams and a flying visit from Seb Stafford-Bloor to discuss how it’s all panned out on the Continent.
In Italy, AC Milan let Champions League football slip on the final day, letting go of a 1-0 lead against Cagliari to lose 2-1 and allow Roma and Como to finish in the top four. It’s the first time Como have ever qualified for Europe! But there are grim scenes at the Turin derby, where kick off between Juventus and Torino is delayed for an hour due to clashes between fans.
Spain have named their World Cup squad without any Real Madrid players for the first time ever. Are they one of the favourites for the whole tournament? The domestic season finishes with Girona and Mallorca being relegated alongside Real Oviedo, but there’s still more to come for Rayo Vallecano who face Crystal Palace in the Conference League Final on Wednesday.
Lens have won the Coupe de France for the first time in their history, beating Nice 3-1 in the Final. The team also look ahead to Ligue 1 winners PSG’s Champions League Final against Arsenal.
Harry Kane is yet again the man for Bayern Munich as he scores a hattrick in the DFB Pokal Final against Stuttgart to secure a domestic double for the Bavarians.
Plus – second division side Torreense shock Sporting CP to win the Taca de Portugal.
Produced by Lucy Oliva & Xavi Bird.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Moments of the weekend (3:00)
• PART 2: Serie A review – Joy for Como and Roma, but what’s going on at Milan? (15:00)
• PART 3: La Liga review – No Real Madrid players for Spain and final day heartbreak for Mallorca & Girona (34:00)
• PART 4a: Harry Kane wins the Pokal (49:00)
• PART 4b: Torreense shock Sporting (52:00)
• PART 4c: Lens win Coupe de France (55:00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Totally Football Show |
| 0:10.5 | European edition |
| 0:11.6 | Today Harry Kane puts on his |
| 0:13.5 | Pupacal Paucault face |
| 0:14.8 | Marco Lofato |
| 0:16.6 | Comer and Roma |
| 0:17.9 | win the Champions League race in Italy |
| 0:19.5 | There's Friday night launch |
| 0:20.8 | Clear Eyes and Four Hearts and the Coupe de France and La Liga the return of Deportique Comer and Roma win the Champions League race in Italy. There's Friday night launch, clear eyes for four hearts, |
| 0:22.1 | and the Coup de France, and La Liga, the return of Deportivo, |
| 0:25.4 | and no Spain, plenty of pain for the folks at Real. |
| 0:28.4 | All that and more in this totally football show. Monday, Monday, 25th of May, hey, everybody. |
| 0:48.1 | It's the European edition of the Tony Football Show. |
| 0:51.0 | Bittersweet because it's our final one of the season. |
| 0:55.2 | Bitter, because we've still got an hour of it. Sweet, because it's our final one of the season. Bitter, because we've still got an hour of it. Sweet because it's our final one of the season. Yay. Tom Williams is here. Hello, James. Nice to see you, Tom. Yeah, it's been a while. Change Horncastle. That's right, James. There will be a totally work-up show, weren't they? Yeah, yeah, yeah. every night stroke morning. Wow. Yeah. |
| 1:12.2 | And there'll be previews. There will be a totally World Cup show, weren't they? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Every night stroke morning. |
| 1:12.7 | Wow. |
| 1:13.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.2 | And there'll be previews. Oh, yeah, there'll be previews. You know what else there'll be? Paul Belouse on the big screen. Hey, Paul Belues. Hello, hello, guys. How's everything? Yeah, pretty good. Pretty good. I can tell. I can tell James is having an ice time drinking something that looks a bit familiar to me. |
| 1:29.1 | Well, thanks for bringing that up time, drinking something that looks a bit familiar to me. |
| 1:29.1 | Well, thanks for bringing that up and, you know, in a conversational sense, Paul, |
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