Couldn’t defend for butter

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

World Cup, Premier League, Champions League, Sports, Soccer,

4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

With all major European leagues suspending football amid the coronavirus pandemic, we discuss with Rory Smith where the authorities go from here and when we might see football played again.Turning back the clock, we look at the greatest title race in Premier League history and review the 2013-14 season. A time of Ozil, Di Canio and when Liverpool had a title taken away from them.Plus we finally have time for conversations on dribbling, Nicolas Anelka and Love Is Blind.RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Coming up today (01m 00s) • PART 2: The future of football with Rory Smith (04m 00s)• PART 3: Your questions – season simulator, favourite games and dribblers (12m 30s)• PART 4: Zombie football: our look back at the 13/14 season (29m 00s) GET IN TOUCH:• follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/totallyfootballshow/)• find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/)• send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow (http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow) PARISH NOTICES:• we’re sponsored by Paddy Power - home of the Money Back Special (http://www.paddypower.com/) READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE:• check out thetotallyfootballshow.com (http://thetotallyfootballshow.com/) .

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0:00.0	Mudini's Media.
0:08.8	Totally football show today.
0:11.5	COVID-19, football zero.
0:14.2	Yes, the game is literally gone.
0:17.0	We're still here, though, and we've never been more vital.
0:19.6	As today we field your questions,
0:21.4	tell you how the season would have ended,
0:23.3	and boldly reanimate the moldy corpse of a long dead season
0:26.3	for some zombie football,
0:28.4	featuring Michael Cox's favourite game ever.
0:31.2	Woof.
0:31.7	It's the totally no football show,
0:33.8	in association with Paddy Power.
0:42.9	Unbelievable, unbelievable. show in association with Patty Power. It is impossible to keep track of all the football, but your best chance is here.
0:47.5	Thousands and thousands of hours of football, each more climactic than the last.
0:51.8	Constant dizzying, 24-hour, year-long, endless football. Every kick of it massively mattering to someone, presumably. Yep, Halcyon days. Mitchell and Webb got their wish. No football all the time. Listen, how are you doing? Are you at home? Are you heading into work? If you're unwell, get well soon, all those kind of things. Here in the studio,
1:11.8	we are joined by Tom Williams. Hi, Tom. Hello, James. Also in is Michael Cox.
1:16.9	Hi, James. Hi, Michael. And Patient Zero. James Horncastle is here with us. Hello, James.
1:22.4	Hi there. Fresh back from singing opera off your balcony, I imagine. You're Italian.
1:27.1	No, I was last there February 13th, so I am able to come in.
1:31.2	Okay, good.
1:32.3	But very much thinking of my Italian friends at the moment.
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