Disappointing cut to the ground
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo is joined by the elite line-up of Michael Cox, Charlie Eccleshare and Duncan Alexander.
The European Super League appears to have collapsed as quickly as it was formed with the Big Six in England all pulling out. What killed the ESL? Should the owners have been more patient? Did England save football? Or with the new Champions League reforms, are we actually worse off than we were a week ago?
The League Cup final beckons with Manchester City taking on Tottenham, managed by Ryan Mason, the antidote to Mourinho.
The Premier League brings West Ham v Chelsea, Leeds v Man Utd and memories of Nigel Pearson wrestling James McArthur.
Chelsea Women retain the title initiative in the WSL in one of the games of the season against Man City.
And in the first Inter Totally quarter-final, defending champion Michael takes on Matt Davies-Adams.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: The Super League is dead (01m 00s)
• PART 1b: The Athletic’s Adam Crafton tells us what killed it (07m 30s)
• PART 2a: League Cup final preview (30m 00s)
• PART 2b: Man City & Chelsea’s WSL decider (40m 30s)
• PART 3a: On This Day (43m 00s)
• PART 3b: Previewing the Premier League weekend (47m 00s)
• PART 4: Inter Totally Cup – Cox v Davies-Adams (57m 30s)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Totally Football Show |
| 0:10.8 | Ding Dong, the Super League is dead. |
| 0:14.1 | Today we look back on a league with a lifespan of a fruit fly |
| 0:17.2 | and almost as much intelligence. |
| 0:19.4 | How did this Perrier's plan go so paris-shaped? Why did they go off as half-cocked as John Wayne Bobbitt? And is this the greatest football humiliation since last week when one of them got banted off by the Dulox Dog? After that, it's back to the football. Where were we? Chelsea West Ham, dueling for a top four spot. They meet each other this weekend. |
| 0:38.5 | We look at that on a packed set of crowd-pleasing fixtures. |
| 0:40.9 | Plus, the intertotally quarterfinals begin. |
| 0:43.3 | It's the Totally Football Show in association with Paddy Power. |
| 0:50.0 | Unbelievable. |
| 0:51.2 | Unbelievably. |
| 0:53.2 | Back to life. Back to reality. back to reality. |
| 0:58.2 | Back to life, back to reality. |
| 1:03.9 | UEFA and the football in world stand united against the disgraceful, self-serving |
| 1:10.0 | proposals we have seen from a select few clubs in Europe. |
| 1:14.3 | Manchester United, 100 years born out of workers around here, and they're breaking away into a league without competition. |
| 1:21.8 | It's not a sport of the success is already guaranteed. It's not a sport and it doesn't matter if you lose. |
| 1:27.6 | This cannot be allowed to happen. |
| 1:29.8 | This is the front page of the Spanish sport newspaper, Marka. |
| 1:32.9 | Super ridiculous. |
| 1:34.5 | And the situation we have now is civil war in football. |
| 1:38.3 | Honestly, we have to wrestle back the power in this country |
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