Extracting gold from rocks
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Manchester United’s title hopes are dealt a blow by Sheffield United who win at Old Trafford. Could the greatest of great escapes be on?
Next up for United, it’s Arsenal on Saturday. Are the resurgent Gunners set for a top 4 finish?
Or will it be David Moyes returning to the Champions League with West Ham? And will Man City leave everyone else behind in the title race?
Thomas Tuchel’s first game in charge of Chelsea produces lots of passes but no goals. Hear why you should forget about the idea of a regular Tuchel 11.
Plus Lukaku & Ibra, what Denis Law did on this day, and what Jordan Pickford has in common with Pierluigi Collina.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: FA Cup & quiz action (02m 00s)
• PART 1b: Man Utd 1-2 Sheff Utd (05m 30s)
• PART 1c: Southampton 1-3 Arsenal (15m 00s)
• PART 2a: Chelsea 0-0 Wolves (21m 00s)
• PART 2b: Burnley 3-2 Aston Villa and the rest of Wednesday’s action (27m 00s)
• PART 3a: The Lukaku-Ibra beef with James Horncastle (33m 00s)
• PART 3b: What a week for West Ham (39m 00s)
• PART 3c: West Brom 0-5 Man City (44m 30s)
• PART 4: On This Day and the weekend’s Premier League action (52m 00s)
• PART 5: The odds with Lee Price from Paddy Power (61m 30s)
• PART 6: Copa Libertadores final preview (63m 00s)
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| 0:37.3 | Today, Chelsea call on two-call but barely barely tickle, man city are too cool for Baggy's |
| 0:42.1 | tackles, while Shockett old Trafford as Sheffield United took all three points. We round out the |
| 0:47.1 | midweek games, plus on this day, call your mum, the Ibra v. Lukaku battle, and one half of the |
| 0:53.4 | planet's biggest game of the season. |
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| 1:09.6 | Hello listener. It's Thursday the 28th of January. |
| 1:13.0 | And I'm delighted to say that here with us on The Totally Show, we have Duncan Alexander. |
| 1:17.7 | Hello, James. |
| 1:18.8 | Michael Cox. |
| 1:20.3 | Hello, James. |
| 1:21.2 | And also the returning Natalie Jedra. |
| 1:24.7 | Hello, James. |
| 1:25.8 | Hello to you too, and indeed, to all of you and you, listener. Duncan, exciting to have you on board. What a game your Wickham gave Spurs on Monday night. Did they? Did they, though? Don't judge a book by its cover. It looks, you know, Wickem took the lead, and it was still a draw until the very late stages, but it wasn't really that sort of game. |
| 1:46.6 | Wickeme only had one more shot after scoring in the 25th minute, and Tottenham should have been well clear before that, really. |
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