Fallible, awkward, uncomfortable
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
We have both sides of the divide on Saturday at Selhurst Park – Liverpool run riot over Crystal Palace winning 7-0. Can anyone keep pace or are the champions about to disappear into the distance?
Man United hammer Leeds 6-2 at Old Trafford, in a game that almost has pundits waxing lyrical about the losers more than the winners. But given United’s squad depth, are they viable title contenders?
Are Arsenal in a relegation fight? What makes them so painful to watch and so easy to ply against?
Plus we take a look at football’s Christmas history. And how Fulham are channelling 80s Juventus.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: West Brom 0-3 Aston Villa (01m 00s)
• PART 2a: Man Utd 6-2 Leeds (06m 30s)
• PART 2b: Tottenham 0-2 Leicester (16m 00s)
• PART 2c: Brighton 1-1 Sheff Utd (21m 00s)
• PART 3a: Crystal Palace 0-7 Liverpool (26m 30s)
• PART 3b: The rest of the Premier League weekend (36m 00s)
• PART 4: Christmas football + the League Cup quarter-finals (50m 00s)
• PART 5: The odds with Lee Price from Paddy Power (61m 00s)
• PART 6: Flip Reverse competition (62m 30s)
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| 0:47.0 | Today, deck the halls with bowels of Olly, |
| 0:50.2 | Man United six two winners over Leeds. |
| 0:53.2 | As everyone's views on Man United get reversed faster than official guidelines on meeting your nan. |
| 0:58.8 | Meanwhile, Saturday, big turkey is getting stuffed at home, despite the fact no one's allowed to come along and enjoy it. |
| 1:04.6 | Palace Liverpool is the game for our times. |
| 1:07.3 | We ask, are we on now for a classic Man United Liverpool title duel? Plus, |
| 1:12.5 | they're behind you, almost all of you, the Arsenal. They are still doing their pantomime this |
| 1:18.0 | year, but have they now officially joined the relegation battle? All that and more in this |
| 1:22.7 | totally football show in association with Paddy Power. Hello, listener. It's December the 21st and it is our last show before Christmas, |
| 1:34.8 | and present, our Daniel story. Hi, Daniel. Hi, James. And Sasha Gurionov, who was at |
| 1:42.1 | Selhurst Park on Saturday. Hi, Sasha. Hi, James. And Dominic Firefield, who absolutely was not was at Selhurst Park on Saturday. Hi, Sasha. |
| 1:45.1 | Hi, James. |
| 1:50.2 | And Dominic Firefield, who absolutely was not at Selhurst Park on Saturday, so don't ask him about it. |
| 1:51.2 | Please. |
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