Haaland, Ronaldo, Mitrovic and more – opening day is upon us
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Premier League matchday 1 sees Jimbo assemble a pod squad of Tom Williams, Laurie Whitwell and Adrian Clarke.
Will Erling Haaland score another debut hat-trick? Will Aleksandar Mitrovic finally step up to the Premier League? Who will be sadder this weekend – Brendan Rodgers or the Spanish Brendan Rodgers?
Laurie gives us the lowdown on how Erik ten Hag is trying to instill discipline at Old Trafford. And how Cristiano Ronaldo is proving an obstacle to that.
Inspired by Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus, which players just looked wrong in a different jersey?
Plus opening day memories, Adrian’s holiday with Luke Ayling, and unfortunately for us all, Forest are trying to sign someone called Jizz Hornkamp.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: All or Nothing musings (03.00)
• PART 1b: Opening weekend memories (06.30)
• PART 1c: West Ham v Man City & Fulham v Liverpool previews (11.00)
• PART 2a: PL players no longer taking the knee (20.00)
• PART 2b: Everton v Chelsea, Palace v Arsenal and players that look weird in another shirt (23.00)
• PART 3: Man Utd v Brighton preview (36.00)
• PART 4: Newcastle v Forest and the rest of the Premier League weekend (47.00)
SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC TODAY FOR £1 A MONTH FOR THE FIRST 6 MONTHS
GET IN TOUCH:
• send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow
READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE:
• check out thetotallyfootballshow.com.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Arthur wakes up every morning to the shipping forecast. It's something of a ritual. |
| 0:04.3 | Forties, Cromity, fourth time, doggar. |
| 0:06.7 | He loves to keep up to date with the activity on the high seas. Only thing is, Arthur lives in the |
| 0:11.7 | centre of Wolverhampton and he's never set foot in so much as a rubber dinghy in his life. |
| 0:17.3 | But Arthur will be remembered for even more than his love of maritime movements. |
| 0:21.4 | He'll also be remembered for making a difference, |
| 0:23.4 | as he's left a gift in his will to his favourite charity. |
| 0:26.2 | Find out how you can make a difference at rememberacharity.org.org. |
| 0:31.8 | The Athletic |
| 0:35.0 | Totally fine. The Athletic. |
| 0:42.3 | Totally football show. |
| 0:44.5 | Today, Friday it begins. |
| 0:47.7 | The slow attritional demise of your cherished dreams for the season. |
| 0:51.8 | Today then we savour these final poignant hours when anything is still possible. |
| 0:56.1 | New strikers, can any of them do a Ravanelli first-day Hattrick debut? |
| 0:57.2 | Established players. |
| 1:02.0 | Why them switching clubs gives us more New Jersey headaches than Tony Soprano with Richie a Freely. |
| 1:02.6 | And loads of other questions as well, including does Forrest's Jishorn camp interest mean he can't do the |
| 1:07.6 | Gold Show anymore? |
| 1:08.8 | All that and more in this totally football show. |
| 1:15.3 | And hello listener, thank you for being with us on this most auspicious of days. Thursday, 4th of August. |
| 1:24.7 | I'm excited, you're excited. Tom Williams is excited. Hey, Tom. Oh, yes. Hello, James. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.