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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

Heaven knowns Mou’s miserable now

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

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

4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The deed has been done - Manchester United have sacked Jose Mourinho. Has he become an angry self-parody living in the past? And what’s next for the once-Special One and, indeed, United? Jimbo, Rory Smith, Tom Williams, Ian Irving, Carl Anka and Iain Macintosh give their thoughtsRUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: The latest from Carrington - with Ian Irving (01m 40s)• PART 1b: Was Mou the problem or the scapegoat? (04m 40s)• PART 1c: How good should United’s squad be Champions League Last 16 (23m 20s)• PART 2a: A fan’s view - with Carl Anka (10m 30s)• PART 2b: Was this Mou’s final act? (13m 10s)• PART 2c: Final thoughts - with Rory Smith (19m 30s)  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)CHARITY NEWS:
• we’re working with **CALM**, the Campaign Against Living Miserably, who are dedicated to preventing male suicide.  [Head to the Calm Zone](https://www.thecalmzone.net/)
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Good news. Sweet available at the Lowry, one slightly damaged trouser press. Yes,

0:10.4

Murillo is Muratio, Tuesday's shock announcement from Man United. Today, in a totally special,

0:15.7

we round out the breaking news, the breaking views, the broken move. It's a totally football show

0:20.4

in association with Paddy Power.

0:26.3

Unbeleaving, unbelievable, unbelievable.

0:29.6

Let the joyous news be spread.

0:31.9

The wicked old witch at last his day.

0:39.7

To pin down the witch is York's Which or witch, which is here in an emergency football show.

0:45.7

Life scenes from Manchester United's training ground at Carrington there

0:48.9

this Tuesday morning as news breaks of Jose's departure.

0:54.2

Joining's here in an emergency totally football show, Tom Williams.

0:59.8

Hello, James.

1:00.4

And Ian McIntosh.

1:01.7

Hello.

1:02.3

Welcome back, Ian.

1:03.7

My word, three years to the day.

1:07.6

From Jose's last sacking, he walks again.

1:30.1

Shocked? I was when it broke. But looking back, when was the last time anyone enjoyed a Manchester United game? Tom? Very shocked, yeah. We weren't expecting it. And someone sent me the link via WhatsApp, and I clicked on it on the Man United website and thought, well, this is obviously fake. Sounds a bit weird, and then sort of followed the link through and clicked on a few other places.

1:31.2

And the next thing, Twitter exploded.

1:32.4

And there it was.

1:33.5

There it was.

1:38.2

All right, well, let's go to our Manchester correspondent, Ian Irving, of Premier League TV,

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