If football was mathematical
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo welcomes Duncan Alexander, Tom Williams and Nooruddean Choudry in for a jam-packed Totally Football Show.
As exclusively revealed by The Athletic, Ralf Rangnick looks set to take over as interim manager at Manchester United. Raphael Honigstein tells us to expect pace and precision in United’s play.
We look back at the midweek Champions League action, purring over Man City and the way Reece James and Thiago hit footballs. And we look back at the midweek karaoke action with Declan Rice.
Plus Dyche going full Ossie Ardiles, the celebration police and the small matter of AFCON. And burgers.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: Benzema found guilty (02m 00s)
• PART 2: Chelsea v Man Utd preview (07m 00s)
• PART 3a: Raphael Honigstein on the prospect of Ralf Rangnick at United (20m 00s)
• PART 3b: Man City 2-1 PSG & Rice Rice baby (25m 00s)
• PART 3c: The rest of the Champions League action (35m 00s)
• PART 4: The rest of the Premier League weekend (46m 00s)
• PART 5: The odds with Paddy Power (59m 30s)
• PART 6: Burgers (62m 30s)
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| 0:45.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:46.8 | And on with the show. |
| 1:01.5 | Totally football's show. Totally Football Show. They're just not that interim. Search for a man United manager continues while Carrick gets them qualified in the Champions League and |
| 1:05.0 | Pochitina gets experience of managing a disjointed team of superstars in Manchester. Ralph Ragnick |
| 1:09.8 | emerges as the hot choice. We'll have more on that story. And we'll run up all the midweek drama. Barter on the brink, Milan thanking them, Macias. Chelsea, they no longer have Oscar, but they would like to thank the Academy. Plus, we look ahead to the weekend. As Thomas Tuchel's side, host Man United and pretty much everyone else, |
| 1:28.2 | plays at 2 o'clock on Sunday. It's the Toadley Football Show in association with Paddy Power. |
| 1:36.7 | Unbelievable. Unbelievably. Well, listener, Thursday, 25th of November, as I sit here gazing at the visages of Nurudine Chowdhry, hi, Noz. |
| 1:49.7 | Hiya. |
| 1:50.5 | All right. |
| 1:50.9 | Tom Williams is also on board. |
| 1:52.9 | Hi, James. |
| 1:54.0 | Court correspondent for the big case in Paris. |
| 1:57.0 | And Duncan Alexander also here. |
| 1:59.1 | All right, Duncan. |
| 1:59.5 | Hello, James. |
| 2:00.4 | Hello. |
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