Ireland’s epic comeback, Scotland’s Denmark decider + can Brazil win the World Cup?

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

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Soccer, Unknown, Soccer,, Sports, Football

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🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo welcomes Natalie Gedra, Daniel Storey and Tom Williams into the pod after a phenomenal international weekend.

The Republic of Ireland complete a remarkable comeback in Budapest to keep themselves in the World Cup and into the play-offs. Troy Parrott is the hat-trick hero. Gavin Cooney from The 42 was there.

Similarly Scotland looked dead and buried after an hour in Greece on Saturday but they now have a huge clash with Denmark in Glasgow on Tuesday. Win the match and the Tartan Army will be heading to a first World Cup since 1998.

England won plenty of matches - all of them in fact - on the way to qualification as they end the campaign with a 2-0 victory in Albania. And Norway make it 8 wins out of 8 as well with a stunning 4-1 victory at San Siro against Italy.

Plus Natalię has been with the Brazil camp this week - can they actually go all the way and win a first World Cup since 2002?

Produced by Charlie Jones

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1a: Welcome Natalie Gedra (01.30)

• PART 1b: European qualifying - who’s booked their place? (06.00)

• PART 2a: Hungary 2-3 Republic of Ireland with Gavin Cooney (08.00)

• PART 2b: Wales v North Macedonia preview (21.30)

• PART 3: Scotland v Denmark preview with Laura Brannan (27.00)

• PART 4a: Nigeria knocked out by DR Congo (33.00)

• PART 4b: Italy 1-4 Norway (35.00)

• PART 4c: Could Brazil win the World Cup? (39.00)

• PART 4d: Could England win the World Cup? (47.00)

• PART 4e: Could France win the World Cup? (50.00)

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC
0:03.3	Totally football show.
0:11.5	Today, World Cup latest.
0:13.8	Three more teams qualify for others' playoffs.
0:16.4	We talk dead good parrot as Ireland's stung hungry
0:19.7	and Norwegian blue as Holland and Co-thumb Italy.
0:23.2	We compare notes on France, Brazil and England as potential winners and generally have a nice chat about football and things in this totally football show. Monday, 17th of November, 206 sleeps, hi Daniel.
0:52.3	Good morning, James.
0:53.4	Good morning to you. Tom Williams also here. Hey, Tom. Hey, James. Good morning. Good morning. And good morning. Well, bonjure to Natalie Jedra of Sky Sports.
1:04.3	Bon die. Hi. I'm going to stop using my faux Brazilian accent for you, Natalie, because you're very soon going to become a Britain.
1:12.4	In two days' time.
1:13.8	What?
1:14.5	Yes.
1:14.9	Have you done a lot of revision?
1:16.1	Because that's citizen test.
1:17.6	Oh, I took the citizen test.
1:18.9	Oh, you did that?
1:19.5	Yes, yes, I did.
1:20.5	Oh, so you know you just got the ceremony?
1:21.9	Yes, it's just a ceremony.
1:23.1	Oh, you got your sword ready in the Cape?
1:25.2	Yes, something like that. Yes, yes, yes, yes. They have assorted. Okay. The citizenship equivalent of the final stage of the Tour de France. The race has been right now. Natalie is just sipping champagne and waving at passes by. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That sounds fun. It does, doesn't it? I'm trying to think of a British equivalent to the last stage of the...
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