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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

Is De Zerbi Spurs' saviour? Can Italy end their World Cup curse?

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

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

4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Matt Davies-Adams takes the hotseat alongside Daniel Storey, Tom Williams, Duncan Alexander, Felipe Cardenas and Dan Kilpatrick as Tottenham say goodbye to another manager.

 

Igor Tudor is shown the door by Spurs after just seven games in charge. The club are pushing to make former Brighton boss Roberto De Zerbi his replacement, but is he what they need right now? 

 

Boos at Wembley for Ben White who scores, then gives away a penalty in England’s 1-1 friendly draw with Uruguay.

 

And who will take the last six places at this year’s World Cup? The final qualifying playoff games take place on Tuesday.

 

Produced by Lucy Oliva and Xavi Bird

 

RUNNING ORDER: 

• PART 1: Tudor leaves Spurs (4:45)

• PART 2A: England 1-1 Uruguay (26:30)

• PART 2B: France 3-1 Colombia (36:30)

• PART 3: USA 2-5 Belgium (43:30)

• PART 4: World Cup playoff preview (49:30)


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0:00.0

The Athletic F.C.

0:10.9

Totally football show.

0:12.4

Today, Spurs, eager to stress,

0:14.7

it was mutual consent as Tudor's tumultuous term terminated.

0:18.3

Elsewhere, all white on the night at Wembley,

0:20.3

World Cup playoffs,

0:21.6

kick clashes and more to come on this Totally Football Show.

0:30.7

Unbelievable.

0:34.7

And hello, listener.

0:35.7

It's Monday the 30th of March for us in the brand new, recently refurbished, Totally Studio.

0:42.7

I've got Daniel's story, not able to enjoy it up on the big screen. How are you doing, Daniel?

0:46.7

I'm well, Matt. How are you? Yeah, I'm very well, thank you. I'm going to ask everybody who is studio-based today to pick a favorite photo adorning the walls of

0:55.6

the studio these days. Tom Williams, there's a couple of France-related ones. Are you going to stick

1:00.3

to type? Hi, Matt. Yeah, that would be the most predictable choice, wouldn't it?

1:04.8

Quite like Perlow v. Zedan over here from the 2006 final. Yeah. Obviously, free image of that

1:10.6

final. Free hand, I mean, the image that very much comes to mind when you think of that game. So Dan, yeah, looking like he's about to nut the ball rather than another player. If only he knew what was to come. Duncan, there's a couple of mascots arms around the referee with an extremely large football but i'm guessing that's not the one

1:27.9

you're going to pick no quite i mean obviously conti too cool handshake gate one over there

1:35.0

and the corner's quite good i don't like the matarazzi rui rickson one because that's been

1:38.8

seen on social media approximately four trillion times and there's a better version yeah where

1:43.7

matrazi is leaning on rui costa's. I quite like the Do-Dec one because, I mean, everyone knows he didn't really stand his line, but you can see there. You can't ever see the goal line. So, yeah, fair play. The Athletics Dan Kilpatrick's with us for the first part of the show to talk Tottenham. Does that mean that you're picking a quite poorly framed image of Juergen Clemsman?

2:34.3

Yeah, I mean, it's directly opposite me, and I'm here to talk Spurs, so I do feel duty-bound to pick Cleansman, that there aren't many others really catching my eye. Maybe Ron Ardenio kind of adds a bit of joy. It's what's from August board? There are some, I mean, there are some, you know, kind of classic photos. We've also got Razor Ruddock during his Swindon Town era, which is a period of time that I've completely forgotten about. All right. Well, Daniel and I aren't going to pick one in protesting the fact that there is simply not a Nottingham Forest image to be seen. but Dan is with us to give us the view from the lane on the latest Tottenham to Malt.

2:38.5

We're going to start with a Spurs statement on Sunday.

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