It’s England v Germany and the return of the EFL
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo welcomes Duncan Alexander, Tim Spiers and Matt Davies-Adams into the pod ahead of a bumper weekend of football action.
England look to make history as they face Germany at Wembley in the Euro 22 final. Can the Lionesses stop Popp? And should super-sub Russo start?
The Community Shield isn’t really exciting our panel, so we discuss some alternative curtain-raisers instead.
The return of the EFL is a lot more exciting as Kompany and Bellamy take charge at Turf Moor, Wilder looks to bring Boro up and Derby prepare for life in the third tier.
Plus Dybala, McNeil and our favourite back-heel goals.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: Wolves’ adventures in Benidorm (02.00)
• PART 1b: England v Germany preview (04.00)
• PART 2a: Alternatives to the Community Shield (19.00)
• PART 2b: Differing fortunes for Pogba & Dybala (23.00)
• PART 2c: McNeil on the move, so too Kounde (26.00)
• PART 3: The big kick-off in the EFL (33.00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | I'm Mark McGettigan, |
| 0:06.5 | aka the FPL General. |
| 0:08.8 | I've had three top 500 finishes |
| 0:10.8 | during my time as a fantasy Premier League manager |
| 0:13.9 | and I want to help you to be the very best |
| 0:16.6 | fantasy manager you can be. |
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| 0:25.4 | Apple, Spotify and all the usual places, and listen ad free on the athletic app. |
| 0:31.2 | Thank you. Totally Football Show. |
| 0:44.1 | Today, England walk all over Sweden with their heels. |
| 0:47.8 | Nation bleary-eyed after Wild Night with Rousseau. |
| 0:50.6 | For once, that's not a Boris Johnson story. |
| 0:52.9 | And into the final, the lionesses go. |
| 0:54.8 | But against Germany and their pop star, can England be number one? |
| 0:58.7 | We'll look ahead to that. |
| 0:59.9 | Meantime, hello, halfway legitimate fixture, |
| 1:02.1 | cosplaying as a proper game because it's been a long wait since last season. |
| 1:05.2 | The Community Shield is with us on Saturday at the King Power, of course. |
| 1:09.4 | We'll check on that and the Football League, which gets going on Friday, |
| 1:13.3 | with company at Burnley, Derby and League one, and many other intriguing stories. |
| 1:18.3 | Lots to come then in today's Totally Football show. |
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