Jollof and everything in between
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
It’s an international week with potentially huge implications for the World Cup in Qatar.
Jimbo, Duncan Alexander and Tom Williams discuss the last chance for Bale, Ramsey and co to qualify for a World Cup as Wales take on Austria in their play-off semi-final.
Portugal and Italy could face each other if they get past their semis. Who’s feeling more pessimistic? The Portuguese or the Italians? Tiago Estevao and James Horncastle tell us.
In the African play-offs, it’s Senegal v Egypt and Ghana v Nigeria. Carl Anka joins us from Ghana to describe the rivalry between the two nations.
Plus players that assisted Gerrard and a big international week for Kane and Clauss.
And an Inter Totally Cup quarter-final with an international flavour - Julien Laurens v Benji Lanyado.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Wales v Austria preview (04m 30s)
• PART 2: Portugal v Turkey preview with Tiago Estevao (16m 00s)
• PART 3: Italy v North Macedonia preview with James Horncastle (27m 00s)
• PART 4: Ghana v Nigeria preview with Carl Anka (39m 00s)
• PART 5: Inter Totally Cup – Laurens v Lanyado (50m 00s)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | Totally Football Show. |
| 0:10.3 | Today, internationals, the deciders. |
| 0:13.2 | Hearts are flutter with some teams bound for Qatar and some for the gutter. |
| 0:17.2 | We took Italy versus Knights of Macedonia, Portugal. Time to give Chris a miss. |
| 0:21.9 | Wales, bail as Brian Lara and the Joloff Derby, who will rise to the occasion. |
| 0:26.7 | Hey, all that plus a fat slice of intertotally excitement in this Totally football show |
| 0:31.1 | in association with Paddy Power. |
| 0:32.4 | Thank you. Welcome, listener. |
| 0:43.8 | So, bit early for us this week, because it's a special week. |
| 0:49.4 | This is Wednesday the 23rd of March. |
| 0:52.1 | Might drop a little bit later than that. |
| 0:53.8 | But with us, with me here, Duncan Alexander and Tom Williams, |
| 0:58.4 | hello. Hello. Hello, James. Hello to you. Duncan and Tom, and today a cast of literally |
| 1:05.5 | three around the world. They'll be joining us to give us the full global picture of what's an international |
| 1:12.1 | weekend. Yes, but arguably the best international weekend break ever. |
| 1:18.5 | Ever. What do you think? You know, about half the teams in the World Cup are going to be |
| 1:22.3 | decided in the course of the next five, six days. It does feel like quite a decisive few days. |
| 1:28.9 | And I think for people who will want to thumb their noses at international football, |
| 1:34.1 | I think they're in for a shock because I think these next few days are going to be pretty significant. |
| 1:40.4 | All right. |
| 1:40.8 | Are you thumbing your nose list? |
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