Leeds rock Chelsea as high-flying Villa face leaders Arsenal
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
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🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo's got Charlie Eccleshare, Dan Kilpatrick and Duncan Alexander for company after a rather ludicrous midweek of action in the Premier League.
We begin with events at Elland Road on Wednesday night, where Leeds condemned Chelsea to a 3-1 defeat to well and truly quell any talks of the Blues being serious title challengers. The Athletic's Beren Cross joins us to discuss a great night for Daniel Farke's side - and ponder their chances of dishing out a similar beating to Liverpool on Saturday evening.
We've got of the fallout from across Tuesday and Wednesday night including fortress Anfield once again lacking fortification against the Black Cats, Man City's second-half collapse but eventual three points against Fulham - and the marvel of Mikel Merino as Arsenal got the better of Brentford.
Amongst all that there's plenty of chatter ahead of the weekend's MD15 fixtures which include Villa v Arsenal, Tottenham v Brentford and Man City v Sunderland.
Plus - party etiquette, reunions with exes and fights at the Christmas dinner table.
Produced by Charlie Jones and Lucy Oliva.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: Hellos, The Soccer 100 - and the World Cup draw (00.45)
• PART 1b: A bonkers midweek of Premier League action (07.30)
• PART 2a: Leeds 3-1 Chelsea with Beren Cross (09.15)
• PART 2b: Liverpool 1-1 Sunderland (17.05)
• PART 3a: Arsenal 2-0 Brentford (24.00)
• PART 3b: The rest of Wednesday's action (31.15)
• PART 4a: Fulham 4-5 Manchester City (34.00)
• PART 4b: Newcastle 2-2 Tottenham (41.30)
• PART 4c: MD15's other standout fixtures (49.30)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Totally Football Show |
| 0:12.1 | Today, midweek, under the lights in the Premier League. |
| 0:16.1 | At Ellen Road, Daniel Farker with all the right calls |
| 0:19.3 | and Farker all is what Chelsea got. At Anfield, Sunderland Draw, win is a door, not a door, when it's a jarring performance, once more from the champions, and Tuesday's action, 5-4-3-for-all at the Fulham Man City and Harland going a ton up, while for Spurs call it Day of the Not Dead Yet as man called Romero gives a suffering group of zombies |
| 0:38.4 | new direction. All that plus a look ahead to the weekend's action in this Totally Football |
| 0:43.2 | Show. |
| 0:43.6 | Unbelievable. Unbelievable this. Thursday the 4th of December. Woo-hoo. Welcome to another |
| 0:51.9 | Totally football show. Today we're in the company of Duncan Alexander. Hello James James. Good morning to you, Duncan. Charlie, Hercher has dropped in as well. Hello, Charlie. Hey. And it's a big welcome back to Dan Kilpatrick. Good morning. Good morning to you, Dan. Thanks for holding the door open for me earlier on. Pleasure. Right. Coming out of the loo. Yep. |
| 1:11.5 | That's where it was. |
| 1:14.1 | Fourth of December today, Dan. |
| 1:16.4 | It is indeed, James. |
| 1:17.6 | Do you know what day that is? |
| 1:19.5 | It's, let me help you out. |
| 1:21.4 | It's launch day. |
| 1:23.3 | And if you're watching us on the YouTube |
| 1:25.0 | for this new book from The Athletic, |
| 1:26.8 | The Soccer 100, |
| 1:29.4 | Erling Holland's got his. He was happy about it. |
| 1:32.8 | And I've just been flicking through and it's, I mean, I know we should be, we're kind of promoting this, |
| 1:37.5 | but it's really good. Of course I dove to the sharp end of the century to find out who was where. |
| 1:43.9 | You'll never guess who didn't |
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