The Totally Football Show. Midweek drama for you today. There's Chelsea's three-all,

free-for-all with Roma, Roman side against the Roman side. Edin against Edin. No wonder it finished

even. Plus there's Liverpool side from the Mersey, showing none away at Marriol. We've got all the

midweek news and a round of fixtures dominated by Premier League size, as this weekend will probably be

as well as Liverpool travelled to Spurs and Watford visit Chelsea. Interesting fixtures all.

Elsewhere, there's a national surge in Shakespeare word, as Lester tell their manager he's barred,

the Westbourne draw, his final act less than not happy with his play, bringing the curtain down

before they had averse performance. All of that plus drama, as the FAA discovers that it's

2017, it's the totally football show.

Wow, everybody, a really top line-up for today's show. Thank goodness, because we've got big stories to handle capable hands in the shape of Michael Cox. Hello, James. Hi, Michael. Big midweek of action, wasn't it? Yeah, really good midweek for the English teams in particular. That's so true. James Horncastle, you were across some of the key matches on our goal show thing. Literally across them. Right. And a similar story for you, Julian Laurent. Hello. Yes, I was. Great to have you two. Thank you. Thank you. In with your continental expertise. But as you say, Michael, it's the Premier League clubs who really laid down a bit of a marker there. All five leading their groups at this midway stage of the group stage.

Yes. it's the Premier League clubs who really laid down a bit of a marker there all five leading their groups at this midway stage of the group stage. Yeah, it's incredible. And from this situation you'd be surprised if we didn't get three or maybe four even into the quarter finals, you know, because they'll get a good draw for the second round it looks like. And also this week they were in general up against quite good opposition.

Spurs away at Rome, Madrid.

City with a fantastic performance, certainly the first half hour against Napoli.

And then Chelsea against Roma.

I think Chelsea actually struggled more than the other teams.

But a point keeps them top of the group and in charge of the group.

So they're all in very good shape.

Jimmy Armstrong says, does anyone really care about the championship league group stages? Competition only gets interesting at the knockout stage. Not a Liverpool fan, I'm guessing, Jimmy. But it's good. I mean, it starts now if you, you know, it starts in the last season if you make it. Because Spurs last season, for example, didn't even make it to the last 16 so it's one thing to say okay the real competition starts then but you have to make it first and it's not always that easy to make it especially if you have a group like chelsea's group where you know at the beginning you would have said oh even spurs group yeah two very very difficult group it's easier for United than Liverpool, but for the others,

it was not a given that they would qualify for the last 16. Well, it wasn't a given for Liverpool either, away at Slovenia. In fact, Bangladesh FC says, I think the pod needs to ask David Priest how he feels about the nil-nil-nill-drawer that he predicted for that Liverpool game. Liverpool, to be fair to David, coming into this, a fixture on a soggy foreign pitch

on the back of a record that ran one win in eight,

what happened on Tuesday night?

Maribor was just dreadful.

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