Man United dominate City in the derby, plus the incredible AFCON finale

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

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

4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

It’s Jimbo, Daniel Storey, Colin Millar and Luis Miguel Echegaray in position after another dramatic weekend of Premier League action.

It’s 4 games without a win for Man City as Michael Carrick’s Man United produce a performance for the ages to win 2-0. How did the Red Devils do it?

For the second matchday in a row, Arsenal fail to fully capitalise on City’s slip-up as they draw 0-0 at Forest. Will Mikel Arteta come to regret these missed opportunities in the title race? Perhaps not as Villa also stutter with a 1-0 defeat to Everton.

We record the pod as the AFCON final is in progress, not knowing what was about to unfold. A controversial penalty, a walk-off, pitch invasions, a Panenka and eventually a heartbreaking defeat for hosts Morocco against Senegal. Maher Mezahi was there.

Billed by some as El Sackico, West Ham are last-minute winners at Tottenham, who lose a third straight game. What next for Thomas Frank?

And what next for Oliver Glasner after a remarkable few days where he reveals his plan to leave Palace in the summer, then takes aim at the board for abandoning him and his players. Matt Woosnam has more.

Produced by Charlie Jones

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1: Aston Villa 0-1 Everton (05.00)

• PART 1b: Wolves 0-0 Newcastle (13.00)

• PART 2a: Man United 2-0 Man City (20.00)

• PART 2b: Forest 0-0 Arsenal (33.00)

• PART 3a: Glasner takes aim at Eagles board, with Matt Woosnam (38.00)

• PART 3b: Spurs 1-2 West Ham (48.00)

• PART 4: The rest of the Premier League weekend (55.00)

• PART 5: Senegal win AFCON with Maher Mezahi (62.00)

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC
0:03.3	Totally Football Show.
0:11.4	Today, Premier League, match day 22.
0:14.3	Top five stop winning,
0:15.4	bottom five stop losing.
0:16.6	Will Olly Glastner stop whining?
0:18.2	We check out the Manchester Derby.
0:20.0	New Carrick and new Carrick Tour as Red Devils do City in Derby's Statement Win.
0:25.4	Is it time for City to buy some more players, because it's been more than 24 hours,
0:29.6	and can United next to Arsenal, who dropped points but extended their lead this weekend.
0:34.6	We'll hear about that, the Palace Palava, about Spurs
0:38.0	getting worse in a West Hamreverse, and about the Morocco horror show in the Afcom
0:43.3	final Sunday night in Rabat. It's all in this Totally Football Show.
0:51.1	Unbelievable, unbelievable this. Totally football show for you on Sunday, the 18th of January. Hello to you if you're watching on YouTube or checking us out on Monday or thereafter in the podcast version today's show featuring from New York. Louis Miguel, Etche Guevare. Hey, Louise. Sorry about your surname.
1:14.3	How are you, Jimbo? No, it's okay. Everybody does it. How are you, Jimbo?
1:24.7	I'm very, very well. Lovely to see you. Luis, by the way, has passed up an opportunity to be at an Afcon final watch party with who, Louise?
1:44.2	Oh, Mr. Zoran Mamdani, our new mayor. That's so cool. That's so cool. It's way cooler to be with you, Jim. Well, yeah. I'm so delighted that you've joined us, as has Daniel Sturie, who knows what opportunities he's passed up to be in his attic, gazing at us through his laptop. All right, Daniel. Yeah, hard to say, but it probably wouldn't have topped Louise, if I'm brutally honest. Okay, then. And Colin Miller is here in the studio, old school. Hi, James. How are you? Very well. Thank you, Colin. Oh, I should say, by the way, Afcon final going on, even as we speak, currently goalless between Morocco and Senegal, we're hoping to do a bit of an on the whistle report on that.
2:07.0	Not going to be able to feature it in our YouTube coverage, but once we finish our live recording on YouTube, we're hoping to get that in for Monday morning's podcast version. So stick around to the
2:19.5	end of the show and we should be hearing a on the whistle verdict on the Afcon final. Excellent.
2:26.9	Now, match day 22 of the Premier League, only 14 goals scored. Only 14 goals. And in fact,
2:33.8	here's a stat, Daniel, were you aware that
2:35.7	since January the 1st, the current top 5 in the Premier League have won fewer games than the
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