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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

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

4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo is joined by Sunday Times football correspondent Jonathan Northcroft, David Preece and Matt Davies-Adams to look ahead to England’s double-header with Croatia and Spain and the rest of the Nations League. Plus, World Cup memories, darts with Dele All, and Aston Villa’s new managerial dream team RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: World Cup questions, World Cup memories (02m 30s)• PART 1b: England v Croatia preview - Mason Mount, Sancho and co (06m 30s)• PART 2a: Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland news (23m 30s)  • PART 2b: Holland v Germany and Italy’s woes (30m 00s)
• PART 3a: National anthems, non-league, Aston Villa and other miscellany (34m 10s)• PART 4: Jonathan’s World Cup memories and answers (46m 40s)
• PART 5: The odds with Paddy Power’s Lee Price (51m 30s)• PART 6: Exeunt omnes (53m 30s) GET IN TOUCH:

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0:00.0

It's international break and here on the Totally Football Show, we're reliving the time the nation got a semi at the World Cup.

0:10.4

So dig out your jars of pickles, your half and half waistcoats and you're all advised Robbie Williams cameos as England played Croatia again.

0:17.9

This time not in a World Cup semi-final, but a relegation six-pointer.

0:22.1

Also, we'll be looking at other international fixtures.

0:24.8

We'll be talking PSG, don't pass to me, and Alas Smith and John at the Villa, all that in this totally football show.

0:36.2

Unbelievable, unbelievable this. Unbelievable Unbelievable this

0:39.1

Shoo-hoo! Sweet sounds of the OJs with Love Train, which must have been... Oh, ho!

0:57.6

Sweet sounds of the OJs with Love Train,

1:01.7

which must mean that England are rolling back into your station as they prepare for this whopping game with Croatia.

1:08.2

By the way, many thanks to Dave Payne for that top line.

1:13.3

Riazda, if it all goes pear-shaped for villa,

1:15.4

with the managerial team be known as Alas Smith and Johns.

1:23.1

Here in the pod and pumped up for this week of international fun,

1:26.6

we've got Matt Davis Adams.

1:28.5

Hello, James.

1:29.3

Comptainter for Chelsea TV, a man has changed his Twitter handle three times in a month. Certainly have, yeah. I'm sort of happy with the one I've settled on now. What have you gone for now? Matt Davis, Adams. Prozaic, but, you know. And what was the journey that got you there? Well, it was part of this whole name change thing.

1:25.6

What were the other ones?

1:26.2

So we were Matt Davis FC and then to MJDAFC, which went down very poorly. Right. So, yeah, Matt Davis Adams for the foreseeable. Okay, excellent. Jonathan Norcroft, what is your Twitter handle? Oh, at J. Northcroft, James. Brilliant. Keep it simple. Yeah. Welcome to the show, by the way. Thanks. Jonathan, as you know, listeners, the football correspondent for the Sunday Times, and author of the extravagantly titled Deadlines and Darts with Delhi, colon, my World Cup Dairy. Speaking of keeping it simple. I've already had an accidental partridge for that, so it's a result. David Priest also here, fresh from the number one podcast. Thanks for having me back in this international break. Not at all, David. It's good to have you here. Can you remember what happened in Russia? I always like to look forward and not look backwards. I'm that type of person. I genuinely really struggle with some of the details

2:34.4

and I bet listener you feel the same way

2:36.2

so to test out how much recall people have

2:39.9

of the whole Russian experience

2:41.1

Jonathan I think you've got a question or two

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