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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, World Cup, Sports, Champions League, Soccer,

4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo has Michael Cox, Duncan Alexander and Matt Davies-Adams in for the final pod of the year, talking Liverpool, City, Liverpool-City and Shkodran Mustafi’s New Year’s Eve eve. Plus, our stars, flops, surprises and moments of the season so farRUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: This does not slip? (0m 40s) • PART 1b: Liverpool 5 - 1 Arsenal (03m 20s)• PART 2a: City v Liverpool preview (11 00s)• PART 2b: Of Cardiff and Spurs (17m 00s)• PART 2c: Fulham and Kamara shoots himself in the foot (24m 00s)• PART 3a: Rangers’ Old Firm win and more - with JJ Bull (29m 10s)• PART 3b: World’s Strongest Man update (34m 40s) • PART 3c: Palace v Chelsea and alternatives to Sarriball (37m 00s)• PART 3d: Man U and Pogba on the up (44m 00s)• PART 4a: A word on the Championship and the best football docs (49m 50s)• PART 4b: Stars, flops and moments of the season so far (52m 00s)• PART 5: The odds with Paddy Power’s Lee Price (61m 20s)• PART 6: Exeunt omnes (63m 20s) GET IN TOUCH:
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0:00.0

As Van Gogh's girlfriend said when she opened the mail,

0:08.1

ooh, it's the end of the year again.

0:09.7

Totally team looked back on a dramatic last round of 2018

0:13.0

from another Anfield Amoring to more merry elf-like magic from Manu's

0:18.1

Oli Gunas Solchard.

0:19.9

Plus, we nominate our tops and flops for this season so far.

0:23.9

It's the Totally Football Show, an association with Paddy Power.

0:46.6

Happy New Year's Eve, listener, or if you're listening in the future, greetings from far off 2018, where things were different.

1:10.9

In today, what was today, in a relative sense, we've got straight out at Opta, Duncan Alexander. Hello, James. International Man of Microphones, Matt Davis Adams. Hi, James. And the man who literally puts it in the mixer, because that's the title of a book that he wrote with words. Michael Cox. Hi, James. Greetings to all of you. All right, let's start with a biggie. Does anyone know what day the week it is?

1:12.6

Monday.

1:13.8

Exactly.

1:15.2

I only know that because I'm here.

1:17.5

All right, very nice.

1:24.1

Later on the phone will be a talkie-up Rangers' old firm win, which, judging by Friday's phoneers, bodes well for Stephen Gerrard's side.

1:26.3

We had a phoneer on Lester, who

1:29.1

probably got beaten at home by Cardiff, and we did Spurs, who went down at Wembley to Wolves.

1:35.6

But then there's a lot of that kind of thing, that Christmas isn't there mad? There certainly is,

1:39.0

yeah, yeah, tis the season for strange results. Absolutely. Are you expecting further surprises

1:44.1

as 2019 begins, Michael?

1:47.2

I think the table's pretty much shaken out now, to be honest.

1:50.2

I think now wolves have got themselves up into seventh,

1:53.8

which I think is where they belong.

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