Playing against holograms
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
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🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In an international week full of drama, Jimbo welcomes Julien Laurens, Matt Davies-Adams and Sasha Goryunov into the pod.
Serbia strike late to win in Lisbon and secure their World Cup qualification and push Portugal into the play-offs. Pressure grows on Fernando Santos after underachieving with one of the most talented squads in the whole world.
It’s all to play for for Italy as they head to Northern Ireland on Monday. England are almost there as we give Gareth credit for getting a tune out of players who aren’t performing for their clubs.
Dean Smith is the new Norwich manager as Michael Bailey tells us whether this is a situation the hierarchy at Carrow Road lucked into. But don’t get your hopes up of seeing Zizou and his interpreter rock up at Old Trafford any time soon.
Plus the investigation rocking PSG women, John Portsmouth Football Club Westwood and the longest away trip in world football.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: The PSG women debacle (01m 00s)
• PART 2a: Portugal 1-2 Serbia (05m 30s)
• PART 2b: Croatia 1-0 Russia (12m 00s)
• PART 2c: England 5-0 Albania (17m 30s)
• PART 2d: France 8-0 Kazakhstan (22m 00s)
• PART 3: Norwich appoint Dean Smith, with The Athletic’s Michael Bailey (29m 00s)
• PART 4: World Cup qualifier previews (45m 00s)
• PART 5: The odds with Paddy Power (53m 00s)
• PART 6: Women’s Football Weekend (55m 00s)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:08.7 | Totally Football Show. Today, World Cup Qualifier verdicts. We check out the big winners, |
| 0:14.7 | England 5-0, Wales 5-1, the French 8-0, not every day you hear that sentence, |
| 0:19.4 | and the big losers who maybe won't be seen in Qatar, |
| 0:22.5 | like the people who build stadiums. |
| 0:24.4 | Plus, the world's biggest away fixture, |
| 0:26.9 | Norwich having a go through Aston Villa's bins, |
| 0:29.6 | and much, much more in this totally football show |
| 0:32.1 | in association with Paddy Palau. |
| 0:46.0 | Unbelievable, unbelievable. Monday, Monday 15th and November, listener so glad you could join us. |
| 0:49.3 | Today we have for you on totally Matt Davis-Adams. |
| 0:50.0 | Hey, Matt. |
| 0:51.3 | Hello, James. |
| 0:53.5 | Also here's Sasha Gurionov. |
| 0:54.4 | Hey, Sasha. Morning, James. And Julian's Sasha Gurionov. Hey, Sasha. |
| 0:55.3 | Come, James. |
| 0:59.3 | And Julian Laurent's joining us as well. Hello, Julia. |
| 1:00.8 | Bonjour, everyone. |
| 1:03.2 | Bonjour to you. So good to have you on. |
| 1:09.0 | One of the stories that's most caught the eye this last week is this incredible Paris Saint-G-Man story. |
| 1:10.4 | Oh, God, yeah. |
| 1:12.3 | What's the latest on that? |
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