PSG pummel Chelsea as Real rock City - will Pep’s men slip up at West Ham?
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
James is joined by Duncan Alexander, Tom Williams and Benji Lanyado after another underwhelming night in the Champions League for English sides.
Federico Valverde scored a first half hattrick as Real Madrid stunned Manchester City 3-0 in the Bernabéu, while Chelsea imploded in the final 15 minutes to lose 5-2 at PSG.
Kai Havertz got Arsenal out of jail against his former club by scoring a controversial 89th minute penalty to salvage a 1-1 draw in Leverkusen.
And the Bodo/Glimt fairytale continues with the Norwegian side beating Sporting CP 3-0 in the Arctic Circle.
Plus a lookahead to the weekend's Premier League action and find out what the James Garner index is...
Produced by Charlie Jones and Xavi Bird.
PART 1: A bad week for the Premier League? (3mins)
PART 2: PSG 5-2 Chelsea (10:30 mins)
PART 3: Real Madrid 3-0 Man City (25 mins)
PART 4A: Bayer Leverkusen 1-1 Arsenal (39 mins)
PART 4B: Bodo/Glimt 3-0 Sporting CP (43 mins)
PART 5: Premier League Preview (45 mins)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.2 | Totally football show special |
| 0:12.0 | Are We the Farmers Edition |
| 0:13.9 | As the Premier League's |
| 0:15.0 | Champions League blowout continues |
| 0:17.0 | Call him Thedi Valworldy |
| 0:19.5 | Right |
| 0:19.8 | As City have epic fail The the real. Chelsea and Paris also |
| 0:23.8 | end in failure, thanks to Kradach Scalia, while Arsenal, he who lives by the corner, falls |
| 0:29.7 | by a by a corner. We'll talk about all of that then. Look out. Here comes the Premier League again. |
| 0:35.2 | We'll look at the title race, the drive for top five, the battle to survive and more in this Totally Football Show. |
| 0:45.0 | Thursday, the 12th of March. |
| 0:47.1 | Welcome to another totally football show. |
| 0:49.8 | Today, Duncan Alexander from the Athletics with us. |
| 0:52.7 | Hello, James. |
| 0:53.2 | Hi to you. Tom Williams from Canal Athletics with us. Hello, James. Hi to you. |
| 0:56.2 | Tom Williams from Canal Plu. |
| 0:57.7 | Hello. |
| 0:58.5 | Bonjour, James. Is that a fair kind of appellation? |
| 1:02.8 | I mean, I work for them also. |
| 1:04.7 | Good. |
| 1:04.8 | I mean, yeah, sure. |
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