Relegation beckons for England and Wales, plus a huge weekend in the WSL
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
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🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
It’s international week so Jimbo assembles the pod squad of Carl Anka, Colin Millar and Tom Williams to focus on the fixtures.
It’s Italy v England in the Nations League as James Horncastle paints a picture of the Azzurri camp right now. We’ve got our eyes on the England midfield, and the not that tall Toney.
The drop to the second tier is a possibility for Wales as well, where the big question is whether it’s Ward or Wayne. And whether Michael Sheen will be in the dressing room.
Charlotte Harpur breaks down a WSL weekend that brings us the North London and Merseyside derbies.
Plus Woodgate and the worst debut ever, Brazil v Ghana, and why John McGinn is the new Jon Obi Mikel.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: Lots to look forward to (02.00)
• PART 1b: Italy v England preview with James Horncastle (10.00)
• PART 1c: Brazil v Ghana preview (28.00)
• PART 2a: Woodgate and the worst debut ever (33.00)
• PART 2b: Wales battle relegation, Spain and Scotland strive for promotion (37.30)
• PART 3: A huge WSL weekend with Charlotte Harpur (49.00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:08.3 | Totally Football Show. |
| 0:10.1 | Today, Nations League relegation drama, England, Italy, France and Wales, |
| 0:15.8 | big nations facing the drop, and Wales. |
| 0:19.1 | In the final international break before the big thing in Qatar, |
| 0:22.4 | we check out the weekend's key Nations League matchups |
| 0:25.4 | and decide we'd rather be watching Brazil Ghana. |
| 0:28.8 | Also today, how tall is Ivan Tony? |
| 0:31.0 | Does it matter if rice is off the boil? |
| 0:33.2 | And while all those internationals are going on, |
| 0:35.6 | have WSL cleverly scheduled their best set of fixtures ever. |
| 0:39.3 | All that and more coming up in this Totally Football Show. |
| 0:52.2 | Thursday 22nd of Checks Note September. |
| 0:55.8 | Hey, listener. |
| 0:56.7 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:58.8 | So you might have other things, you know, because it's international break. |
| 1:03.1 | But here you are. |
| 1:03.8 | Here we are, we in this case being me, Carl, Anger. |
| 1:07.4 | Hey, Carl. |
| 1:08.3 | Oh, hoi, James. |
| 1:09.9 | Yep. |
| 1:10.4 | Colin Miller's with us as well. |
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