Totally football show. Good Lord, it's hot. The Son is in full effect in London, but this time

it's not Hung Min making this suffer. It's the nearly perfectly spherical hot ball of burning

plasma in the sky, which has us praying for Cloudio Rainer. Anyway, heatwave or no heatwave,

your TFS team will stop at nothing to bring you bang up to speed with all the latest

happenings in the wide, wide world

of football. Tabloid headline writers rejoices Newcastle's smash transfer record to get Joel in tune and for do, do, do pushing off to Germany. Some other players have moved clubs and it's absolutely massive news and some haven't, but they might. and frankly that's more than enough to make it into a preseason pod in this totally football show in association with Paddy Power.

I'm Matt Davis Adams, and yet they keep inviting me back.

In the studio with me today, it's the Holhunk, or Hulk, if you will, Italian football expert, James Horncastle. James, this is his textbook, gelato weather, as a man who frequents Italy regularly. What does you go to ice cream? What would you recommend for these kind of conditions? Oh, that's a very good question. A sorbetto? Or a granita. That would be very good.

I would probably go with a strachatella, which is kind of like vanilla chocolate,

kind of chippy kind of thing.

Pistachio, pistachio, for English listeners.

Always very nice.

I'm a big fan on the kind of coffee kind of stuff as well, sort of, or Fjordi Late, something like that. There's some very good places just near our new studio in Soho. Go to Jalupo, for example. They do some good ice cream. So, um... I think we will, James. I think we most definitely will. You can be very hungry now. The other voice you can hear there is the Bavarian Brainiac all the way from Germany at one point in time. Now all the way from like 15 minutes down the road, or given the weather, should that be down the roast? No, wait, road is correct. Hello, Raphael Honnstein. It's way too early for roasting jokes. Your ice cream of choice, I'm guessing it's nut-based.

It is.

How did you guess?

I don't know. I just see as a kind of crush-nuts kind of guy on an ice cream. Hazelnut. All right. Not chola. Okay. Not chola. Yeah. It's wonderful. What about you, Matt? I'd always go for two scoops, one fruit and then one like chocolate.

So the fruits like the palate cleanser at theoops, one fruit and then one like chocolate. So the fruits,

like the palate cleanser at the end after you've had the nice, nice chocolate. Good lemon sorbet. Yeah, yeah. It goes a long way. Do you like cream? Cream on top? Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. No. No. When it's good, Raff, it's good. No, no, no. Come on. Options, that's the main thing. mercifully the new season is getting ever closer

it's been literally days since the last one

finished so we better get into today's big-ish news. Yo, Abby, hit the sting. You're listening to The Totally Fibble Show in association with Paddy Power. Now there, Gareth Bell, you remember him. Loves golf, hates integrating himself into the culture and lifestyle of a country in which he's lived for five years.

Anyway, Zinidad doesn't have a personal problem with Bail.

He just wants him to get as far away from Madrid as possible immediately.

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