Rogers runs riot for record-breaking Villa as Liverpool’s revival continues
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
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🗓️ 21 December 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo, Daniel Storey, Adrian Clarke and Mark Carey chew through the last Premier League weekend before Christmas.
Morgan Rogers produces two moments of magic as Aston Villa beat Man United 2-1. Unai Emery's side have won 10 in a row and 7 in a row in the Premier League for the first time ever.
There are victories for Man City and leaders Arsenal, who put a stop to their away slump with a 1-0 win at Everton.
The match of the weekend sees Chelsea fight back from 2-0 down at St James's Park to rescue a point. And it's two red cards for Tottenham as Liverpool's revival continues in North London.
Plus yet more misery for Wolves and yet more joy for Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Leeds.
Produced by Charlie Jones
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Aston Villa 2-1 Man United (04.00)
• PART 2a: Newcastle 2-2 Chelsea (23.00)
• PART 2b: Spurs 1-2 Liverpool (30.00)
• PART 2c: Everton 0-1 Arsenal (40.00)
• PART 2d: Man City 3-0 West Ham (44.00)
• PART 3a: Leeds 4-1 Crystal Palace (50.00)
• PART 3b: Wolves 0-2 Brentford (55.00)
• PART 3c: Bournemouth 1-1 Burnley (60.00)
• PART 3d: Brighton 0-0 Sunderland (63.00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Totally football show. |
| 0:11.4 | Today, Premier League, good Morgan. |
| 0:14.9 | The Hail's own hero defeats Man United on his own at Villa Park. |
| 0:19.3 | We salute him and the game's other style at the augmented Michael Oliver |
| 0:22.5 | and ask how far Morgan Rogers and the Villa XG Dodgers can go this season. |
| 0:27.4 | Plus Arsenal on top of the table at Christmas. |
| 0:29.8 | Then again, so are turkeys and look how it ends up for them. |
| 0:32.6 | Newcastle Chelsea with St Nick and Reese's set pieces, |
| 0:36.4 | leads the Marvel of DCL and so much more in this Totally Football show. |
| 0:52.9 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:58.8 | Greetings to you if you're following us on our YouTube channel of a Sunday night. |
| 1:05.3 | And otherwise if you're with us from Monday morning onwards with the podcast, welcome on board. |
| 1:07.2 | We've got Mark Carey here in the studio. |
| 1:07.7 | Hi, Mark. |
| 1:08.5 | Hello, James. |
| 1:10.1 | Lovely to see you. |
| 1:12.7 | While on the big screen, Adrian Clark. James. Lovely to see you. While on the big screen, Adrian Clark. |
| 1:19.5 | Hello. Lovely to see you, Adrian. And Daniel's story, of course. Hi, James. How are you? I'm very well. |
| 1:25.3 | Thank you, Daniel. Lovely to have you on board as usual on a Sunday. Did you have a busy Saturday? |
| 1:36.4 | What have you been up to? Yeah, I was at Swansea Wrexham on Friday night to see one of the great goalkeeper bloopers I've ever seen live from Rexham's goalkeeper in the last minute. |
| 1:45.3 | And then Blackburn against Millwall on Saturday lunchtime because Blackburn fans are starting to gear up for protest season at Ewood Park. |
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