Salah lets loose on Liverpool as Villa blow title race wide open
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Matt Davies-Adams is in the hot seat to pick apart the Premier League weekend with Daniel Storey, Reuben Pinder and Colin Millar.
Leeds fight back against Liverpool in a scintillating 3-3 draw at Elland Road. But the headlines are all about Mo Salah who voiced his discontent about being on the bench for the last 3 matches. And how. What does the future hold for Salah and Slot?
Aston Villa shake up the Premier League title race with a last-gasp victory over Arsenal, ending the leaders' 18 game unbeaten run. Can Unai Emery mastermind a championship challenge?
Crystal Palace go 4th in the table after Marc Guehi's late winner at Craven Cottage, as Oliver Glasner continues to raise the ceiling for the Eagles.
Elsewhere Everton are flying high after a 3-0 win over Forest, their 4th victory in 5 matches. Europe anyone?
Plus one of the goals of the season from Harry Wilson and one of the assists of the season from Rayan Cherki.
Produced by Charlie Jones
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: Aston Villa 2-1 Arsenal (02.30)
• PART 1b: Leeds 3-3 Liverpool (16.00)
• PART 1c: Mo Salah’s public discontent (21.00)
• PART 2a: Man City 3-0 Sunderland (34.00)
• PART 2b: Bournemouth 0-0 Chelsea (41.00)
• PART 3a: Fulham 1-2 Crystal Palace (45.00)
• PART 3b: All square at the Amex while Spurs finally win at home (50.00)
• PART 3c: Everton win again, Burnley lose again (55.00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Totally football show. |
| 0:11.5 | Today, a Buendia for Emery as Emmy enhances Villa's title credentials. |
| 0:16.4 | It's mo-moaning more problems for Slot as Salks and Liverpool lose lead at Leeds. There's ominous |
| 0:22.4 | city, some frankly overdue |
| 0:24.4 | home comforts for Spurs, |
| 0:26.2 | Tiano Barry's Big Dickinson Energy, |
| 0:28.5 | Oliver Glasner's High Flying Eagles |
| 0:30.1 | and much, much more to come. |
| 0:32.0 | On this, totally football show. |
| 0:43.2 | Unbelievable. Football Show. Sunday night for us and for you too, YouTube live viewer. |
| 0:47.1 | Welcome also to the podcast Fundamentalist, tuning in at your leisure, and also to our panel in the studio Colin Miller. |
| 0:55.2 | Colin, all Northern Ireland need to do is be Italy, then Wales, then Bosnia, |
| 1:00.1 | and you're at the World Cup in a group with Canada, Switzerland and Qatar. |
| 1:03.2 | It's a small mountain to climb. |
| 1:04.7 | Simple, isn't it? Simple. |
| 1:06.4 | Yeah, it is hard to believe there's so many teams in the draw to begin with, |
| 1:10.4 | of which Northern Ireland are still won. It's quite in the draw to begin with, of which Northern |
| 1:10.8 | and Ars still won. |
| 1:11.8 | It's quite a tricky path to the finals, albeit it's almost more frustrating that you then have a grip and you think, oh, we could actually probably do quite well in that. So yeah, there's a long way to go. I'm not getting too far ahead of myself. But yeah, it's nice to still be involved. It's the hope that it kills you. Also in the studio with me, Ruben Pinder, |
| 1:27.9 | fresh from watching his beloved Crystal Palace win again in the Premier League. It could be another golden season. I am maybe getting a bit ahead of myself, unlike Colin. Champions League, here we come. On the big screen, Daniel Story, who was in Snowy Washington, D.C. for the long-awaited sequel to Rio's World Cup windups on Friday. |
| 1:47.3 | You've watched the weekends football across multiple time zones, and I'm guessing through bleary eyes, Daniel. Yes, I have been awake for, I think, 30 hours as we record. So I don't know how that goes. I've watched a lot of Premier League football. So maybe it ends in sort of horrific hot takes and producers Charlie asked me to do it every weekend. Well, if you need a sedative, Brighton versus West Ham for 75 minutes will be good for what ails you. Right, after review is the catchphrase du jour in the Premier League and it it'll be applicable come the end of the end of the pod. |
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