Starting to get the tingles
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The Premier League season is almost upon us and Jimbo is joined by the excited trio of Dom Fifield, Natalie Gedra and Tom Williams.
The headline fixture of the opening weekend is Tottenham hosting Man City. If City don’t sign Harry Kane, does that hurt their championship chances? Will European champions Chelsea take the title with their incredible squad depth?
Further down the table, there are big questions to be answered. Do Everton represent the biggest challenge of Benitez’s career? Are Palace fans right to be optimistic about Patrick Vieira? How much are Southampton gambling with their transfer policy?
Billy Grant from the Beesotted podcast joins us on the eve of Brentford’s Premier League bow against Arsenal. And are Norwich about to surprise us all?
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: Opening day nerves? (02m 30s)
• PART 1b: Spurs v Man City and the title race (08m 30s)
• PART 2a: Chelsea win the Super Cup (30m 00s)
• PART 2b: New managers in the Premier League (37m 00s)
• PART 3a: Brentford’s hopes with Billy Grant from the Beesotted podcast (49m 30s)
• PART 3b: The promoted clubs and the battle to stay up (55m 00s)
• PART 4: The odds with Paddy Power (63m 00s)
• PART 5: Thoughts on Villa, West Ham and Newcastle (65m 00s)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:03.5 | This season, the world's biggest football podcast network is even bigger. |
| 0:07.6 | Alongside our three weekly episodes of Totally and the two Totally Football League shows, |
| 0:11.5 | we've got three episodes of the all-new athletic football podcast with Mark Chapman. |
| 0:15.8 | Adam Hurry's football clichés will now be with you on Mondays and Wednesdays. |
| 0:19.3 | There are two lots of Michael Cox on our tactics podcasts, and we've revamped our FPL and women's football shows. Our Liverpool Man United, Chelsea and Tottenham Club podcasts are now twice a week. And don't forget, we've also got our TIFO, Offside Rule and Football Manager shows too. There are also amazing new series with both Kelly Kate's and Jackie Yodi coming |
| 0:37.9 | up later in the year, so stay tuned for those. You can listen to all of these podcasts across |
| 0:42.0 | our network in all the usual places or ad free on the Athletic app. The Athletic, the |
| 0:47.2 | world's biggest football podcast network. Another Totally Football Show. |
| 1:00.2 | Today, stop your grinning and drop your linen. |
| 1:03.1 | And get ready to start your winning because it's the opening weekend of the season. |
| 1:06.6 | We look at big dreams, big opening day disappointments, what happened at Windsor Park, |
| 1:11.5 | Raffa on the other side of Stanley Park, |
| 1:13.4 | a big year for bees, a quiet one for armpits, |
| 1:16.2 | and can anyone stop Man City, |
| 1:18.4 | all that and much, much more in this totally football show |
| 1:20.9 | in association with Paddy Power. Unbelievable. |
| 1:30.2 | Here we are then, listener, and today on Totally, it's a big hello to Don Fyfield. |
| 1:37.8 | Hi, Dom. |
| 1:38.8 | Hi, James. |
| 1:39.5 | How you doing? |
| 1:40.7 | Yeah, pretty good. |
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