Strong against the weak
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo, James Horncastle, Alvaro Romeo and Julien Laurens survey the footballing landscape over the continent known as Europe.
Real Madrid, Bayern and PSG edge tantalisingly close to claiming their respective titles. Christoph Biermann reflects on a mixed week in Europe for Nagelsmann’s champions elect and of course Eintracht Frankfurt in the Camp Nou.
Resurgent Roma are flying the flag for Italy in Europe under Jose Mourinho while Milan could be on the verge of a billion Euro takeover.
There are big wins for PSG and Lyon domestically but the fans remain unhappy and continue to protest.
Michiel Jongsma tells us about the Dutch Cup final where PSV beat Ajax, who are in a precarious position as they prepare for life after ten Hag.
Plus Gerard Pique’s controversial role in the Spanish Super Cup moving to Saudi Arabia. And Karim the Dream is catching.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Moment of the weekend (03m 00s)
• PART 2: Sevilla 2-3 Real Madrid and Barca out of the Europa League (06m 00s)
• PART 3a: Christoph Biermann on Frankfurt, Dortmund and Bayern (15m 00s)
• PART 3b: The Gerard Pique controversy (33m 00s)
• PART 4: Resurgent Roma and a Milan takeover? (38m 00s)
• PART 5: PSV beat Ajax in the Dutch Cup final, with Michiel Jongsma (51m 00s)
• PART 6: PSG and Lyon protests (58m 00s)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:09.1 | Totally Football Show, European edition. |
| 0:12.4 | Today, Seville, Real Madrid, Gerard Piqui Blunders. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm trapped Frankfurt, cream Catalans, Milan in the Money, Dortmund, the back, |
| 0:20.1 | the Lear Classic, and a rebuild in the Netherlands. |
| 0:22.9 | It's the Total Football Show, |
| 0:24.2 | in association with Paddy Park. |
| 0:25.5 | One to a year! |
| 0:29.1 | No, it's possible. |
| 0:32.7 | Envoyable. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm a bit. |
| 0:34.8 | This is done. This is done. Desiripres. I'm going to. It's week |
| 0:43.5 | It's commencing April the 18th listener hello. |
| 0:47.6 | Thanks for joining Team Totally. |
| 0:50.9 | We're here with Alva Romeo. |
| 0:52.3 | Hello, Alvaro. |
| 0:53.5 | Hello, James. Hello to you. Also here, James Horncastle. Hello, James. Hello, everybody. Woo. On the way, Julian Lorenz, he's on his holidays. |
| 1:06.5 | Mikhail Yongsmer, who's in the Netherlands, and Christoph Biermann. And big week for German. Football news. Criky. How are you all at? Happy Easter, Adro. Yes, thank you. It's been very nice so far. And I swim in the Atlantic as well. I took a day to go to the beach. And, yeah, I managed to do it. I thought that I wasn't going to be able to do that. But yes, it was cold, but it was very refreshing and very soothing. Yeah, absolutely. Is that a thing in Spain in the same |
| 1:34.7 | way as in Italy, the kind of the first banyetto of the year? You get your first dip, you know, |
| 1:41.5 | or... Yeah, that's a good point actually everyone says in Spain yeah I swim for the |
| 1:47.3 | first time this year I think that there is no person in Spain who wouldn't say that but then of |
| 1:51.9 | course depending on where you are from if you are from Malaga maybe you do it in late February |
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