Tense times for Tuchel, Poch under pressure and the Club World Cup is here

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo is joined in the studio by Duncan Alexander, Tom Williams and Tim Spiers to talk about the endless football.

The Club World Cup starts this weekend with the delights of Auckland City and the new time wasting rules to look forward to. Are we excited?

England are humbled 3-1 by Senegal in friendly action. Is this just history repeating itself? And what will Thomas Tuchel gain from appearing to publicly criticise Jude Bellingham?

USA are also booed off after a home friendly thrashing, their 4th defeat in a row. Paul Tenorio tells us why these are tough times for Mauricio Pochettino.

We bring you the draw for the Inter Totally Cup, featuring three-time winner and current champion Michael Cox.

Plus Sterling hits the side netting, Tom eats burgers and what season is it anyway?

Produced by Charlie Jones.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1a: Are we excited about the Club World Cup? (01.00)

• PART 1b: England 1-3 Senegal (11.30)

• PART 1c: Belgium 4-3 Wales (20.00)

• PART 2a: Other international news (28.00)

• PART 2b: Paul Tenorio on Pochettino’s USA misery (35.00)

• PART 3a: More on the Club World Cup structure (43.00)

• PART 3b: Inter Totally Cup draw (48.00)

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0:43.0	Thank you. The Athletic FC Podcast Network. Totally football show today, Lions of Taranga three, three lines of two call one.
0:50.0	We review a Senegal, England game where Diara plus England's rear, headed up to a decent description of the home side's performance.
0:57.4	Also, Gulf of America, we catch up with the latest US collapse under Mauricio Pochitino.
1:03.0	We taught the latest transfers and look ahead to a summer tournament that one board Supremo wanted,
1:07.6	but some say will push our weary stars too far. The Int Totally Cup.
1:11.6	Also, Club World Cup preview.
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1:17.3	Thursday at the 12th of June.
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1:22.4	Hi, Duncan Alexander.
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