Totally football show.

Today, League Cup.

Do you, Carabao, the Carabal Cup?

Has the team been born that will ever beat Man City?

And in the week, the Bristol City exposed Peps thermal exhaust ball,

could Liverpool drop a thermal torpedo down there this weekend in the Premier League?

Also coming up today, how do you pronounce Jenk Tussune, like that?

And why he can't come Tussune for the Toffees as they face Spurs?

Also, with Andrevilles Poes now out of the Dakar rally,

how will the car fare under Roberto de Mateo?

There's Premier League previews and the

Rooney Rule designed to cover up that glaring gap at the top. Is that why it's called

the Rooney Rule? It's all coming up in this Totally Football Show.

All right, today's show is featuring quite a stellar line-up, actually. We've got Michael Cox from The Mixer. Hi, James. Hi. What, you were thinking I was going to go zonal marking.net on that. Yeah, but the paperback is out today. Bingo. So thanks for that. Wow. I'd still plump for the hardback because it's one you want to keep. Yeah want to keep. Yeah, sold out those seats. Oh, really? You can't have mine. Rory Smith, hello, from the New York Times. Yes. Wow. Here's a question for you. It's all right, it's okay. You may look the other way. We can try to understand the New York Times effect on man. What song is that? I don't know. Daniel's story? Good morning, James.

Do you have any idea? No idea, no. Okay. I'll reveal the answer later on. But you're in as well from Football 365. Yep, lovely to be here. That's brilliant news. I've got a question for you, straight off the bat, actually. Okay. Tom Beifield says, how do you feel about having Aitul Karanka in at Forest? Reasonably promising. If we're going to have a manager here for less than a year, as is customary at the city ground, it might as well be a half-decent one. Okay. We are shambolic defensively, and that's kind of what he did at Middlesbrough. though he at Midasra he made them very very boring in attack but I don't think you can

make our

attack shambolic defensively and that's kind of what he did at middlesbrough. Though at middlesbrough, he made them very, very boring in attack but I don't think you can make our attack with that many sort of academy kids. I don't think you can make them boring. So that'll be a challenge for him. All right. Cut to this time in nine months. Yeah. Daniel Strait. Yeah. Okay. In the meantime, you must have really enjoyed the victory over Arsenal. Yes, it was brilliant. It was like a game we've not seen for a long time, which is frustrating

in one way, as is, as always happens, there's a kind of tinge of regret that if you can play

like that every week, why can't you play like that against every championship team? But yeah,

fantastic. I actually thought we'd get pumped, so I was, yeah, delighted. Okay, very nice. Okay, well, we've got a broad selection of people, the mixer, Football 365, The New York Times, and me fresh in from The Darts at Fremley Green. So my question is, what have I missed this week? Rory, there's been League Cup semifinals? Oh, there's been so many League Cup semifinals.

Manchester City now really beat Bristol City, and then Chelsea and Arsenal also played.

Which wasn't quite the life-affirming experience that it had been the previous occasion about a week before?

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