The evolution of strength
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Join Jimbo, Duncan Alexander, Nick Miller and Adrian Clarke for the pre-Christmas Totally Football Show.
The Carabao Cup quarter-finals provide much excitement with Leicester missing a golden opportunity to knock out Liverpool. And Tottenham continue to flourish under their scary Italian man.
Next up for the Foxes is a trip to the Etihad on Sunday, while low-scoring Chelsea look to break down Steven Gerrard’s Villa.
Plus Boxing Day 1963, the December 2006 goal of the month, Keown in the baths at Highbury, Roadhouse and World’s Strongest Man.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: The latest Covid landscape (05m 00s)
• PART 1b: Carabao Cup quarter-final round up (08m 30s)
• PART 2a: Boxing Day – what’s the big deal? (26m 00s)
• PART 2b: Man City v Leicester & Aston Villa v Chelsea previews (33m 30s)
• PART 3a: Sherwood and his gilet (45m 00s)
• PART 3b: Norwich v Arsenal preview (48m 00s)
• PART 4a: The December 2006 Goal Of The Month competition (50m 00s)
• PART 4b: The rest of the Premier League weekend (55m 00s)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:02.7 | Totally Football's Show. |
| 0:11.0 | Twas the pod before Christmas and everything was stirring in football's house |
| 0:14.9 | with fixtures arriving thick and fast like Dominic Rab on a reindeer |
| 0:18.7 | and cup games with more gifted kids than Santa's |
| 0:21.8 | to-do list. |
| 0:22.7 | We'll be wrapping it all up for you today on this Totally Football, Show Ho-Ho! |
| 0:28.0 | At association with Paddy Park. Unbelievable. Unbelievably |
| 0:42.0 | Miss. |
| 0:47.2 | Yeah, listener. |
| 0:48.9 | December 23rd, eh? |
| 0:50.5 | Here we go. |
| 0:52.2 | We've got Duncan Alexander and Adrian Clark and a big hello to Nick Miller today on two-by football show. |
| 0:58.4 | All right, fellas. |
| 0:59.9 | Hello. |
| 1:00.2 | Jungle bells. Yeah, season's greetings. Absolutely. It's a special time of year, isn't it? You can be as cynical as you like. |
| 1:08.0 | Sick of the way it's become commercialized. But there's something about the Carabar Cup quarterfinals that just melts the heart. |
| 1:14.5 | It's cliche to be cynical about Christmas, as half-man, half-piscuit once said. |
| 1:19.0 | Wow, yeah. So true, so true. Carabar Cup, though, we were being a little bit, well, snarky about it the other day I believe the... The Carabat Cup is now... The quarterfinals and semi-finals the Carabarabat Cup are now some of the best bits of the football season. Yeah, why is that? Because I think sort of 10, 15 years ago, Premier League teams didn't take it seriously |
| 1:44.3 | and, you know, |
| 1:45.1 | Arsengen used to get criticized for playing the kids, et cetera, but now it's actually something that I think a lot of teams, Liverpool may be accepted, a lot of teams want to win. And if you get through to this stage, they start to take it pretty seriously. And so, yeah, I mean, some of the games in recent memory at this stage have been brilliant. |
| 1:43.2 | And also that that week just before it pretty seriously. Right. And so, yeah, I mean, some of the games in recent memory at this stage have been brilliant. |
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