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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The ‘Try Your Hardest, Lads’ Cup

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

Premier League, Sports, Champions League, World Cup, Soccer,

4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo, Daniel Storey, Michael Cox and Sasha Goryunov review the weekend’s derbies and how they impact upon the the race for the title and top four. Plus, pontifications on the expected assists, Ji-Dong Won’s second act, and a new name for the SheBelieves CupRUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Klopp blows the Merseyside derby (02m 00s)• PART 1b: City roll on - but at what cost (08m 30s) • PART 2: The North London derby (15m 40s)• PART 3a: United 3 - 2 Saints and a look ahead to PSG (25m 40s) • PART 3b: PSG v United and Dortmund v Spurs previews (29m 40s)• PART 3c: Fulham 1 - 2 Chelsea (34m 20s)• PART 4a: Classico chat - with Alvaro Romeo (40m 30s)
• PART 4b: More from around Europe (46m 00s)
• PART 4c: Championship round-up with love for Leeds and Jack Grealish (49m 20s)• PART 4e: The SheBelieves Cup (51m 30s)• PART 5a: Watford ruin Brendan’s big day and the rest of the PL (53m 20s)• PART 5b: The odds with Paddy Power’s Lee Price (59m 10s)• PART 6: Exeunt omnes (61m 10s) LIVE EVENT NEWS:• Join us for **[Totally Football Live in Liverpool at the Epstein Theatre on Mon 25 March](https://t.co/KdWd9uIjDf)** and [**Totally Football Live in Leeds' City Varieties Music Hall on Mon 15 April**](https://www.cityvarieties.co.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=CVListings&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=)GET IN TOUCH:
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0:00.0

Totally Football Show.

0:05.6

On a weekend where Liverpool faced Everton and strong breezes,

0:08.8

and tidal hopes took a blow.

0:10.7

There's Spurs Arsenal, the classical, all sorts of excitements from abroad,

0:14.0

and look forward to the midweek European action OGS at PSG,

0:17.8

Spurs at Dortmund, and will Arsenal regret their trip to round?

0:21.1

All of that coming up in Toley Football Show in association with Paddy Power.

0:38.9

Hello, listener.

0:40.3

Coming up in this totally football show, we've got, oh, it's a really stellar line-up today.

0:44.5

There's Michael Cox of zonalmarking.net.

0:47.6

And also, Michael, we can reveal Zonal Marking, the book.

0:52.7

Yes, that's out in late May. Right. It's a book about the development of European football ever last. I could have sworn you said you were never writing another book. Well, I wanted to keep it a secret, James. Wow, you certainly have. It wasn't quite finished. I didn't want to, you know, if I'd perished, it would have been... Before it come out? Yeah. What was the biggest turning point that you came across in your research for European football? Maybe the Bosman ruling was a huge deal. Or Gazadalaccio, that's another huge one. Gazeta Latsio was big, yeah. Did someone like to look about that? Yeah, I mean, it's good. No, but that's fair. The Bosman ruling. The Bosman ruling. Now, also here today, a man who knows loads of good stories.

1:11.8

He sees them every Christmas.

1:13.1

It's Daniels. No, but that's fair, the Bosman ruling. The Bosman ruling. Now, also here today, a man who knows loads of good stories, he sees them every Christmas.

1:30.8

It's Daniel's story.

1:32.2

Yeah.

1:33.0

Hi, Daniel.

1:33.9

Good morning.

1:34.2

And just back from Boiling Football's Bunny, it's Sasha Gurionov.

1:38.5

Morning, James.

1:39.3

Hi, you've had a busy weekend, Sasha.

1:40.9

You were planning to go to Merseyside, Crayven Cottage and Wembley.

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