There’s no decimal place in football
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo welcomes back Michael Cox, Duncan Alexander and Dom Fifield ahead of a weekend fixture list packed full of potential drama.
Chelsea breeze past Spurs in the Carabao Cup semi-final. Now they travel to the Etihad, needing a win against Man City to keep the title race alive. So with a point probably being a great result, how will Pep approach this match?
As for Spurs, it’s the North London derby and the first managerial meeting of Antonio Conte and Mikel Arteta. Will we see the all-action Conte on the touchline once again after a few dispiriting performances?
There’s huge controversy at AFCON with the referee at Tunisia v Mali blowing the full-time whistle early. Not once but twice. Maher Mezahi was there and fills us in on the latest goings on at the tournament.
We discuss Newcastle’s Chris Wood, Sierra Leone’s Steven Caulker and Michael Olise – the new Adnan Januzaj?
Plus goal average. How was that ever a thing?
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: Chelsea through to the Carabao Cup final (03m 00s)
• PART 1b: Man City v Chelsea preview (08m 00s)
• PART 2: Spurs v Arsenal & Brighton v Palace – two big derbies (16m 00s)
• PART 3: Controversy at AFCON with Maher Mezahi (26m 00s)
• PART 4: West Ham v Leeds & Aston Villa v Man Utd previews (41m 00s)
• PART 5: The rest of the Premier League weekend (55m 00s)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:04.6 | Totally Football Show. |
| 0:10.5 | Today, huge weekend ahead in the Premier League. |
| 0:13.7 | We talked Manchester City Chelsea and the North London Derby. |
| 0:17.5 | Back up on the M23 Derby, |
| 0:19.8 | discuss Newcastle's newest member and why Jamie Vard is about the only person not having a party. Plus, Afghn, as in Afghan and blown too early and why the tournament has been a decent watch, even if the referees wasn't that much, much more on goal average than you'll ever need in this totally football show in association with Paddy Power. |
| 0:42.7 | Thursday, January the 13th. |
| 0:45.7 | All right, listener. |
| 0:47.3 | Good to have you with us. |
| 0:49.5 | Us in this case being, hey, Duncan Alexander. |
| 0:53.9 | All right, Duncan? Hello, James. Don Feifield also with us. this case being hey Duncan Alexander all right Duncan hello James don |
| 0:56.6 | Fyfield also with us hello James and equally the Sue Gray of football analysis |
| 1:02.0 | Michael Cox all right Michael hi James yes good to have your pronouncements Michael on a broad |
| 1:09.7 | range of themes it's been a it's been a busy midweek actually, on a broad range of themes. |
| 1:11.4 | It's been a busy midweek, actually. |
| 1:14.1 | Wednesday was a little bit of a litmus test of where your sensibilities lie in terms of football. |
| 1:20.1 | There was a classical in Saudi Arabia, Derby di Italia in the Italian Super Cup. |
| 1:26.0 | You had another free scoring gogasm in the Afcon. |
| 1:29.5 | Michael, you were probably off watching Kingston playing someone. |
| 1:33.2 | I'm not sure. |
| 1:34.0 | What was everyone watching? |
| 1:35.3 | Of course, there was also the League Cup semi-final that Spurs and Chelsea game. |
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