Totally Extra: Boxing Day '63, Phil Brown and all things festive football...
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo is joined by Charlie Eccleshare, Duncan Alexander and Daniel Storey for a Totally Extra festive football special.
The panel discuss Boxing Day football, the Victorian tradition of playing during the workers' time off which has provided some classic days of football over the years, from the 66 goals in 1963 to Phil Brown's on-pitch team talk in 2008.
They also discuss Christmas-time managerial sackings, including Jose Mourinho's Dad and posit purposeful Christmas cards for players trying to get time off.
Plus a Christmas-themed quiz and your questions.
Produced by Charlie Jones and Jesse Howard.
• PART 1a: Your Christmas Football questions (00.40)
• PART 1b: The Criz’ Quiz question (06.59)
• PART 1c: The Totally Extra Almanac (10.02)
• PART 2: Boxing Day Football through the years (12.45)
• PART 3: Man City v Hull Boxing Day 2008 (30.00)
• PART 4a: Yuletime sackings (36.25)
• PART 4b: Christmas cards (40.30)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC. |
| 0:09.2 | Totally extra. |
| 0:11.0 | Today, festive football edition. |
| 0:13.4 | We parked the XG for the X-Mass to talk about why the game is so special at this time of year. |
| 0:19.2 | There's our favourite Christmas football memories |
| 0:21.0 | from Phil Brown to Felix Marino. |
| 0:23.6 | There's late December back in 63, |
| 0:25.8 | why they really had a dingong merrily. |
| 0:28.0 | Christmas cards, |
| 0:29.1 | a special Yuletide sacoamail, |
| 0:31.5 | probably a partridge and a pear tree too. |
| 0:34.7 | Or in this, |
| 0:35.9 | Christmas totally extra. |
| 0:40.3 | Unbelievable! pear tree too, or in this Christmas totally extra. Unbelievable, unbelievable this. |
| 0:43.3 | You there, boy, what day is this? |
| 0:45.3 | Well, it's 10 a.m. on Friday, 18th of December for us, but don't mind that because it's probably the 27th of December or thereafter for you. |
| 0:53.8 | And therefore, very much in the thick of what I like to call Duncan Alexander the festive football period. |
| 1:01.5 | Ho, ho, ho. Indeed so. Duncan's here with us as is Charlie Eccleshare. Hello. Merry holidays to you. |
| 1:09.8 | Thanks very much. Thank you. Merry holidays to you as well very much. Thank you. |
| 1:11.1 | Merry holidays to you as well. |
| 1:12.2 | And joining us from his tinsel decorated loft, it's Daniel Story. |
| 1:19.7 | Hi, Daniel. |
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