Totally Extra: Edenism - the art of enjoying Hazard

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

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Soccer, Unknown, Soccer,, Sports, Football

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🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo is joined by Duncan Alexander, Michael Cox and Matt Davies-Adams to turn back a few pages of the Totally Almanac to the Eden Hazard chapter.

Twinkling feet and a famously sturdy behind, the enigmatic Belgian won it all in his seven sparkling years at Chelsea and four injury ravaged seasons in Madrid. The panel ponder, are flair players like Hazard a dying breed?

Plus Kristof Terreur drops in to explain why Eden is so loved in Belgium despite the 'golden generation' never quite getting over the line.

Produced by Charlie Jones and Jesse Howard.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1a: Why Hazard? (00.40)

• PART 1b: Producer Charlie’s Hazardous quiz question (04.40)

• PART 1c: The Totally Extra Almanac (05.25)

• PART 2a: Celebrating Eden Hazard (07.50)

• PART 2b: Hazard’s best goals (20.00)

• PART 3a: Kristof Terreur talks Hazard for Belgium (31.20)

• PART 3b: Signing off from Chelsea in Baku (38.00)

• PART 4a: Hazard in Madrid (40.25)

• PART 4b: Do we have enough players like Hazard now? (48.30)

• PART 4c: The answer to the quiz question (56.30)

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC.
0:09.2	Totally extra.
0:10.7	Today on our roving retro roundtable, return to Eden.
0:15.4	The man, the magician, the Mercurial midfielder who made even hard-hearted neutrals loved Chelsea and left commentators drooling with his dribbling.
0:23.1	A player with huge class and a huge attribute,
0:27.1	Eden Hazard, on today's Totally Extra.
0:30.9	Thank you.
0:37.1	Unbelievable. Thursday the 13th of you, a brand new, totally extra.
0:48.6	Thank you so much for giving it a listen.
0:51.9	We've got Duncan Alexander in it.
0:53.4	Hi, James.
0:54.0	Hi, Duncan. Michael Cox is here too.
0:56.4	Hi, James. All right, Michael. Hello.
0:58.4	And brimming with Brewery Matt Davis Adams all the way from his office.
1:04.6	Yeah, that's about right. Getting ready for some serious forning on my part, I'm afraid, James.
1:09.1	Well, no, that's what we're very much here for.
1:11.0	Eden Hazard, first reaction, what he's retro already.
1:14.6	But yes, even though he only hung up his boots a few seasons back, he's already been
1:19.7	inducted just a few weeks ago into the Premier League Hall of Fame.
1:23.8	Duncan, it was actually you who wanted to do this particular theme.
1:47.5	Yeah, I think Edin Hazard is at this sort of Venn diagram of everything I like. He's good at football. Belgium. I enjoy that. He loved Belgium. He likes his cycling. He's been at Montvantau. He is... He's a fan. Has he been on Montvonne? He's a he's a big post football career cyclist yeah all right um friends with the one t gober team uh whereas they're not that good kit but anyway um
1:54.4	and then he's kind of like that weird period between the end of the ferguson era and the sort
	...

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