Totally Extra: Fernando Torres - the story of El Niño
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo is joined by Duncan Alexander, Sasha Goryunov and special guest filmmaker and Liverpool fanatic Asif Kapadia, as they open up the Totally Extra almanac on Fernando Torres.
A boyhood Atletico Madrid fan turned hometown hero at his local club, Torres' lightning pace and prolific goalscoring earned him a move to Anfield where he quickly won the hearts of the Liverpool faithful and forged a special bond with Steven Gerrard.
A World Cup and Euros winner with Spain in arguably their greatest ever era, but injuries held him back as he he made the controversial move to Chelsea, before finishing his career back at Atletico and finally in Japan.
The panel ponder why despite not winning anything at Anfield and moving to a rival, El Niño is so loved on Merseyside.
Plus, Jimbo flicks through the Totally Almanac on this week and there's a Torres themed quiz question.
Produced by Charlie Jones, Lucy OIiva and Jesse Howard.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: The panel discuss Asif’s recent film Dalglish and why they love Torres (00.40)
• PART 1b: Torres themed quiz question (06.30)
• PART 1c: The Totally Extra Almanac (07.20)
• PART 2a: Torres’ beginnings in Madrid (12.30)
• PART 2b: El Niño at Anfield (15.00)
• PART 3: Torres at Chelsea (42.30)
• PART 4a: A return to Madrid (54.00)
• PART 4b: The final farewell in Japan (58.00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC. |
| 0:09.2 | Totally extra. |
| 0:11.0 | Today, Cheeky Nando, the Fernando Torres story. |
| 0:14.7 | Liverpool's number nine dream, who made supporters scream, |
| 0:18.0 | and Gary Neville Cream, |
| 0:19.4 | and is now manager of Athletico Madrid's B team. We tackle El Nenio |
| 0:23.0 | in a way Nomaniavich could never |
| 0:24.7 | quite in this totally extra. |
| 0:43.4 | Unbelievable. Unbelievable. It's in around Wednesday, the 17th of December. |
| 0:47.5 | Hello, listener. |
| 0:48.5 | Gathered here for you in Totally Studio 1. |
| 0:50.8 | We've got Duncan Alexander. |
| 0:52.0 | Hi, Duncan. |
| 0:52.5 | Hello, James. |
| 0:53.1 | Hello to you. |
| 1:13.0 | We got Sasha Gurinov. Welcome back to Sasha. Hello, James. Lovely to see you. And also welcome back, Asif Capadia. Hi, James. Hi. It's been a while since you've joined us. I think 2018, maybe. 18 or 19, Maradona. Yeah. I feel like I've been on a couple of times, though, but each time you were away. |
| 1:14.1 | Right, right. |
| 1:15.7 | Sasha's had a similar experience. |
| 1:16.4 | Absolutely. |
| 1:17.8 | It just happens all the time. |
| 1:18.4 | All right. |
| 1:19.3 | So you've been avoiding me. |
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