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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

Totally Tomori: James Horncastle meets Fikayo in Milan

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

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

4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Totally Football Show European Edition's James Horncastle heads to Milan to talk to Rossoneri and England defender Fikayo Tomori.


Hear more about life at San Siro, the Milan derby atmosphere, the toughest opponents to play against in Serie A and what it's like to share a workplace with Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paolo Maldini.


You can read James's piece on The Athletic here: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7086014/2026/03/06/fikayo-tomori-milan-career-italy-interview/


Or watch the interview on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/PlUM2YXNfwc


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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Athletic FC

0:03.3

Hello there and welcome to a bonus Saturday helping of the Totally Football Show.

0:14.5

Recently, James Horncastle of The Athletic and our Totally Football Show European edition

0:18.8

headed over to Milan to speak to Milan

0:21.5

and England defender Fikaru

0:23.2

here is what they said.

0:28.5

I'm James Horn Gassel from The Athletic

0:30.3

and welcome to Milan.

0:32.0

I'm here to see one of the locals,

0:34.5

not Franco Borezi, not Paolo Maldini,

0:37.1

but someone who knows this city very well. He's lived here for five years, so let's go check it out. Fikayo, how are you? You well? Nice to see you. Nice to see you as well. Thank you for doing this. No worries. Thanks for welcoming us to your neighbourhood. Thank you very much. It's a nice little scenic place, isn't it? It is. My only concern is it's right next to

0:55.2

inter's offices. Yeah, we try not to look over that side, but no, it's a nice, nice little

1:00.5

sport. What do you like about living in Milan? It's just a very easy city. Like, London,

1:07.7

coming from London, everything's very hundred miles an hour, very fast, and there's always traffic and noise.

1:13.7

But here is, it's a lot quieter.

1:15.9

Yeah.

1:16.2

The pace of life is a lot slower.

1:18.5

So you like that, Lavie de Lainver.

1:20.2

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly.

1:22.2

You've got friends outside of football here?

1:24.2

Do you know what?

1:24.9

I think my friends are my teammates because we see each other so much and

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