Traumatic and frantic
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo, Daniel Storey and Tom Williams reflect on a day overshadowed by the dramatic collapse of Christian Eriksen.
Denmark’s star man is thankfully in a stable condition after requiring CPR on the pitch against Finland.
Away from Copenhagen, Belgium dismantle Russia and Wales are fortunate to escape with a draw against Switzerland, thanks to the efforts of Kieffer Moore and Danny Ward. But did Robert Page get his selection wrong?
England v Croatia is the big game on Sunday. Juraj Vrdoliak tells us about a team in transition since the World Cup, while the FA once again clarify the meaning behind taking the knee.
Plus a big day for North Macedonia and some bold predictions from De Boer.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: The collapse of Christian Eriksen (01m 00s)
• PART 2a: Belgium 3-0 Russia (08m 30s)
• PART 2b: The booing of the knee continues (12m 30s)
• PART 2c: Wales 1-1 Switzerland (15m 30s)
• PART 3a: England v Croatia preview with Juraj Vrdoliak (22m 00s)
• PART 3b: Netherlands v Ukraine preview (32m 30s)
• PART 3c: Austria v North Macedonia preview with Filip Mishov (36m 00s)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello everybody and welcome to the TotallyOTI football show at the Euro. |
| 0:23.7 | Saturday's action was about one man above all levels. |
| 0:27.0 | Christian Erickson, Danish Star collapsing towards the end of the first half of Denmark's game with Finland. |
| 0:33.7 | We all feared the worst. |
| 0:34.7 | Thankfully, he was soon conscious and is receiving treatment now in hospital. |
| 0:40.3 | Our best wishes to him for a continued recovery. |
| 0:43.9 | The game, to many people's surprise, continued a short time later on Saturday evening. |
| 0:48.9 | And I'm joined now by Tom Williams and Daniel's story to cover what happened in that and in Saturday's other matches as well as look ahead to Sunday's games. |
| 0:58.7 | England, Croatia, Netherlands, Ukraine and Austria, North Macedonia. |
| 1:03.6 | Tom, Daniel, hello. |
| 1:06.1 | Hi, James. |
| 1:06.9 | Hi, James. |
| 1:07.8 | Hi there. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah, well, Saturday evening was a dramatic evening. |
| 1:12.2 | It was at times an extremely traumatic evening. |
| 1:15.1 | But at the moment when the pictures came through of Christian Erickson with his eyes open and sitting up, what a relief that was. |
| 1:23.8 | Yeah, I mean, it was a pretty horrible thing to witness. |
| 1:27.8 | It was very quickly apparent that something serious had happened from the TV pictures |
| 1:33.9 | and very quickly found myself feeling sick, you know, at the scene that was unfolding. And then there was, you know, at the scene that was unfolding. |
| 1:45.5 | And then there was, you know, a very anxious period of, I don't know, what, you know, 20 minutes or so when, you know, you're just sort of sitting there paralyzed watching the footage, keeping an eye on Twitter, looking for updates. |
| 2:01.3 | And then there was that photo that came through on Twitter of Erickson being taken off the pitch on a stretcher and, you know, seems to be conscious. |
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