Va-Va Voom! Tom Williams talks modern French football
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Tom Williams has written a fantastic new book all about French football from the 1980s to the present day, and he popped by the Totally studios to tell Iain Macintosh - and, by extension, you, dear listener - all about it. So plump up a cushion and brace yourself for tales of Marseilles-era Chris Waddle, Jean-Pierre Papin, Bernard Tapie, Basile Boli, Guy Roux, Claude Bez, PSG's multiple European failures and much, much more. Or beaucoup plus, as they say en français.
Get your hands on Va-Va Voom: The Modern History of French Football right now!
Presented by Iain Macintosh
Produced by Ben Green
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| 0:41.4 | The Athletic Hello and welcome to a very special edition of the Totally Football Show. |
| 0:52.5 | I'm here in the headquarters of The Athletic with Tom Williams. |
| 0:56.7 | Welcome board, Tom. |
| 0:57.8 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:58.7 | Not at all. |
| 0:59.5 | The pleasure is all mine because nearly 20 years ago, |
| 1:03.3 | as a young journalist, desperately trying to fill the gaps in my knowledge, |
| 1:07.6 | I had lots of good places to go. |
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