We’ve all got numbers
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo, Duncan Alexander, Adam Crafton and Dominic Fifield take in another frantic midweek of Champions League action and a tantalising Premier League weekend.
Man United rely on spirit, courage and Ronaldo again against Atalanta. But could Cristiano starting against Liverpool provide a problem for Solskjaer’s side?
Chelsea hammer Malmo but lose Lukaku and Werner to injury. Meanwhile Man City have got Foden, Palmer and also the Salford Silva.
Back in the Premier League, are Leeds in decline? Phil Hay tells us what the future holds this season under Marcelo Bielsa.
Newcastle travel to Crystal Palace with the sub-plot of Parish and co versus the PIF. And Adam tells us about his report on the plight of Saudi LGBT+ people.
Plus unsuccessful loans and sentient fixture computers.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: Man Utd 3-2 Atalanta (04m 00s)
• PART 1b: Atletico 2-3 Liverpool (11m 00s)
• PART 2a: Chelsea 4-0 Malmo (20m 00s)
• PART 2b: Ajax and Man City run riot (25m 00s)
• PART 3: Crystal Palace v Newcastle preview (32m 00s)
• PART 4a: The apparent decline of Leeds with Phil Hay (44m 00s)
• PART 4b: The rest of the Premier League weekend (50m 00s)
• PART 5: The odds with Paddy Power (61m 00s)
• PART 6: The plight of LGBT+ people in Saudi Arabia (63m 00s)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:08.7 | Totally Football Show. |
| 0:10.4 | It's this season's must-see drama. |
| 0:12.6 | Players with numbers on their shirts take part in a ruthless series of games |
| 0:15.8 | run by a shadowy group of faceless men with a giant piggy bank of cash over their heads. |
| 0:20.5 | Also, potential elimination. Yep, Champions League, there's nothing like it on TV, and it was very much red-light green light. The Man United this weekend in their Champions League clash with Atalanta. We'll be looking at that game. What awaits as they take on Liverpool this weekend at Old Traffat and all the rest of the midweek drama and games in prospect in the Premier League in the next few days. |
| 0:40.9 | Loads of other stuff coming up as well and it's all in this totally football show in association with Paddy Power. |
| 0:49.5 | Unbelievable. |
| 0:52.0 | Who boy, Thursday 21st of October. |
| 0:55.7 | And we've got Duncan Alexander, Adam Crafton and Dom Fyfield with us today. |
| 0:59.9 | Hello, boys. |
| 1:00.8 | Hello. |
| 1:01.3 | Hello. |
| 1:02.6 | Excellent. |
| 1:03.5 | And we're fresh, as probably a you listener, from a pretty rocking midweek in top European competition, the Champions League. |
| 1:12.4 | Duncan, did I see you positing this as the best group stage in living memory? |
| 1:17.2 | Yes, I did say that. And I think it kind of is. I think they obviously made some changes |
| 1:24.1 | in terms of seeding and stuff, which means that we do have groups now where there is |
| 1:29.0 | quite a lot of excitement and some some games looking forward to i think we got to a point maybe |
| 1:33.1 | four or five years ago where the the group stages were such a formality that everyone kind of tuned out |
| 1:38.5 | until the last 16 but um but this week again you know we had 35 goals on on Tuesday the record for for an eight game day is 40, so we weren't far off that. And then Wednesday was pretty good as well. So, yeah, good stuff. I didn't know about the changes in the seeding system. How did that work? Well, people used to complain that you used to get like three Spanish or three English |
| 2:01.9 | teams in the top eight seeds. And obviously you can't play a team from your own country in the |
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