West Ham European champions in Prague, Postecoglou appointed by Spurs and Inter stand in the way of City treble

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

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Soccer, Soccer,, Sports, Football

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo is joined by Michael Cox, Adrian Clarke and Charlie Eccleshare to discuss the Europa Conference League, Postecoglou's appointment and the Champions League Final. Benji Lanyado joins from Riga airport on his way back from West Ham's historic night in Prague, as the Hammers beat Fiorentina to win the Conference League. Spurs finally land their next manager as Celtic's treble winning Australian Ange Postecoglou is appointed 72 days after Conte was sacked. A look at what's happening in the Saudi Pro League and the Saudi's investment in sport generally with Benzema and Kante headed to the Middle East. And a preview of the Champions League final as Man City face Inzaghi's Inter as they bid to finally win their first Champions League. Produced by Jesse Howard. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: West Ham win the Conference League (02'00) • PART 2: Spurs appoint Postecoglou (17'50) • PART 3a: Transfer deals and Saudi Pro League makes it's play (30'00) • PART 3b: Some transfer roundup (33'00) • PART 4: A Champions League preview (39'00) SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC TODAY FOR £1.99 A MONTH FOR 12 MONTHS • theathletic.com/totally Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic
0:09.2	Totally football show today. Bowen, Bubbles and Benjy's Bohemian Rhapsody. We salute West
0:14.5	Sam's Europa Conference League tribe. Also, from golf clubs to golf clubs, we ask
0:19.4	are the Saudis taking over sport? We're checking on spurs as they prepare for
0:23.4	and management. And into City coaches, we express thoughts on Pepe Pippos brother
0:28.4	in Saturday's Champions League final. It's the Totally Football Show.
0:42.7	Thursday, June 8th, I make it. Hello, this is the thanks to Johnny's. What's in
0:49.1	the studio. I'm looking at Charlie Ecclescher. Hello, Charlie Ecclescher. Hello James.
0:55.0	Also, welcome back Michael Cox. Hi James. Michael's been a while.
0:59.2	He has been a while. Aside from the quiz. The quiz. Probably won't talk about that.
1:04.0	I think we will probably. We'll later. Later on, you were put out by Tom Williams, weren't
1:10.2	you? He's in the final. Yeah. Yeah. Underdog in the final, I'd say. Also put out by Tom Williams.
1:17.0	In the course of this year's Intertotally, Adrian Clark. Hello. Yeah, see what you did there.
1:22.0	Yeah, it was a narrow, narrowly defeated on the playoff. What's the phrase? Time to decide.
1:29.5	The deciliter feet is the phrase. Also, Johnny, what's so joint with this today is this man.
1:36.6	Come on, you **** guys. Unbelievable. Yeah, not Robbie Savage, that.
1:55.6	It's Benji Lanyado, another noted Hamas fan who is at the Eden Arena to witness the
2:03.2	conference league final. He's on his way back. Variga, which I mean, not to choice.
2:09.2	Quite a detail. So we talked to him very, very shortly. He's just locating a quiet nook.
2:13.9	And any thoughts you want to just throw in first of all on West Sam's triumph?
2:18.0	I loved it. We talked last week about how disappointing the Europa League final was.
2:23.8	But this was amazing. And I'd like to issue a bit of a Mayor Culper because I've been quite
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