Will Haaland help City topple Liverpool? Will the Black Cats be bad luck for Arsenal?

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

Soccer, Unknown, Soccer,, Sports, Football

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo's accompanied by Charlie Eccleshare, Mark Carey and Duncan Alexander for a closer inspection of Wednesday night's Champions League action - and a look ahead to MD11 in the Premier League.

In the UCL there was end-to-end chaos in Bruges, potentially costly dropped points for Chelsea out in Azerbaijan - and a sensational header from Dan Burn as Newcastle picked up their third straight European victory. But - as City blew away Dortmund - is the disparity between the Premier League and the other sides across the continent growing bigger and bigger?

Then it's back to domestic affairs - and the small matter of Manchester City v Liverpool on Sunday afternoon as both sides seek out a win to try and keep pace with leaders Arsenal. But could the Gunners have already stretched the gap to nine points if they can be the first side to win at the Stadium of Light this season on Saturday evening?

All that plus the Europa League final rematch, the battle for Pease Pottage services - and bags of snakes.

Produced by Charlie Jones and Lucy Oliva.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1a: Hellos, milestones - and Big Dan Burn's header (00.50)

• PART 1b: A rundown of Wednesday night’s Champions League results (05.20)

• PART 2a: Club Brugge 3-3 Barcelona (07.40)

• PART 2b: Qarabag 2-2 Chelsea (15.30)

• PART 3a: Newcastle 2-0 Athletic Club (21.00)

• PART 3b: Manchester City 4-1 Borussia Dortmund (24.45)

• PART 4a: What does the table tell us after 10 games? (30.15)

• PART 4b: Coming up this Premier League weekend (33.15)

• PART 4c: Manchester City v Liverpool preview (34.10)

• PART 4d: Sunderland v Arsenal preview (38.35)

• PART 5a: Tottenham v Manchester United preview (44.25)

• PART 5b: Crystal Palace v Brighton preview (48.40)

• PART 5c: Brentford v Newcastle preview (50.30)

• PART 5d: Aston Villa v Bournemouth preview (51.40)

• PART 5e: The rest of the MD11 action (52.45)

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC
0:03.2	Tully Football Show today, open wide.
0:13.4	Here's more Champions League.
0:15.2	We round up Wednesday's action from Chelsea's Blues in Baco to Bruges,
0:19.2	where a man called Forbes put Bascer's rich guys in their places,
0:22.5	to the Etihad where City had Foden Explodin and Dortmund in Bits,
0:25.8	to Tynesite where Newcastle's Mr Burns made Bilbao his own personal smithers.
0:31.0	Plus, we get set for Premier League match day, 11 City Liverpool,
0:35.1	Sunderland Arsenal at the Stadium of Light and a Europa League final rematch
0:39.2	in North London, all that and more
0:41.0	in this Toley Football Show.
0:47.1	Thursday, 6th of November
0:49.2	and welcome to the Totally Football Show today
0:51.3	with us, Mark Kerry, hello, Mark,
0:53.8	a.k.a. Mr. 10 games into the Season. I'll claim it. I'll claim it as my own. Right. Well, we'll be hearing about some of your Ten Game Into the Season observations later on. Duncan Alexander is here as well, and men for whom Ten Games Into the Season is a special time as well yeah just I mean I don't even look at
1:11.2	league tables until 10 games in so this week because it means nothing until 10 games
1:16.4	in so imagine my surprise when I looked and saw Arsenal so far clear at the top
1:21.3	well I can I can imagine that surprise weirdly you say it means nothing until this
1:25.8	point and Marquir says that it means nothing after this. It's all done by 10 games into the season. I thought the reason you'd like 10 games into the season is you can make football formations out of the win-draw loss columns. I also like that, yeah, that is good. Charlie Ocichol, what do you like? Do you like Dan Byrne's sick heedders?
1:45.9	Yes, that was an incredible header.
1:47.6	Trippiest ball in there and Byrne was arriving.
1:53.4	You won't see too many better headers than that.
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