World Cup Draw: England v Croatia, Scotland v Brazil + a good result for USA
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
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🗓️ 6 December 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo is joined by Duncan Alexander, Natalie Gedra and a host of guests from around the world for a special Totally Extra reacting to the 2026 World Cup Draw.
Are England in the 'Group of death'? They face Ghana, Croatia and Panama in Group L. Scotland face Brazil and Morocco in Group C as they did back at France 98 and it's Mbappe vs Haaland in Group I.
Plus Paul Tenorio drops in from snowy Washington to tell us what the draw means for USMNT, Maher Mezahi joins from Algeria to discuss the draw from an African perspective and Lee Wingate from The Sweeper pod talks us through the fate of some of the smaller nations.
Produced by Charlie Jones and Jesse Howard.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Initial reactions to the draw (00.40)
• PART 2: England’s Group L draw (06.45)
• PART 3a: Groups A, B and C (14.40)
• PART 3b: Maher Mehazi drops in (22.30)
• PART 4a: Groups D, E, F and G (34.30)
• PART 4b: Paul Tenorio drops in (37.20)
• PART 5a: Groups H, I, J and K (42.05)
• PART 5b: Lee Wingate drops in (46.00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC. |
| 0:09.2 | Totally Extra. Today, draw. |
| 0:12.3 | FIFA weren't quick on it, but it's done, and now we know who's got which group at the 2026 World Cup. |
| 0:19.0 | Totally Extra goes to Ellen back for you. |
| 0:21.6 | To sum up Friday's momentous sorting hat-a-thon, |
| 0:24.7 | the teams that could, the teams that should, |
| 0:26.7 | from dark horses to sides that have more parrots than players, |
| 0:30.2 | it's the FIFA-26 World Cup draw on this Totally Extra. |
| 0:43.7 | Unbelievable. this totally extra. Saturday the 6th of December. |
| 0:45.9 | Listener, welcome on board to this totally extra. |
| 0:49.4 | We've got a global spread ready to talk to us about what happened in Washington Friday night. |
| 0:55.6 | Natalie Jedra of Sky Sports is here. Hi, Natalie. |
| 0:58.7 | Hello. |
| 1:00.3 | Hi, Natalie. Excited? |
| 1:02.6 | Excited is one of the adjectives I would use, yes. |
| 1:06.7 | All right. Duncan, what adjective describes your state right now? |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, very excited, actually. I like seeing the draw emerge like a butterfly. |
| 1:17.5 | So, yeah, now I can envisage how things are going to pan out next summer. |
| 1:23.4 | So, yeah. |
| 1:24.1 | Wow. |
| 1:24.6 | Pumped. |
| 1:25.2 | Yeah, for the flapping of those wings. |
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