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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

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James Richardson and Team Totally are here three times a week throughout the season with all the football news and chat you need - and plenty that you don’t.

Episodes

Return to sender

RUNNING ORDER: PART 1a: Best ice cream in town (01m 00s) PART 2a: Gareth Bale and Dani Ceballos news and updates with Alvaro Romeo (03m 10s) PART 2b: The rising cost of footballers (06m 00s) PART 3a: German focus including Chelsea, Newcastle, and Bayern (11m 10s) PART 4a: Italian focus including Lukaku and Higuain (23m 50s) PART 4b: Ronaldo case update (30m 20s) PART 5a: The odds with Lee Price from Paddy Power (35m 30s) PART 5b: Leeds, Leeds, Leeds, and Instagram's rich list (36m 40s) TFS LIVE ...

Jul 25, 201949 min

Behind closed doors

RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: More Scatman John (01m 00s) • PART 1b: Zlatan gonna Zlatan and the best footballing (02m 20s) • PART 2a: Gareth Bale heads to the Real exit door (06m 30s) • PART 2b: Pochettino’s future (10m 00s) • PART 2c: Father and son combos at the same club (12m 30s) • PART 2d The Huddersfield kit hoo-haa and the best/worst sponsors of all time (15m 50s) • PART 3a: Mason Greenwood and other pre-season stars (18m 20s) • PART 3b: Focus on Aston Villa - with Nick Miller (24m 30s) • PA...

Jul 22, 201942 min

An Englishman abroad... and back again

RUNNING ORDER: PART 1a: Steve Bruce goes to Newcastle, officially (01m 30s) PART 1b: Further Bruce thoughts with Lee Ryder from the Newcastle Chronicle (03m 30s) PART 1c: Joey Barton news (08m 10s) PART 2a: de Ligt in Turin as Juve aim to be youthful (11m 20s) PART 2b: Haller becomes a Hammer with Raf Honigstein (14m 40s) PART 3c: Lookman to Leipzig, Delph to Everton, Trippier to Atleti, and Ravel to Blades (17m 20s) PART 4: AFCON Final preview (32m 40s) PART 5: Pre season tales (41m 30s) TFS LI...

Jul 18, 201950 min

A mixed record against the canine community

RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Scatman John (00m 50s) • PART 1b: Arsenal under the Kosc - with Charles Watts from Goal (02m 50s) • PART 2: From bad to worse at Newcastle (14m 00s) • PART 3: Griezmann moves, Crouchy retires and Sturridge gets his dog back (18m 40s) • PART 4a: Afcon update - with Mani Djazmi (26m 00s) • PART 4b: Haddaway (33m 00s) TFS LIVE AT THE SOUTHBANK CENTRE - MON 30 SEPT 2019: Get your tickets now! (https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/136322-totally-football-show-live-jame...

Jul 15, 201940 min

Zonal Marking: Bayern's treble winners

The Totally Football Show brings you this summer series to coincide with the release of Zonal Marking, a book written by Michael Cox. Each week, Michael and Iain Macintosh will be joined by a familiar face from the Totally Football Show, to take a look at a classic side from the last 25 years of European football. In the final episode, Rafa Honigstein analyses Bayern's treble winners of 2013, who put their near misses in 2010 and 2012 behind them in spectacular style. Thanks to Robben, Ribery an...

Jul 11, 201934 min

The Tangena ordeal

RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Greece or Blackpool? (00m 40s) • PART 1b: Women’s World Cup wrap up - with Kait Borsay from the Offside Rule (02m 10s) • PART 2: Frank Lampard finally joins Chelsea - with Matt Davies-Adams (13m 30s) • PART 3: Transfer news: Rodri, Griezmann, Ayoze, Pogba and Maxi Gomez (22m 30s) • PART 3a: Football Hackers (24m 40s) • PART 4a: Afcon update and Madagascan facts (33m 00s) • PART 4b: Mexico win the Gold Cup (36m 00s) • PART 4c: Messi’s red card and Brazil win the Copa - w...

Jul 08, 201949 min

Zonal Marking: Spain’s tournament trilogy

The Totally Football Show brings you this summer series to coincide with the release of Zonal Marking, a book written by Michael Cox. Each week, Michael and Iain Macintosh will be joined by a familiar face from the Totally Football Show, to take a look at a classic side from the last 25 years of European football. In episode 5, Alvaro Romeo joins us to remember Spain shedding their tag of serial bottlers. They won three major tournaments in a row, with or without a striker, monopolising silverwa...

Jul 04, 201937 min

Football Hackers

Tom Williams talks to the German football writer Christoph Bierman about his latest book, Football Hackers - all about the increasing role of data and metrics in modern day coaching and tactics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 03, 201924 min

A PR kid called Jez

RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Tottenham do a signing! The lowdown on Clarke and Ndombele (01m 40s) • PART 1b: Zaha prepares to say ta-ta to Palace - but can Arsenal afford him? (07m 40s) • PART 2a: Bronze, White and goalscoring colours (13m 40s) • PART 2b: East Midlands manager watch - with Nick Miller (15m 20s) • PART 3a: Football Hackers (24m 40s) • PART 3b: Madagascar, Egypt’s Amr Warda and more news from Afcon (27m 00s) • PART 3c: Gold Cup and Copa America news (36m 00s) • PART 4a: Milan kicked ...

Jul 01, 201954 min

Zonal Marking: Mourinho's Porto

The Totally Football Show brings you this summer series to coincide with the release of Zonal Marking, a book written by Michael Cox. Each week, Michael and Iain Macintosh will be joined by a familiar face from the Totally Football Show, to take a look at a classic side from the last 25 years of European football. In episode 4, Tom Williams is back to review perhaps the biggest underdog winners in Champions League history - Porto in 2004. We go back to a time when Jose Mourinho was charismatic a...

Jun 27, 201935 min

Not the low maintenance option

RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Gentle sports touches (01m 40s) • PART 1b: Benitez and Newcastle are no more (04m 00s) • PART 2a: Neymar to leave PSG and return to Barcelona? (10m 00s) • PART 2b: Platini in the dock (17m 00s) • PART 3a: Women’s World Cup update (22 30s) • PART 3b: Copa America update - with Jack Lang (30m 20s) • PART 3c: In which we open some more Panini stickers (34m 30s) • PART 3d: Manager moves and transfer talk - with Nick Miller (36m 40s) • PART 4a: England collapse at the U21 Eu...

Jun 24, 201958 min

Zonal Marking: France at Euro 2000

The Totally Football Show brings you a six-part summer series to coincide with the release of Zonal Marking, a book written by Michael Cox. Each week, Michael and Iain Macintosh will be joined by a familiar face from the Totally Football Show, to take a look at a classic side from the last 25 years of European football. For episode 3, we're joined by special guest Julien Laurens to discuss France’s victory at Euro 2000. Where Roger Lemerre somehow managed to fill the void left by Stéphane Guivar...

Jun 20, 201933 min

The secret sauce

RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: A new challenge for Pogba? (01m 40s) • PART 2a: Sarri in at Juve, Frank in at Chelsea? (08m 40s) • PART 2b: Woodgate at Boro, Bilic at WBA and other managerial moves - with Nick Miller (17m 40s) • PART 3a: In which we open some Panini stickers (25m 40s) • PART 3b: Jack Lang on the start of the Copa America (28m 40s) • PART 3c: A word on The Offside Rule: Women’s World Cup Edition - only on Spotify (35m 20s) • PART 3d: The Euro U21s - with Daniel Storey (37m 00s) • PART 4...

Jun 17, 201956 min

Zonal Marking: Juventus in the late 90s

The Totally Football Show brings you a six-part summer series to coincide with the release of Zonal Marking, a book written by Michael Cox. Each week, Michael and Iain Macintosh will be joined by a familiar face from the Totally Football Show, to take a look at a classic side from the last 25 years of European football. In our second episode, we're joined by special guest James Horncastle to discuss the team that provided the inspiration for his hairstyle and the team that gave Gary Neville nigh...

Jun 13, 201937 min

Further adventures in Maradonaland

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Jun 10, 201942 min

Zonal Marking: Ajax 94/95

The Totally Football Show brings you a six-part summer series to coincide with the release of Zonal Marking, a book written by Michael Cox. Each week, Michael and Iain Macintosh will be joined by a familiar face from the Totally Football Show, to take a look at a classic side from the last 25 years of European football. In our first episode, we're joined by special guest Tom Williams to discuss the 1995 Champions League winners - Louis Van Gaal's Ajax. Featuring a future Barnet boss, a future Ip...

Jun 06, 201933 min

Level 42

RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Liverpool 2-0 Spurs in the CL final (01m 10s) • PART 2a: Why was this such a bad final? (06m 30s) • PART 2b: The road ahead for Spurs (16m 30s) • PART 3: Penalties, hot coals and streakers (19m 40s) • PART 4: Nations League, Women’s World Cup - our Totally Football summer, only on Spotify, but still totally free (26m 00s) • PART 5: The odds with Paddy Power’s Lee Price (29m 00s) • PART 6: Sarri to Juve, Italian net-minders and model railways (30m 40s) LISTEN TO THE TOTAL...

Jun 02, 201941 min

Lazy scapegoating

RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Chelsea win the Europa League (01m 10s) • PART 1b: Ozil and Rob Green (07m 00s) • PART 1c: Hazard and Sarri (13m 30s) • PART 2: Champions League final preview! (20m 00s) • PART 3: Villa back in the PL and more from the playoffs (33m 30s) • PART 4a: Union Berlin, the return of AVB and more news from around Europe (39m 00s) • PART 4b: Mega Serie A chat (43m 30s) • PART 5: The odds with Paddy Power’s Lee Price (55m 40s) • PART 6: A mega summer of football - and two news sh...

May 30, 20191 hr 6 min

Pantheon

Rafa Honigstein, Emma Saunders and Daniel Storey join Iain Macintosh to relive the FA Cup final and assess City’s historic treble. Plus: Bayern wrap up the Bundesliga; Derby’s bar bill; and who will replace Max Allegri at Juventus? RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: City 6 - 0 Watford (01m 10s) • PART 1b: City’s place in the pantheon and is football broken? (04m 40s) • PART 2: An ode to Vincent Kompany (14m 00s) • PART 3a: Bayern wrap up the Bundesliga (22m 40s) • PART 3b: Where next for Gareth Bale? (27...

May 20, 20191 hr 2 min

That's real dominion

It's Matt Davies-Adams in the hotseat this week but fear not because we have James Horncastle, Daniel Storey, and Michael Cox in tow to break down that final day of the Premier League. We discuss the Solskjær effect, Sauce FC, and Serene Spurs. Plus a look back on the Europa League semi finals, a look ahead to the FA Cup Final, and the sacking of Chris Hughton. RUNNING ORDER: * PART 1a: A Horny Cox Storey (00m 40s) * PART 2a: Mahrez seals the deal and events at Anfield (02m 30s) * PART 2b: Hught...

May 13, 20191 hr 9 min

Things are happening

After the most incredible midweek of football that reduced many to tears, Jimbo is joined by Duncan Alexander, Natalie Gedra and Alvaro Romeo to discuss the greatest comeback in Champions League history. And then again. Plus: the Premier League title race nears its conclusion, the greatest ever promoted teams and what happens to league structures when clubs go out of business. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Football, bloody hell (01m 00s) • PART 1b: Ajax 2-3 Spurs (04m 00s) • PART 2: Liverpool 4-0 Ba...

May 09, 201958 min

So fresh, so clean

Jimbo, James Horncastle, Sasha Goryunov and Michael Cox bring you a Monday late night special, reacting to Manchester City’s win over Leicester, and Vincent Kompany’s screamer, that puts Pep’s men on the brink of the Premier League title. We also look ahead to the Champions League and Europa League semi-finals. Plus there’s piers in Bournemouth, poor sportsmanship in Plymouth and Brexit in Fylde . RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Manchester City 1-0 Leicester (01m 00s) • PART 2a: Liverpool v Barcelona ...

May 07, 20191 hr 2 min

Potting boots

Jimbo, Duncan Alexander, Julien Laurens and Michael Cox look back on a Messi night for Klopp and co and another Ajax Champions League triumph. Plus: sound the former Liverpool mangers klaxon; the match older than football itself; and the etymology of squeaky bum time RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Barcelona 3 - 0 Liverpool (02m 00s) • PART 1b: Spurs 0 - 1 Ajax (12m 10s) • PART 2a: Liverpool v Newcastle and City v Leicester previews (21m 20s) • PART 2b: Stumbling to the Top 4 (27m 40s) • PART 2c: The ...

May 02, 20191 hr 1 min

Cheese watching

Jimbo, Daniel Storey, Tom Williams and Jack Lang look ahead to Liverpool’s trip to Barcelona and a patched-up Tottenham’s game with Ajax in the Champions League semi-finals. Plus: De Gea in pieces; Antonio’s air hump; and Frankfurt with extra mustard RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: United 1 - 1 Chelsea (02m 10s) • PART 1b: Liverpool and City keep on keeping’ on (09m 10s) • PART 2a: Spurs v Ajax preview - with Yordi Yamali (16m 20s) • PART 2b: Barca v Liverpool preview (25m 10s) • PART 2c: Arsenal v Va...

Apr 29, 20191 hr 4 min

End game

Jimbo gets up close and personal with Carl Anka, Duncan Alexander and Daniel Storey to discuss the one-sided Manchester derby and whether this is now the end of the title race. Plus: the most spaced-out goals in PL history; Flip Reversing Didier Drogba in the 2012 Champions League final; and Sven to Scotland? RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: City a class above United (01m 00s) • PART 1b: Burnley v City glimmers of hope for Liverpool (11m 30s) • PART 2a: United v Chelsea preview (13m 30s) • PART 2b: Sve...

Apr 25, 20191 hr 4 min

A bottom half powerhouse

Jimbo, James Horncastle, Michael Cox and Jack Lang pore over Everton’s ruthless demolition of Man United and look ahead to a (possibly) equally embarrassing Manchester derby. Plus: footballers you’ve forgotten about; why Fulham should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves; and the PFA player of the year lists RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Our Easter XI (01m 00s) • PART 2a: Everton 4 - 0 United (02m 30s) • PART 2b: City 1 -0 Spurs and the Manchester derby (12m 00s) • PART 2c: A final word on Marco Silva...

Apr 22, 201959 min

Cagey for the first three minutes

Jimbo, Pat Nevin, Duncan Alexander and Alvaro Romeo catch their breath and relive that incredible battle between City and Spurs at the Etihad. Plus: reasons to smile about Ajax; the xG-iest game of all time; and whither Alex McLeish RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: The story of City 4 - 3 Spurs (02m 00s) • PART 2a: City v Spurs redux (22m 00s) • PART 2b: Ajax light up the CL again - with Michiel Jongsma (24m 30s) • PART 2c: A word on Ronaldo (30m 50s) • PART 2d: Barcelona do United with Liverpool next (...

Apr 18, 20191 hr 14 min

Tired of sunny truisms

Jimbo, Michael Cox, Ian Irving and Daniel Storey talk about the tightest of title races and Champions League second legs. Plus, Brighton’s race to the bottom; yet more Drake curses; and a wood-related XI RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Liverpool 2 - 0 Chelsea (01m 40s) • PART 1b: Palace 1 - 3 City (10m 40s) • PART 2a: City v Spurs go again in the CL (14m 50s) • PART 2b: Can United to an Ole at Camp Nou? (19m 20s) • PART 2c: Liverpool back at the Dragao (25m 00s) • PART 2d: Juve v Ajax redux (27m 30) •...

Apr 15, 20191 hr 6 min

Guilty secrets

Jimbo, James Horncastle, Matt Davies-Adams and Tom Williams talk about Tottenham’s Champions League triumph and look ahead to Liverpool v Chelsea and Palace v City. Plus: Rafa Honigstein on the Bundesliga title race, Dutch crooning, and more on the Drake Curse RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Spurs 1 - 0 City - another Pep Euro brain fart? (02m 00s) • PART 1b: Liverpool 2 - 0 Porto - Klopp’s new midfield alchemy (11m 50s) • PART 1c: United 0 - 1 Barcelona (13m 40s) • PART 1d: Ajax 1 - 1 Juve and some R...

Apr 11, 20191 hr 2 min

A scheduling dilemma for Elton John

Jimbo is joined by Natalie Gedra, Daniel Storey and Michael Cox to relive Watford’s FA Cup comeback and look ahead to a huge week for City, Spurs, Liverpool and United in the Champions League. Plus: bucket list fixtures; ‘joy in the legs’, and memories of Rory Delap RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Watford 3 - 2 Wolves - with Emma Saunders (01m 30s) • PART 1b: City 1 - 0 Brighton (12m 10s) • PART 1c: City v Spurs Champions League preview (16m 00s) • PART 2a: Liverpool back on top of the PL (20m 20s) • ...

Apr 08, 20191 hr 2 min