The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

03/04 was the making of Mourinho on the world stage and the unravelling of Ranieri at Chelsea. We look back at a campaign that featured a goal-crazy Monaco side, one of Arsenal’s great European nights and Milan’s biggest bottle job. For 12 months at least. In the modern day, everyone’s gearing up to play football. So why not the French? Did Macron have Marseille-based motives? And it’s the showdow...

The last Premier League season of the century. A time when Roy Keane was player of the year and Phillips and Bridges were banging in them in. The Dons met their Premier League demise while Di Canio scored one of the division’s all-time great goals. Today’s Premier League has been given the green light to restart. And with no positive coronavirus tests in the latest round, are we optimistic that we...

The 2002-03 Champions League campaign saw Serie A come roaring back after a few seasons out of the spotlight. Carlo Ancelotti claimed his first Champions League trophy against his old club Juventus. But is it the worst Champions League final ever? Featuring the most illegal penalty saves ever? The season also provided heroics from Newcastle, Nedved and a standing ovation for Ronaldo at Old Traffor...

98/99 brought us the highest quality of title races, John Gregory’s big mouth, and Van Hooijdonk and Di Canio behaving badly. We look back at the second week of Bundesliga action since its return, where home advantage seems to be eradicated. Rafa Honigstein joins us to preview Der Klassiker between the top two. Could a Dortmund defeat lead to a mass exodus for the club’s many stars? And Michael Co...

The 01/02 campaign saw Real Madrid win their 9th European Cup at the expense of Bayer Leverkusen, who knocked out all three English clubs on the way to the final. It was the first season of Xavi at Barca and Zidane at Real. When we were mad on metatarsals and Las Ketchup, and Hoeness was hunting down HonigsteinToday’s Bundesliga is back up and running. Will 2020’s Leverkusen serve up another goal-...

The panel look back at the 97/98 season. Home to one of the best individual performances of the Premier League era. And the most bizarre managerial unveiling of the Premier League era. Arsenal do the double, Lombardo becomes Palace boss and Kenny Dalglish takes on Paxman on Newsnight. The Bundesliga is back with Dortmund and Bayern back to winning ways. But did it work as a spectacle? Rafa Honigst...

The panel look back at Bayern’s first European Cup win in 25 years. It was the final with all the penalties, so naturally the Germans won it. Featuring Oliver Kahn at his peak, bad boy Stefan Effenberg, and the ludicrously decorated Bixente Lizarazu. And it was the last great ride for Leeds, who managed to squeeze two Champions League campaigns into one. The Bundesliga is back as we examine the pr...

Back in 1996/97, there was an Italian influx, Manchester United were the worst champions ever and Leeds experienced peak George Graham. Plus there was Arsene Wenger, Ali Dia, Calamity James, Peter Reid’s potty mouth and Kevin Keegan’s farewell. Also on the podcast, Matt takes us through the return of the K-League, where fake crowd noise and former Boro strikers in their forties are all the rage. R...

The Champions League season at the turn of the century was lit up by Batistuta’s Fiorentina, Mihajlovic’s Lazio and Flo’s Chelsea. The whole thing was won by Redondo’s Real, who were victorious in the all-Spanish final against Valencia in Paris. But what really happened with Nicolas Anelka during his year in Madrid? In the modern day, football is coming back! Rafa Honigstein brings developments fr...

The 94/95 season saw Shearer and Sutton fire Blackburn to their first title in 81 years. And Forest finished 3rd! The panel look back on a game-changing campaign for the Premier League, as a combination of Klinsmann and controversy take the division global. The bad boys of the Inter Totally Cup meet for a semi-final place as James Horncastle and Jack Lang quiz off. Plus we discuss the most infuria...

98/99 is defined by Man United’s treble success. We force Rafa to relive the United Bayern final - the substitutions that went right and the substitutions that went wrong. It’s a campaign also featuring Arsenal at Wembley, the inexperienced Carlo Ancelotti and the Pat Nevin of Germany. We’ve got another huge quarter-final in the Inter Totally Cup as Daniel Storey takes on Julien Laurens. RUNNING O...

United’s second season in the Premier League wasn’t so difficult as they crushed all opposition in 93/94. Were they better than the United side of 98/99?Plus we bask in the beauty of Cole and Le Tissier and recoil in horror at Swindon and Grobbelaar. In the modern day, Rafa Honigstein joins us to explain the rationale behind Bundesliga plans to restart the season in May. And it’s the first quarter...

Jupp Heynckes’s Real, thanks to the heroics of Predrag Mijatovic and Christian Karembeu, turned over Juve in the final, at the end of a scintillating campaign showcasing Shevchenko, Trezeguet and Asprilla. The panel get into a heated debate over their favourite football ads of all time. Are you an airport person, a cage person or a write the future person? Plus the final last 16 tie of the Inter T...

The 2011/12 Premier League campaign saw Manchester City pip rivals United to the title on goal difference on the last day. You might remember how it ended. But do you remember it was Alan Pardew’s best season in management? Or Paul Scholes coming out of retirement mid-season? Or that Blackburn chicken ad? Plus Carl Anka and Sasha Goryunov battle it out in the penultimate last 16 tie in the Inter T...

The panel travel back to 96/97 when Dortmund and Schalke did a European double. Dortmund’s only Champions League success powered by Sammer, Ricken and Paul Lambert. Duncan invites us into a wonderful world where Gazza scores against Germany at Euro 96. And Fergie’s plans go to pot. Jack Lang and Emma Saunders raise the bar in the Inter Totally Cup. And is Mike Ashley actually leaving Newcastle? RU...

Roman Abramovich arrived in England but nobody could beat Arsenal in the Premier League in 03/04. Do they – or indeed Thierry Henry – get enough love? This is the year that the Premier League lost Leeds, while Cristiano Ronaldo began his Manchester United career with a few too many lollipops. Elsewhere, it’s France v Brazil as Julien Laurens takes on Natalie Gedra in the Inter Totally Cup. And Ror...

We travel back in time to the 95/96 season of the Champions League which gives us a chance to rave about Raul. It was a disastrous campaign for Blackburn and a watershed moment for Juventus and Ajax. Flicks and Kicks returns with our review of A Shot At Glory, a film where Ally McCoist steals the show from Robert Duvall and Michael Keaton. Rafa Honigstein and Daniel Storey go head-to-head in a hum...

Today, the panel look back to 92-93, the very first Premier League campaign that saw Manchester United’s dominance commence and Clough’s last knockings at Nottingham Forest. We discuss Norwich as the original entertainers, Oldham as the original escapologists and the most influential team performance of the Premier League era. In the modern day, Liverpool, Tottenham and Newcastle are furloughing t...

Flicks and Kicks sees the team review United Passions – the FIFA-funded film about FIFA with Tim Roth starring as Saint Sepp Blatter. With Kane’s future up in the air, we flip reverse to a world where Birmingham were successful in buying Bale from Spurs. In the second match-up of our Totally quiz, Lynsey Hooper goes head to head with Pat Nevin for a place in the quarter-finals. Plus we discuss cel...

PSG had a team to drool over, Milan were permanent fixtures in the final. But 94/95 was arguably Louis Van Gaal’s finest season as a manager, leading his Ajax starlets to Champions League glory. Although Jari Litmanen was robbed of the Ballon D’Or. It’s the whole story of the campaign. From Gothenburg to Gary Walsh. In the modern day, there’s contract reshuffles at Barca, Bayern and Juve. And Benz...

The 04/05 season saw Chelsea end Arsenal and United’s dominance of English football, plus the greatest relegation battle ever. Also big that season - David Prutton, Frank Burrows and David James up front. Rory Smith is back to hold our hand in this football-less world. And it’s round 1 of our Totally World Cup quiz. Duncan Alexander versus Alvaro Romeo. RUNNING ORDER• PART 1: Rory Smith on seasons...

Today we take on the film Escape To Victory, where football and POW camps collide. Starring Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Pele, John Wark and that bloke from The Vicar of Dibley. Duncan Alexander constructs a reality where Roman Abramovich didn’t buy Chelsea – but Arsenal instead! Plus there’s George Weah’s new single, footballer’s weddings and a mouth-watering first round draw. RUNNING ORDER...

The panel look back at the 93-94 Champions League, a place in which was turned down by PSG!Featuring Capello’s Milan, Cruyff’s Barcelona, Wenger’s Monaco. And Manchester United’s trip to hell. Plus the goalscoring exploits of Wynton Rufer. RUNNING ORDER:  • PART 1: Headlines around Europe – eGames and Neymar to Barca? (01m 00s) • PART 2: Your questions – Borussia beef and Bilbao’s best (09m 30s)•...

Keegan’s entertainers up against Fergie’s fledglings. We review one of the great title races in a campaign where English clubs were rubbish in Europe. Except for Forest. Featuring some all-time great soundbites, relegation through a lack of social media and the most underrated Premier League player of all time. Elsewhere, we’ve got footballing mums and the mother of all goals. RUNNING ORDER• PART...

Rory Smith is back to bring us an update on the latest moves within UEFA, as to how to salvage the season. On the agenda today, we offer up a Ronaldinho retrospective, with the brilliant Brazilian currently in Paraguyan prison. Plus we review Green Street, where Frodo does football fighting and Charlie Hunnam attempts a cockney accent. And there’s room for Eurovision and Glauber Berti the six-minu...