Christmas Football

Jimbo is joined by Charlie Eccleshare, Duncan Alexander and Daniel Storey for a Totally Extra festive football special. The panel discuss Boxing Day football, the Victorian tradition of playing during the workers' time off which has provided some classic days of football over the years, from the 66 goals in 1963 to Phil Brown's on-pitch team talk in 2008. They also discuss Christmas-time managerial sackings, including Jose Mourinho's Dad and posit purposeful Christmas cards for players trying to get time off. Plus a Christmas-themed quiz and your questions. Produced by Charlie Jones and Jesse Howard. • PART 1a: Your Christmas Football questions (00.40) • PART 1b: The Criz’ Quiz question (06.59) • PART 1c: The Totally Extra Almanac (10.02) • PART 2: Boxing Day Football through the years (12.45) • PART 3: Man City v Hull Boxing Day 2008 (30.00) • PART 4a: Yuletime sackings (36.25) • PART 4b: Christmas cards (40.30) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ex Leeds star Aidy White joins us to reminisce on football during Christmases gone by. Including that glorious day over the Pennines in 2010... EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ nordvpn.com/tsb · Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We have both sides of the divide on Saturday at Selhurst Park – Liverpool run riot over Crystal Palace winning 7-0. Can anyone keep pace or are the champions about to disappear into the distance? Man United hammer Leeds 6-2 at Old Trafford, in a game that almost has pundits waxing lyrical about the losers more than the winners. But given United’s squad depth, are they viable title contenders? Are Arsenal in a relegation fight? What makes them so painful to watch and so easy to ply against? Plus we take a look at football’s Christmas history. And how Fulham are channelling 80s Juventus. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: West Brom 0-3 Aston Villa (01m 00s) • PART 2a: Man Utd 6-2 Leeds (06m 30s) • PART 2b: Tottenham 0-2 Leicester (16m 00s) • PART 2c: Brighton 1-1 Sheff Utd (21m 00s) • PART 3a: Crystal Palace 0-7 Liverpool (26m 30s) • PART 3b: The rest of the Premier League weekend (36m 00s) • PART 4: Christmas football + the League Cup quarter-finals (50m 00s) • PART 5: The odds with Lee Price from Paddy Power (61m 00s) • PART 6: Flip Reverse competition (62m 30s) SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC AND GET ANOTHER SUBSCRIPTION FREE: • theathletic.com/totally GET IN TOUCH: • follow us on Instagram • find us on Facebook • send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow PARISH NOTICES: • we’re sponsored by Paddy Power - home of the Money Back Special • for this week's partnership go to www.virginwines.co.uk/theathletic READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE: • check out thetotallyfootballshow.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.