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Harry Kane talking about England being aggressive, Russia looking to defy their critics, the “hench brutes” of Uruguay, Panama’s hats, Big Herve Renard back where he belongs, Brazil egging Phillipe Coutinho! Mitro on fire! Stickers! It’s almost here! It’s almost the World Cup! This show is sponsored by bet365 Search ‘Football Ramble’ on social media to find us, and email us here: [email protected] ***Please take the time to rate and review us on iTunes or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Further reading Spain sack Julen Lopetegui: http://www.skysports.com/football/news/12024/11403215/julen-lopetegui-has-been-sacked-by-spain Harry Kane makes the right noises: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/11/harry-kane-england-world-cup-2018-aggressive-brave Why are Russia so bad? https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/world-cup-2018-russia-team-news-squad-saudi-arabia-russian-premier-league-vladimir-putin-a8395226.html The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup. No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gary talks to a group of coaches with an incredible range of experiences and views on the game. Craig Harrington (former Turks & Caicos Head Coach), Erwin van Bennekom (Duke Women's Soccer Coach), Jose Maria Bakero (Barcelona and Spain player) and Dan Micchiche (England U-16 Coach) discuss how they would prepare their team, choose their staffs, prevent boredom, and tell us what to expect from the tournament tactically.

Jimbo’s joined in the pod by Michael Cox, Tom Williams, Sasha Goryunov and a host of other international guests too to tell you everything you need to know about how the likes of France, Spain, Portugal, Egypt, Peru, Morocco and the hosts will fare in RussiaRUNNING ORDER:• PART 1a: World Cup Fever, World Cup predictions (01m 50s)• PART 1b: Group A: Uruguay - a last hurrah for Suarez, Cavani and co? (05m 00s) • PART 1c: Group A: Egypt - King Salah and more with Bassil Mikdadi (11m 00s)• PART 1d: Group A: Russia - “beyond appalling” (18m 20s)• PART 1e: Group A: Saudi Arabia - even worse than Russia? (24m 20s)• PART 2a: Group B: Morocco - the most underrated team at the tournament? (27m 10s)• PART 2b: Portugal - going backwards since Euro 2016? (31m 50s)• PART 3c: Iran -a tough nut to crack (34m 00s)• PART 3d: Group B: Spain - back to their best? (36m 30s)• PART 4a: Group C: Peru - a great story, an even better kit (42m 40s)• PART 4b: Group C: Australia - Tim Cahill bids to do a Pele (45m 50s)• PART 4c: Group C: Denmark - big things expected from Christian Eriksen (47m 10s)• PART 4d: Group C: France - so much talent, but can they function as a coherent XI? (49m 40s)• PART 5: World Cup odds with Paddy Power’s Lee Price (56m 30s)• PART 6: Exeunt omnes (58m 10s)PARISH NOTICES:• we're sponsored by [**Paddy Power** - home of the Money Back Special](http://www.paddypower.com/)• get your trial shaving set from [**Harry’s** for just £3.95](http://www.harrys.com/totallyfootball)GET IN TOUCH:• [find us on **Facebook**](https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/) - home of the Totally Football Quiz which will be back at half time during every England group game• send us a **[tweet: @TheTotallyShow](http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow)** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jimbo has Michael Cox, Duncan Alexander (Opta) and David Preece for company to look back on the final weekend in the Premier League and gaze ahead to the Europa League final. Plus, a selection of favourite footballing injuriesRUNNING ORDER:• PART 1a: Duncan Alexander’s stats o' the season - featuring a lot of Man City and a bit of Mo Salah (01m 20s)• PART 1b: Chelsea blow it; Arsene bows out; Mou’s left all alone; Swans down (05m 30s) • PART 1c: Spurs 5 - 4 Leicester and the rest of the final PL weekend (12m 20s)• PART 1d: All hail, Lewis Dunk and doing an Egil Østenstad (16m 50s)• PART 2a: Championship playoffs; Brackley Town; and Tranmere’s return (20m 00s )• PART 2b: The best football injuries - featuring mostly goalkeepers (24m 50s) • PART 3a: A word from Spain with Alvaro Romeo (32m 20s)• PART 3b: More Europa League final chat and Mr Pamela Anderson (36m 30s)• PART 4a: Au revoir, Les Herbiers; B teams; (40m 40s)• PART 4b: Bundesliga and Serie A round-ups (43m 40s)• PART 4c: Duncan Alexander's miscellany (46m 30s)• PART 5: Paddy Power’s Movers and Shakers with Lee Price (47m 30s)• PART 6: Model railways and exeunt omnes (49m 40s)CHARITY NEWS:It's mental health awareness week - and we’re working with **CALM**, the Campaign Against Living Miserably, who are dedicated to preventing male suicide. [Find out more](https://www.thecalmzone.net/).PARISH NOTICES:• join [**Paddy Power’s Rewards Club**](http://www.paddypower.com/) - home of the Money Back Special• get your shave on with our friends [**Cornerstone**, who are giving you £10 off your first order](https://www.cornerstone.co.uk/totally)GET IN TOUCH:• find us on **Facebook** • send us a [tweet: **@TheTotallyShow**](http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Caroline Barker is in the Totally Football Show hot-seat and she’s joined by Michael Cox, Matt Davies (Chelsea TV), Ian Irving (PL TV) and Emma Saunders (BBC and Watford TV) to talk about Wenger’s lovely vase, the Premier League relegation battle, and the news from around EuropeRUNNING ORDER:• PART 1a: United 2 - 1 Arsenal; can Arsenal win away in Madrid? (02m 30s)• PART 1b: Time to big up Burnley and Sean Dyche (09m 00s)• PART 2a: Palace 5 - 0 Leicester (15m 30s)• PART 2b: The West Brom turnaround; the Huddersfield slide; the Saints upward march? (21m 30s )• PART 2c: West Ham 1 - 4 City and the rest of the relegation picture (29m 10s) • PART 3: CL semi-final previews (33m 30s)• PART 4a: Championship news - Fulham flying; silver linings for Sunderland (38m 10s)• PART 4b: A short word on wrestling and how it relates to WC 2020 (42m 00s)• PART 5a: Napoli blow it in the Serie A title race (43m 40s)• PART 5b: Steven Gerrard to Rangers? (46m 00s)• PART 5c: Spain, France and Switzerland round-ups (47m 00s)• PART 6: Paddy Power’s Movers and Shakers with Lee Price (51m 00s)• PART 7: Your questions and adios (53m 20s)CHARITY NEWS:Join us in supporting [**MacMillan's Say The Word campaign**](https://www.macmillan.org.uk/about-us/working-with-us/corporate-partners/construction-cancer-coalition.html) to get men talking about cancer PARISH NOTICES:• join [**Paddy Power’s Rewards Club**](http://www.paddypower.com/) - home of the Money Back Special• combine your knowledge of the footy with your knowledge of the FTSE at [**Football Index**](www.footballindex.co.uk). Enter the offer code TOTALLY to trade up to £1000 risk free. T&Cs apply• get your shave on with our [friends **Cornerstone**, who are giving you £10 off your first order](https://www.cornerstone.co.uk/totally)GET IN TOUCH:• find us on [**Facebook** - home of the Totally Football Quiz every Friday at 1230 GMT](https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/)• send us a **[tweet: @TheTotallyShow](http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow)** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Premier League returns this weekend and Jimbo, Michael Cox, James Horncastle and Tom Williams preview potentially the biggest game of the season as Spurs look to win at Stamford Bridge for the first time since 1990\. Plus, a lessons learned from the international break, Hollywood fans, and more footballing idiomsRUNNING ORDER:• PART 1a: Spain 6 - 1 Argentina (03m 00s)• PART 1b: Russia 1 - 3 France (07m 10s) • PART 1c: Dark horses - Uruguay, Belgium and Portugal (08m 30s)• PART 2: Conclusions from England’s international break (12m 20s)• PART 3a: Chelsea v Spurs preview - the biggest game of the season? (17m 50s) • PART 3b: Palace v Liverpool preview (23m 20s)• PART 3c: West Ham v Southampton preview (28m 40s) • PART 4a: Middle Eastern football phrases (32m 50s)• PART 4b: A huge weekend in Serie A, plus Germany and France round-ups (36m 00s)• PART 4c: Phishing and prison news (42m 20s) • PART 5: Oprah Winfrey, Russell Crowe, Kelsey Grammar and the rest of the PL weekend (45m 30s) • PART 6: Paddy Power’s Movers & Shakers with Lee Price (54m 20s) • PART 7: Adios and Parts Unknown trail (56m 50s) PARISH NOTICES:• join [**Paddy Power’s Rewards Club**](http://www.paddypower.com/) - home of the Money Back Special• get your shave on with [our friends **Cornerstone**, who are giving you £10 off your first orde](https://www.cornerstone.co.uk/totally)r • [football + intellectualism = **The Game of Our Lives** podcast](https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/game-of-our-lives/id1353981875?mt=2)GET IN TOUCH:• find us on [**Facebook**, - home of the Totally Football Quiz every Friday at 1230 GMT](https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/) (but not this Friday - it's Easter)• send us a **[tweet: @TheTotallyShow](http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow)** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jimbo is joined for this Totally Football Show by Rafa Honigstein, Julien Laurens and Opta’s Duncan Alexander to do some serious World Cup number crunching, discuss Zlatan’s arrival in LA and memories of Brazil’s 7-1 humiliation.RUNNING ORDER:• PART 1a: Germany 1 - 1 Spain (02m 50s)• PART 1b: France 2 - 3 Colombia; anyone but Deschamps (06m 10s)• PART 1c: England’s steady progress continues (09m 50s)• PART 2: Where is Thomas Tuchel heading this summer and other questions (17m 20s)• PART 3a: George Qraishi on Zlatan’s arrival in LA; MLS catch-up (26m 20s)• PART 3b: World Cup number crunching (35m 00s)• PART 4: Memories of Brazil 1 - 7 Germany, 8 July 2014 (41m 40s)• PART 5: Paddy Power’s Movers & Shakers with Lee Price (57m 50s)• PART 6: Adios (60m 00s) PARISH NOTICES:• join [**Paddy Power’s Rewards Club**](http://www.paddypower.com/) - home of the Money Back Special• get your shave on with our friends [**Cornerstone**, who are giving you £10 off your first order](https://www.cornerstone.co.uk/totally)• combine your knowledge of the footy with your knowledge of the FTSE at [**Football Index**](http://www.footballindex.co.uk/). Enter the offer code TOTALLY to trade up to £1000 risk free. T&Cs applyGET IN TOUCH:• find us on [**Facebook**, - home of the Totally Football Quiz every Friday at 1230 GMT](https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/)• send us a [tweet: **@TheTotallyShow**](http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The World Cup is coming up and we are ramping up. Early previews of England, Brazil and Spain right in your international earholes. We are, again, foolishly England-curious and perhaps also foolishly Iniesta-dismissive.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport the show

Richard E Grant, Starbucks, “adult“ Froobs… it’s international week so things get weird quickly! We discuss England’s goalkeeping situation and nutrition plans, there's a birthday wished for a Ramble (Speller) favourite and musings on Spain’s twin defensive totem poles. On top of all that we learn of Ronaldinho’s political misunderstandings, Gareth Bale breaks records and we hear your suggestions for how to improve international football. Samba do good crazy! This show is sponsored by bet365 Search ‘Football Ramble’ on social media to find us, and email us here: [email protected] Further reading: The Panama Grandma explained: https://www.si.com/soccer/2017/10/17/pitch-invading-granny-discusses-why-she-took-panamas-world-cup-qualification-her-own-hands Germany’s strength in depth: https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/how-germany-could-look-at-the-2018-world-cup-in-russia-447224.jsp Ronaldo on his hair at the 2002 World Cup: http://www.goal.com/en/news/brazil-legend-ronaldo-reveals-reason-behind-famous-2002/6j0s0ux1s8ny167exv54tzrss The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup. No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Efrain Juarez and David Norman Jr interviews, plus the week's Vancouver Whitecaps and MLS news. Also Stefan Marinovic talks take out food and does David Edgar fancy a chocolate digestive? Plus Morrissey features in this week's Wavelength section.

On today’s super soaraway Totally Football Show, James Richardson is joined by Michael Cox, Football 365’s Daniel Storey and - making his debut - the New York Times’ Rory Smith. Here’s what the gang are chewing overRUNNING ORDER:• PART 1: League Cup look back; Bristol City love; Liverpool v City preview (02m 40s)• PART 2: Transfer news; Cenk Tosun; Tottenham v Everton; Spain’s answer to Pulisball (11m 55s)• PART 3: Chelsea v Leicester; Iwobi’s ‘unacceptable’ partying; (25m 25s)• PART 4: AVB out of the Dakar Rally; Shrewbury/Shroosbury; the Rooney Rule; the darts at Frimley Green; sporting nicknames (32m 5 0s)• PART 5: reviewing VAR’s first week; touchline bans; more PL previews; poor Renato Sanches (43m 05s)• PART 6: Paddy Power’s Hotshot Jackpot (57m 20s)• PART 7: Adios and the answer to Jimbo’s teaser (61m 00s)LIVE NEWS:• we’ll be at Vicar Street in Dublin on Monday 19 March 2018, which is quite the way to come down from St Patrick’s Day. [Get your tickets here.](http://bit.ly/2BolTDV)PARISH NOTICES:• join [Paddy Power’s Rewards Club](http://www.paddypower.com/)• start trading at the [Football Index](https://trade.footballindex.co.uk/). Get started with £1000 with the promo code TOTALLY• get your shave on with our friends **Cornerstone**, who are giving you [£10 off your first order](https://www.cornerstone.co.uk/totally)GET IN TOUCH:• find us on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/), where you’ll find video, photos and loads of other stuff:• send us a [tweet: @TheTotallyShow](http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joe Devine is joined by journalist Simon Harrison to discuss the tactics of the La Liga teams we've covered recently on the channel: Barcelona, Valencia, Real Betis & Villarreal. Simon also gives us a promo of our next Tactics Explained video, released later this week, on Las Palmas, the team currently bottom of La Liga. All videos can be accessed by clicking the below links. Barcelona - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL2JhJ4tnzk&t=1s Valencia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gypwhv5G9io Villarreal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTgi3ng7ZHQ&t= Real Betis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd59YwYKE_o Las Palmas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6r0Nhm-asY&t= Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), recently removed from his position, notified that due to government hindrance the national team could miss out the World Cup next ....

No international team has typified the last ten years of football better than Spain and their three trophies in a row between 2008 and 2012. With a group of all-time great players such as Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Xabi Alonso, Iker Casillas and Sergio Ramos, La Furia Roja dominated the international landscape for our first five years in the studio. Those teams were a joy to watch and a joy to talk about, and here we reminisce on what was undoubtedly one of the greatest eras in football history. The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup. No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If rumours coming from Spain and in particular Barcelona are true, it’s no longer a case of ‘if’ Philippe Coutinho...

The unbelievable seemed quite real some days ago. Argentina was almost to miss out the next year’s World Cup. The giants of South America will still be at the World ....

In today’s mid-week pod, Robbie & Robbie discuss Man United's win at Celta Vigo (0:30), Champions League results (15:20), Premier League sides struggling in Europe (19:40), preview West Ham v. Tottenham (25:34) & Chelsea v. Boro (26:45), talk the top-4 race (27:30), preview Arsenal v. Man United (28:18) and discuss relegation (29:27)

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Rog talks with Manchester United midfielder Juan Mata about the dynamic in the club's locker room, his love of English culture, and how he retains the same passion he had for football as a child in Spain. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A bunch of bodies crashed into each other in the Copa América final, and it ended with Messi's international career on life support. The two Mikes dive into the chaos that unfolded at MetLife Stadium before turning their attention to Croatia's cruel exit at the hands of Portugal, Italy's total disruption of Spain, and Iceland's smiting of England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport the show

The two Mikes break down the biggest matches of the Euro 2016 and Copa América Centario weekend, but not before a necessary discussion about the elephant in the room with the Spanish national team, and the lesson we must all learn when it comes to the teams and players we love to watch, and the sexual assault, rape and domestic violence victims who are thoughtlessly cast aside in the name of sport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

The two Mikes can't wait to talk about the red-hot, scintillating action from the first weekend of Copa America Centario, but first, they're going to preview Euro 2016. Specifically, a quick examination of France (the deserved favorites), Germany (who play weirder than you thought), and Spain (no, seriously, they're still really good!). Also: El Tri weirdly struggles with a man advantage, the USMNT wasn't that bad, and Klinsmann isn't that wrong. ...

Festive fun with Vancouver Whitecaps' Carl Robinson, Pedro Morales, Kekuta Manneh, Kendall Waston, Pa Modou Kah, Octavio Rivero, Tim Parker, Mauro Rosales, Alan Koch and Victor Blasco.