''The Totally Football Show'' presented by James Richardson is a thrice weekly podcast about

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produced by Muddy Knees Media. From June 15, 2020 it was incorporated into and also available via

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. It regularly features on lists of the best association football podcasts.

History

The podcast was an off-shoot of ''

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'' newspaper's '' Football Weekly'' podcast from which presenter Richardson, Producer Ben, and regular contributor Iain Macintosh left in order to create their own product ahead of the 2017–18 season. The new shows received five million downloads in their first two months. Throughout the 2017–18 season 26 million downloads were reported. For the 2018–19 season the 'Totally Football Show' will be sponsoring the football shirts of Melchester Rovers in the re-boot of the

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graphic novels. In June 2020, Muddy Knees Media and The Totally Football Show became part of

Content

As well as the flagship ''Totally Football Show'', the ''Totally Football League show'' and ''Golazo: the Totally Italian Football Show'', the ''Totally Football League Show'', and the ''Totally Scottish Football Show'' are also weekly podcasts co-produced by Audio Boom who reportedly saw their profits increase by 329% in 2017. The ''Totally Football Show: American Edition'' was launched in October 2018 hosted by

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record caps holder Cobi Jones. It ended after MLS Cup was handed out that season. The Monday and Thursday editions of the show typically focus on news around the English

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. The Tuesday edition of the show, known as the "European edition," usually focuses on

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, the German

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and Ligue 1, as well as the

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and any other European leagues making news the previous weekend, with Richardson regularly joined by contributors James Horncastle,

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and Alvaro Romeo. There are also Totally Football Live shows held at venues such as

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in London.

Regular contributors

* Duncan Alexander *Carl Anka * Caroline Barker *

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* Adrian Clarke * Michael Cox *Matt Davies-Adams *Natalie Gedra *Sasha Guryanov *

*Lynsey Hooper * James Horncastle * Richard Hughes * Adam Hurrey *Jack Lang *

*Flo Lloyd-Hughes * Iain Macintosh *

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*Bassil Mikdadi *

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* Sam Parkin * David Preece *Alvaro Romeo * Daniel Storey *Tom Williams

Reception

They were nominated for ‘podcast of the year’ at the 2017

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Awards. On 31 October 2018, it was announced that ''The Totally Football Show'' has been nominated in the ‘podcast of the year’ category at the 2018 Football Supporters Federation Awards. On 10 April 2019 the show was nominated in the ‘Best Sport Podcast’ category at the

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which it subsequently won. The Totally Football Show was shortlisted for the Podcast of the Year at the

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awards in 2021. In February 2023 the show was nominated in the Podcast category at the British Sports Journalism Awards. In April 2023, the podcast won best soccer podcast at the Sports Group Podcast Awards.

References

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