Mourinho fury as Real lose Madrid derby while Kane breaks more records

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The episode provides a comprehensive review of European football action across various leagues ahead of the international break. The hosts discuss

Key takeaways

• Harry Kane became the fastest player to reach 100 Bundesliga goals, achieving the feat in just 98 games.
• Jose Mourinho used A4 printouts of controversial refereeing decisions during his post-match press conference for Real Madrid.

Main topics

• Harry Kane's Bundesliga records
• Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid derby

Notable quotes

A dreadful refereeing performance decides the derby.

Conclusion

The episode serves as a high-value digest for fans tracking the major

Transcript preview

Speaker 6 (0:00) TOTAL FOOTBALL SHOW, EUROPEAN EDITION. Speaker 6 (0:34) Monday 21st of September. Hello there. It's a Euro Tody Football Show and of course that means James Horncastle and Tom Williams here in the studio. Hello James. Hello Jimbo. Nice to see you both and nice to have a little visit from Seb who's probably come over because friends or other important things that you're doing. Friends. Speaker 4 (0:52) Just loads of friends. Too many friends. Yeah, just coming over. Never have too many in Speaker 6 (0:57) my opinion. Paul Balloose is a friend. Wish you were here with us, Paul. Yeah, Speaker 2 (1:01) yeah, yeah. I was here too. Okay. So in our hearts. Maybe not, but yeah. You're an existential statement there. I Speaker 3 (1:09) wish I was here too. He actually sounded Speaker 4 (1:11) very sincere to the point where I felt a little bit sad about that. Speaker 3 (1:14) AI Paul speaking to listeners. Speaker 2 (1:17) Have you had a good weekend, Paul? I did have a good weekend. I have a nice wedding I attended to. Congratulations. I was actually officiating. Is that a word? Oh, you were officiating. What? Yeah, yeah. Speaker 6 (1:27) I was doing that. You Speaker 2 (1:28) were officiating. You Speaker 4 (1:29) were ordained, Speaker 6 (1:30) Paul. Speaker 2 (1:30) Yeah, no, because... It wasn't like a religious ceremony. Were you the linesman or something? Yeah, yeah, something like this. What were you doing? Do you Speaker 6 (1:38) mean that you were like an usher or Speaker 2 (1:40) you played a Speaker 6 (1:41) role? No, Speaker 2 (1:41) sort Speaker 6 (1:41) of, yeah, Speaker 2 (1:43) presenting the whole event or something like this. Oh. Yeah, just making like a speech before it and introducing like all the… You were emceeing. He was master of ceremony. Exactly, emceeing. That's a nice way to put it. Yeah, that's Speaker 6 (1:55) a Speaker 2 (1:55) nice way to put it. Speaker 6 (1:56) Wow, who got married? Did they hire you for this or do you know them? Speaker 2 (2:02) I mean, I wish, like now, I wish they had hired me, but no, they did pay me nothing because it was my best mate from my hometown. So, yeah. Hard to ask for payment in those circumstances. Still Speaker 4 (2:13) should Speaker 2 (2:13) have got something. If you Speaker 6 (2:16) were getting married, Tom, which one of us would you have MC? I'd go Horncastle, I think. Horncastle could be very Speaker 5 (2:22) smooth. He would be very smooth, right? Speaker 6 (2:24) Listen, if you're getting married and you fancy having an MC, I reckon get in touch. I don't think the rates are going to be... It's Speaker 4 (2:31) going to be competitive. Speaker 6 (2:32) It's going to be competitive. Speaker 5 (2:33) Yeah, absolutely. Then he'll realise the fire that he has in his hands and it'll be... I Speaker 3 (2:38) would back James, although I think James would also be very good as the band frontman for me. Oh, Speaker 6 (2:45) really? Speaker 3 (2:46) Yeah. But I'm not musical. But you sing, James. Speaker 6 (2:49) No, but the horncastle sings, so that's double threat. Speaker 3 (2:53) I don't have... Speaker 6 (2:54) Costume change. Oh, Speaker 3 (2:55) he's behind the mic. Entertainment level, sir, from Jet D. I don't know. Speaker 6 (2:59) I don't know. Hey, why not get all five of us? Speaker 3 (3:03) I mean, why Speaker 5 (3:05) not? A barbershop quintet. That would be great, wouldn't it? Yeah, yeah. Some harmonies. Speaker 6 (3:12) I'm so sorry, Tom. When Speaker 5 (3:13) we Speaker 6 (3:13) talk about singing, if you're talking about singing, you can't say fairer than Tom Williams. That's not a thing. Invitation, Tom. Anyway, we must move on. Congratulations to the happy couple, Paul. And well done to you for, you know, playing such a part in this special day. Was that your moment of the week, Paul? It's Speaker 4 (3:30) going Speaker 6 (3:30) to be awkward if it's not, Speaker 4 (3:31) right? Speaker 6 (3:32) That's one match you saw. Yeah, Speaker 2 (3:34) I do have another one because I prepared myself. Am Speaker 6 (3:37) I Speaker 2 (3:37) scoring? Speaker 6 (3:37) Potentially, Speaker 2 (3:38) I don't know. Okay, what's your moment of the week? My moment of the week, I'm going to stick to Friday. I'm not going to disclose what happened beyond Friday because, yeah, I was on the wedding. So I'm going to stick to Friday, which was the La Liga opening game of the weekend. It was in Barcelona, Espanyol against Elche. Basically, Elche were this team, that they were the team in La Liga with more goals conceded before the weekend, still to have a clinch this season, a lot of things to worry about defensive-wise. The game starts against Espanyol, sixth minute of the game, and Federico Redondo, one of the centre-backs of Elche, is just sent off. So basically, you think, well, it's all downhill from here. It's just another year. At the office, Elche are going to go down again. And, yeah, surprisingly enough, they got ahead 2-0 by half-time. So basically, two outstanding goals by Ferninho, their striker. The Espanyol goalkeeper won't have a night that, yeah, he won't remember it fondly because he was a bit at fault in both goals. But a 10-man Elche side were ahead by two goals by half-time. Espanyol reacted a bit in the second half, but they didn't really create a lot of problems. They could one goal back. And Elche ends up scoring the third one at the counter. Speaker 2 (4:59) Yeah, just to basically to win the game 3-1 and just to become the first team in the 21st century that wins a La Liga match by a two-goal margin after seeing a red card in the first six minutes of a game. That's extraordinary. Christ, that... Also, Speaker 6 (5:12) the young man who got sent off, that surname sounds familiar, Speaker 2 (5:15) Paul. I mean, I was about to mention that because Elche, like we mentioned Federico Redondo, who is the centre-back that, yeah, that was sent off. He's the son of Fernando Redondo. who, as you will know, he's a former Tenerife and Real Madrid player, Bo, Elche are quite a niche team in La Liga because they have four players in their team that are children of players from the 90s in La Liga. So a striker who scored two goals, Ferninho, is the son of Fernando Ninho, who used to be the captain of... The one who played for... Liverpool, no? Fernandinho. Speaker 6 (5:55) Yeah? Speaker 2 (5:55) Yeah. No. He's only eight years Speaker 3 (5:59) old. It's incredible. He's Speaker 6 (6:01) been Speaker 3 (6:01) causing havoc all summer. He's been hot. Has he been hot? Yeah. Speaker 6 (6:04) Oh, right, yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of pressure on him. Anyway, sorry, Paul. That was one of Speaker 2 (6:12) them. Speaker 6 (6:12) We've got three more to go. Speaker 2 (6:14) Yeah, so one is Fernandinho, one is Federico Redondo, as we mentioned. The other one is Roy Revivo. who is the left back. He is the son of an Israeli player, Haim Revivo, who played for Celta de Vigo back in the 90s too. And then Marc Aguado, who didn't play in that game, but he's that Xavi Aguado, is the player with most appearances, I think, for Real Zaragoza. He was the captain of the team during 13 seasons. So, yeah, a lot of 90s culture in Spanish football in this team. Speaker 6 (6:45) Magnificent. Magnificent. Tom, what about your moment of the week? So I went to watch Paris FC on Saturday Speaker 5 (6:53) against Strasbourg. First time I've ever been to the Stade Jean-Bouin, just across the road, quite literally from Parc des Princes. Paris FC were absolutely superb. One of the most convincing and coherent team performances I've seen in a long time. Almost literally didn't give Strasbourg a kick. Pressed really aggressively. Lovely combinations between their attacking players. and they've got a very likable midfield pairing of Maxime Lopez, who came through at Marseille, spent a bit of time in Italy, is now back in France, Pierre-Lys Malou, briefly of the Premier League. Briefly Speaker 4 (7:31) of Norwich? Is that right? Briefly of Speaker 5 (7:33) Norwich, yeah. And that kind of, they sort of set the tempo for all of Paris FC's attacking play. There's some lovely combinations and they scored two really nicely taken goals either side of half-time. Strasbourg were just suicidally trying to play out from the back every single time they had a goal kick or the ball was in the keeper's hands. And one of those instances led to Paris turning the ball over and Ilan Kebal, who's this very talented left-footed... right-sided attacking player chipping in from the edge of the penalty area. Pablo Pagis puts them ahead, puts them 2-0 up early in the second half. Strasbourg pulled them back late on, but I mean, you know, it was pretty flattering. But the moment of the game slash the week is what happened after the game. So Liam Messina, formerly of Strasbourg, fleetingly of Chelsea Football Club, is now in the dugout at Paris FC, has had a very successful start to the season, and inevitably... Perhaps in the second half, the Strasbourg fans start goading him by chanting something that wasn't very nice about his Speaker 6 (8:46) mum. I mean, there Speaker 5 (8:48) were so many, like, there weren't any LinkedIn references. I was hoping he might get like a LinkedIn, like, LinkedIn profile page mocked up being held aloft. None of that. There was an announcement over the loudspeaker, please stop the nasty chanting, whatever. Final whistle goes and the players, you know. go onto the pitch and Rossini is walking around applauding the home fans and he gets to the Strasbourg section and just kind of like goads them like really goes for it like yeah Speaker 1 (9:16) yeah Speaker 4 (9:17) anyway Speaker 5 (9:21) one of his former players at Strasbourg comes up to him to say look you know leave it out no need for that at which point Rossini tells him look don't make a scene Don't make a scene. Okay, sure, fine. Too late, unfortunately, because a scene had been made. So some of the Strasbourg players come over to him. There's a little bit of argy-bargy. There's a big melee. Everyone kind of piles in. And finally, he's extricated from it and carries off walking around the perimeter of the pitch, you know, kind of cheering the fans and giving it all that. And then he doubled down in his post-match press conference, in his post-match interviews. He said, you know, I spent a year and a half at Strasbourg. I had a fantastic time there. I, you know, built great relationships with people at the club. I've got so much respect for the supporters. What they did was completely out of order. And so I was entitled to go and give them a bit of, and yeah. If you're clipping up bits of Tom, Speaker 6 (10:17) out of Speaker 3 (10:18) context, Tom Williams. Speaker 5 (10:19) That's Speaker 2 (10:20) an all-time. That's Speaker 5 (10:21) a Speaker 6 (10:21) terrific noise. Your 1930s voice the other day went over hard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Excellent. Well, that was quite the moment of the Speaker 4 (10:30) week. Seb? Not sure I can follow that, Jimbo. I'm going to try. So, lovely moment in Bremen over the weekend. So, Vardar Bremen go 2-0 down against Augsburg at home. Pull back to 2-2. Niklas Falkrug scored for the second game in a row. Nice to see him scoring goals again. 93rd minute, Mitchell Weiser scores a winner. Now, Mitchell Weiser tore his cruciate ligament in July 2025, missed the whole of last season, made his comeback finally in the last game week as a substitute. This is kind of like his 29th cumulative minute back and curled in from the edge of the box, left-footed to the opposite top corner. Really, really emotional in this celebration. Right in front of the fans. Place one absolutely crazy. Goal horn goes off. Proclaimers over the tannoy. Great moment. Really lovely. They still have the proclaimers. Which one do they go? A Thousand Miles. All right then. All right. Yeah, it's not quite the old status quo at Leverkusen, which has now been replaced. Which do they have? Rocking all over the world? They had, yeah. I like it. Yeah, rocking all over the world. It's now being replaced by... some sort of Euro pop called, it's just called All Around the World now. Speaker 6 (11:44) All right, Around the World. What does the gold horn sound like? It's a ship Speaker 4 (11:48) horn. Indeed, yeah. It's a very, very loud ship fog horn, which is a reference to kind of Bremen's industrial past. Okay. Speaker 6 (11:57) It's very cool. It's very cool. Very loud. Let's go to our own horn. Nice. Your moment of the week, James. Speaker 3 (12:05) Well, I will be following. Tom's example of showing a lack of respect, James, which in Italy, if you show a lack of respect, it doesn't go down well. And this is what happened at the Juventus-Atalanta game where there is a minute silence for one of the all-time greats of Italian football, Sandro Mazzola, someone who played for the Grande Inter in the 60s. And because of... that rivalry, that tribalism, or at least this is the justification of some Juventus ultras, during that minute silence, they turned their backs on it and began to sing for their own fallen heroes instead of Sandro Mazzola. So this was roundly criticized and the club, Juventus, put out a statement saying that they had not shown. compassion, empathy, very unsporting of them to act in this way. I Speaker 6 (13:10) thought it was really strange. The ultras have their own culture, but everybody liked Sandro Mazzola. I don't recall any particular beef between him, even as a player. He turned down, I think, the chance to go to Juve. Largely because his dad would have spun in his grave, according to his mother, because his dad was part of the greatest Italian side ever, Valentin Mazzolo of the Grande Torino. Speaker 3 (13:32) Exactly. And, yeah, I mean, yeah, not to... make Elche look like a very budget Nepo baby team. But Sandro Mazzoli is kind of the original Nepo baby. As you mentioned, his father has been playing away from home, as they say, in Turin for the last, whatever, since 1949. The Superga air crash, you know, that team, the Grande Torino side that went to play a testimonial in Lisbon. for I think the Benfica captain at the time and never came back. And, you know, he and his brother Ferruccio were orphaned. Strange, strange moment where his father's partner at the time basically ran off with young Sandro. And so he was even more sort of disoriented. It's like not only lost his father, but didn't know where he was. Right. Speaker 6 (14:34) Well, he was only six, poor child. He became an inter-legend. He Speaker 3 (14:38) did. Second Speaker 6 (14:38) to Cruyff in the Ballon d'Or in 1971. Very Speaker 3 (14:42) famous for, he was known as Il Baffo for his moustache. Scored in that European Cup. Scored two goals against the great Real Madrid side of the early Champions League, early European Cup, sorry, era. And I think along with Giacinto Facchetti is probably the... the player you most associate with, not only the first great Inter team, but when Italian football was really, well, for the first time, it's club football, Milan was the center of the world, both Inter and Milan. And it was a lovely piece written by Gianni Rivera, who was the number 10 of Milan at the same time, celebrating. Sandro Mazzola's memory and how they both kind of completed each other and yeah they were made to do the famous staffette relay in 1970 the World Cup where Italy's coach at the time would only play one or the other rather than both and it kind of created this idea that there was antipathy between Mazzola and Rivera and instead they they got on they respected each other Speaker 4 (15:57) Gerrard and Lampard of that Speaker 5 (15:58) day. Yeah. Speaker 4 (16:00) James, when Italians refer to the Grande Torino side, is that Grande prefix something that's just designated to any great side or is it related to the tragedy itself? Speaker 3 (16:11) There are only, no, because the Grande Torino, I think some people would still say they're the greatest Italian team of all time. And if they had lasted into the beginning of the European Cup, you know. Real Madrid would not have won the first five European Cups. That's, you know, a legend that they tell themselves, I suppose. But there are very few teams that get the grande moniker now. Speaker 6 (16:36) Inter, you mentioned, on account of winning the back-to-back European Cups. Yes. Yeah. I'm not sure which other ones. I mean, you wouldn't say Il Speaker 3 (16:43) Grande Milan. You'd say Saki's Milan. Saki's Milan. Or Milan had their own, you know, the invincibili, the invincibles. Speaker 3 (16:53) I think grande teams in Italian football, you have grande Inter and grande Torino, don't you? Speaker 6 (16:58) Okay. Interesting question. Learned something. There you go. Hopefully we'll learn loads more in the course of today's show. We're going to begin with Spain poll. Speaker 1 (17:15) The New York Times app unlocked? Everyone knows you need to subscribe to the Times to access all of the reporting. But what if you could explore the Times for a month, for free, without putting in a credit card? Now you can. When you download the New York Times app for the first time, your first month in the app is free. A month to go behind the paywall to see what Times subscribers get every single day. If you don't already subscribe to the New York Times, Download the Times app today and get free access for 30 days. Speaker 6 (17:48) The Madrid derby. Speaker 2 (17:50) Yes. Tell us all about it. I mean, it was quite an eventful game. Who would have thought at halftime, I was watching the game and I was like, that's a really poor game in terms of football and the fluidity of the game. There was nothing, a lot happening. But then in the second half, it all blew up. Atletico de Madrid scored the first goal after the break, thanks to Dean Howsen's special delivery. He basically pulled Juliano Simeone down. last man sent off penalty for Atletico Madrid and Alejandro Grimaldo scored. And then Real Madrid from there, 10 men, 40 minutes to still play into the game. They just disappeared. Mourinho took Vinicius off to try to gain a bit more balance and more work rate in the team, but it wasn't enough. You could see a team that was not... connected, I would say, between all the lines. And then James Horncastle's best mate, Jonathan David, came in again, back at it. Another goal. Really good delivery. I think it was Simone from the right.