Ho-hum for England, hope for Scotland and humiliation for Italy

On today’s Totally Football Show, AC Jimbo welcomes to the fold newcomers Seamas O’Reilly from the Irish Times and Watford’s former sporting director Luke Dowling, and they take their spots alongside pod stalwarts Rafa Honigstein and Iain Macintosh as the gang look back on a truly mixed bag of international games.

Yes, England stunk out the joint once again - as did Ireland, to be fair -  but Scotland did the business against Lithuania. It’s that sort of hope that kills, says our man Jim Burke in our first dispatch of the season from beyond the border.  Still, spare a thought for Filippo Maria Ricci who was in Madrid to witness Italy’s shellacking by Spain.  Ouch.

Finally - because we have in Luke a chap who knows a thing or two about football recruitment - we look back on the folly in the final hours of transfer window. Yes, we’re talking about you West Ham, Chelsea and, of course, Arsenal. Oh, Arsenal…

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