# Is De Zerbi Spurs' saviour? Can Italy end their World Cup curse? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-totally-football-show-with-james-richardson-923658/is-de-zerbi-spurs-saviour-can-italy-end-their-world-cup-curse Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-totally-football-show-with-james-richardson-923658/is-de-zerbi-spurs-saviour-can-italy-end-their-world-cup-curse.md Podcast: [The Totally Football Show with James Richardson](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-totally-football-show-with-james-richardson-923658) Published: 2026-03-30T14:34:08+00:00 Episode link: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/podcast/200-the-totally-football-show/episode-696 Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6818cd43eb146d8e35d312c7/e/69ca89e1fcd79a341502fea7/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-totally-football-show-with-james-richardson-923658/episodes/is-de-zerbi-spurs-saviour-can-italy-end-their-world-cup-curse Duration seconds: 3389 ## Resource Matt Davies-Adams takes the hotseat alongside Daniel Storey, Tom Williams, Duncan Alexander, Felipe Cardenas and Dan Kilpatrick as Tottenham say goodbye to another manager.   Igor Tudor is shown the door by Spurs after just seven games in charge. The club are pushing to make former Brighton boss Roberto De Zerbi his replacement, but is he what they need right now?    Boos at Wembley for Ben White who scores, then gives away a penalty in England’s 1-1 friendly draw with Uruguay.   And who will take the last six places at this year’s World Cup? The final qualifying playoff games take place on Tuesday.   Produced by Lucy Oliva and Xavi Bird   RUNNING ORDER:  • PART 1: Tudor leaves Spurs (4:45) • PART 2A: England 1-1 Uruguay (26:30) • PART 2B: France 3-1 Colombia (36:30) • PART 3: USA 2-5 Belgium (43:30) • PART 4: World Cup playoff preview (49:30) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-totally-football-show-with-james-richardson-923658/episodes/is-de-zerbi-spurs-saviour-can-italy-end-their-world-cup-curse/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-totally-football-show-with-james-richardson-923658/is-de-zerbi-spurs-saviour-can-italy-end-their-world-cup-curse.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.