Crossing the divide: the voices heard on both Football Weekly and The Totally Football Show

The split

The Totally Football Show's first episode came out on 7 Sep 2017. Alongside Richardson it drew on Football Weekly regulars: Raphael Honigstein, James Horncastle, Iain Macintosh and Michael Cox. Between them, the 5 had made 1,465 Football Weekly appearances before the split. None of them has been on Football Weekly since.

A rare crossing

Of the 229 people heard on Football Weekly since Sep 2017, only 30 (about 13%) have also turned up on The Totally Football Show. Most did it once or twice. Only 7 have appeared at least 3 times on each.

The regular crossers

• Dan Bardell: 14 times on The Totally Football Show (2020–2022), then 47 times on Football Weekly (2024–2026).
• Flo Lloyd-Hughes: 28 times on Football Weekly (2019–2021), then 13 times on The Totally Football Show (2021–2022).
• Dominic Fifield: 7 times on Football Weekly (2017–2019), then 36 times on The Totally Football Show (2021–2025). Also on Football Weekly 5 times before the split.
• Rory Smith: 5 times on Football Weekly and 48 times on The Totally Football Show, going back and forth between 2018 and 2025.
• Nooruddean Choudry: 5 times on The Totally Football Show (2020–2022), then 21 times on Football Weekly (2022–2026).
• Nick Miller: 4 times on Football Weekly (2018–2019), then 28 times on The Totally Football Show (2019–2026). Also on Football Weekly 21 times before the split.
• Kieran Maguire: 8 times on Football Weekly and 3 times on The Totally Football Show, going back and forth between 2020 and 2026.

Dominic Fifield and Nick Miller are the only ones who had been on Football Weekly before the split as well.

The one-offs

The other 23 crossed only once or twice on at least one side: Robyn Cowen, Alex Abnos, Aanu Adeoye, Stuart James, Jordan Jarrett-Bryan, Faye Carruthers, Tariq Panja, Tim Vickery, Ben Mabley, Musa Okwonga, John Nicholson, Mike Parkin, Jeff Rueter, Olof Lundh, Mani Djazmi, Ashley Brown, Andrew Todos, Josh Widdicombe, Christine Seddon, Shireen Ahmed, Keith Bailie, Asif Kapadia and Andy Mitten.