Are Chelsea falling apart? Spurs improve & Marco Rose to Bournemouth?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Chelsea’s loss to Manchester United and the severe blow dealt to their Champions League qualification hopes, Tottenham’s dropping of two precious points at the death against Brighton in the race for survival and the potential appointment of Marco Rose at AFC Bournemouth were all discussed in this episode of the Tifo Football podcast.
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features Seb Stafford-Bloor, JJ Bull & Reuben Pinder and is produced by Steve Hankey.
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00:00 - a familiar intro
05:09 - Chelsea lose yet again
09:40 - A crow attacked Joe’s wife!
12:30 - Back to Chelsea
18:10 - Chelsea fan protest
21:33 - The difficulties Liam Rosenior faces
27:00 - promising times for Man Utd
30:10 - a break
30:12 - THE RONDO
39:26 - Two precious points dropped for Tottenham
49:26 - Will the Cherries soon be receiving a Rose?
54:40 - Coventry City are back in the Premier League!
1:00:25 - Reuben’s European holiday and befriending Villa fans
1:01:37 - Points Are Bad
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Joe Devine and today I'm delighted to be joined by JJ Ball. |
| 0:15.9 | I wonder what other birds remember things. |
| 0:17.7 | Oh, that's true. It's a good question because we talked about birds today. |
| 0:20.7 | Yes. Ruben birds today. Yes. |
| 0:21.1 | Ruben Pinder. |
| 0:21.9 | Hello. |
| 0:22.9 | Seb Stafferblot joins us all the way from R. Deutschland. Hello, Joe. There he is. And Steve Hanky's here also. Hello. Right. Now, what did we... And Steve Hanky's very sad. Yes. There he is. What do we talk about today? |
| 0:36.2 | Well, first I should say that if you're coming here |
| 0:39.6 | expecting us to talk about Arsenal, Manchester City, well, you're in the wrong place. We did that yesterday on a live stream, which is also up on the podcast feed. I was joined by John and Kaya to do that. So if you want to hear about that game, and a little, little snip of snap, snap it, snippet, crackle pop, a little crapple and pop of the Merseyside Derby at the end as well, then you can check yesterday's episode. Today, here's what we're talking about. Well, Manchester United kept their sheets clean against Chelsea, right, Steve, who pooped theirs yet again. Now, this small script line diverted the podcast immediately |
| 1:11.8 | to discuss why clean sheets |
| 1:13.2 | are called clean sheets. |
| 1:15.0 | We did do that. |
| 1:15.7 | When you forgot a script |
| 1:16.9 | that you were in charge of it. |
| 1:18.3 | I'd read it aloud four weeks ago. |
| 1:20.3 | My wife was attacked by a crow. |
| 1:23.1 | We discussed it. |
| 1:25.3 | Very alarming. |
| 1:26.4 | So I shared that with all of you. We go on to speak about |
| 1:28.8 | what Chelsea's unusual strategy has built. Is it a top six landfill football squad? Well, maybe it is. |
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