Are Man City back in the title race? Unlucky Wolves and Sunderland’s victory
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The tightening of the title race following Man City’s win over Crystal Palace, a rotten season for Wolverhampton Wanderers, a Wear-Tyne derby victory for Sunderland over Newcastle United and a Scottish League Cup win for St Mirren over Celtic were all discussed in the latest Tifo Football podcast…
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features JJ Bull, Reuben Pinder & Jacob Whitehead and is produced by Steve Hankey.
00:00 - a superstitious intro
03:02 - Manchester City tame The Eagles
07:25 - the permutations of an actual title race
14:45 - Crystal Palace have a very small squad
15:03 - Wolves are hungry for some Premier League points
23:34 - the made up places in England game
26:00 - The Separation Game Part 1
26:26 - A break
26:28 - The Separation Game Part 2
29:36 - Sunderland beat Newcastle!
34:30 - Newcastle struggle with a European season
36:56 - St Mirren Win the Scottish League Cup!
39:25 - Points Are Bad
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm Joe Devine, and today I'm delighted to be joined by JJ Ball. |
| 0:15.5 | Hello. |
| 0:16.4 | Ruben Pender. |
| 0:17.4 | Hello. |
| 0:18.2 | And one of the Athletic's intrepid reporters, writes Steve, free from the mocking calls of his girlfriend's parrot, it's Jacob Whitehead. I'll be soon back with that parrot for Christmas time. Oh, not a parrot for Christmas. Does she have a parrot? Yes. Can it talk? It does mocking laughter. Can it never repeat you like words or sentences or anything like that, no? |
| 0:39.8 | Sadly not. |
| 0:40.6 | Still learning. |
| 0:41.3 | But as we discussed, it's got 60 years of life to learn these skills. |
| 0:45.6 | It's got a long time. |
| 0:46.1 | What do you want to teach it to say? |
| 0:49.9 | I'd quite like it to be it sort of exclusively, exclusively spoke in rhyming couplets. |
| 0:56.9 | Like if you gave a parrot the gift of poetry, what a yawl-tide gift that would be? |
| 1:01.7 | I often like to think of the, you know, the Overton Bridge? |
| 1:06.8 | Okay. |
| 1:08.3 | Something got cut from the episode, possibly the whole story. Maybe just part of the story. Okay. Something got cut from the episode, possibly the whole story. |
| 1:12.7 | Maybe just part of the story. |
| 1:14.8 | We won't know until Steve gets to the edit. |
| 1:17.2 | What do we talk about on today's show, Steve? |
| 1:19.1 | Oh yes, here it is. |
| 1:20.4 | Man City won again. |
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