Are Spurs secretly bad & are Bayern the best team in the world?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
The statistical flaws underlying Tottenham’s deceptively strong start and the strengths of Bayern Munich & Borussia Dortmund were discussed in the latest Tifo Football podcast…
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features Jon Mackenzie & Seb Stafford-Bloor and is produced by Steve Hankey.
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00:00 - A Seb-less intro
02:48 - a new appointment at Tottenham
7:30 - an underlying conversation about Tottenham
24:30 - a frank conversation about… Thomas Frank
32:50 - postcodes and cockneys
38:33 - a break
38:34 - Bayern Munich vs Borussia Dortmund
49:53 - Jon’s tactico nonsense
53:10 - crossing guards and lollipop people
54:50 - Joe’s impressive impression
55:55 - back to those elitist tacticos
1:00:40 - where does Vincent Kompany rank in the coaching pantheon?
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| 0:00.0 | Gina's a muncher. |
| 0:02.3 | Jackson Nippler. |
| 0:04.5 | Lucy likes to linger. |
| 0:08.1 | But not for too long. |
| 0:10.2 | And Harry? |
| 0:11.9 | Thank you, Harry. |
| 0:13.5 | Mikado is the crunchy biscuit stick |
| 0:15.4 | dipped in smooth milk chocolate |
| 0:17.3 | and makes other biscuits look so ordinary. |
| 0:20.3 | Mikado is deliciously Moorish. |
| 0:22.5 | However you enjoy it, make every day more Macardo. |
| 0:26.4 | Grab a pack in your local store today. |
| 0:28.5 | Find Macardo in the biscuit aisle. |
| 0:30.7 | Over the centuries, the world's greatest wordsmiths have crafted the most beautiful |
| 0:34.5 | sentences ever written. |
| 0:36.3 | Shakespeare. |
| 0:37.0 | Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? |
| 0:40.2 | Austin. |
| 0:40.9 | There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. |
| 0:43.5 | And Jermaine Pennant. |
| 0:45.1 | I pulled two birds and I went home, which is nearly a proverb. |
| 0:49.4 | Hello and welcome to Football Book Club, the only book club that's less Jane Austen, more Charlie Austin. |
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