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Talk of the Devils: The Athletic FC's Manchester United show

The Athletic

Man United, Manchester United, Soccer,, Sports, Mufc

4.6 • 771 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It's a hectic time for the Talk of the Devils crew, with two more live shows coming up next week in Manchester (sold out) and Walthamstow (last few tickets here), but Andy found time to squeeze in a Radiohead gig in Madrid; clearly, it's had a profound effect.

Ruben Amorim's Manchester United have one thing on their minds, winning at Spurs. It might actually be easier to achieve that in North London, where Thomas Frank has made a disappointing start, in contrast to a very good record on the road. Another interesting element will be how much possession the visitors have to play with, and how they approach the likely challenge of a low block.

We also heard from Jonny Evans (on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football) and Jason Wilcox (the club's Inside Carrington podcast) this week. Is it a sign of a more open policy with the media, and is that a good thing?

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0:00.0	The Athletic F.C.
0:18.7	This is Talk to Devils, the Athletic Show dedicated to Manchester United.
0:22.5	Coming up today, Manchester United, go marching down to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday.
0:28.0	Lunchtime will preview that game.
0:29.8	The progress feels real.
0:31.7	We've seen the stats now to prove it after 10 matches.
0:34.0	But how would the club cope with Thomas Frank's low block and a strange
0:38.1	atmosphere around home games down in North London as well?
0:42.1	We've also got updates on a hectic fortnight for Talk to the Devils with Andy Mitten
0:46.3	picking up concert tickets, Moroccan hotel rooms and much more in between.
0:51.2	Everyone's here again.
0:52.2	We've got a good run at the minute of everyone being on the show.
0:54.8	So good morning, Laurie, Andy and Carl.
0:56.5	We all right?
1:08.2	Morning. Good. Fantastic. Yeah. Good. Me too. I can't wait for a trip down to London. Tottenham-Oxburgh Stadium. Are you going, are you? I am. I've still not been to that stadium, actually. It's brilliant.
1:09.2	It is really good.
1:10.9	And the canteen's pretty good too.
1:12.7	I heard the media food was good, yeah.
2:01.2	Andy, obviously obviously has gone multiple times. I'm actually, tomorrow, I'm going for Camp Now's opening on my jack. Oh, wow. Okay. Is it finally opening? They're having a training session and they're letting 25,000 in. Oh. So I need no excuse to go there. So it's not that exclusive either. I'm going there and then I'm got a Tottenham and then I'm got a South End and then I'm got a city of Liverpool and then we're doing the stuck with you lads for a few days doing live shows. Life's all about variety. And speaking of variety, we've had lots of weird and wonderful things and people getting in touch about different matters that have been on the podcast across the last week. So we hope you enjoyed that Q&A mailbag episode on Wednesday. It was audio only. So if you've got no idea what I'm talking about, go and have a look at your podcast feed. And there's a bonus podcast in there, Talk to Devils Extra, which we released on Wednesday. But we've had lots of questions, lots of reaction, lots of people getting in touch about Andy's
2:05.3	trip to Fez.
2:06.9	One listener in particular, who we can only hope is actually the owner of a hotel business
2:11.4	because he's invited Andy along.
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