The Athletic FC

Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and today I'm delighted to be joined by John McKenzie.

Hello.

Also in the human flesh, it's Sebastian Stafford Bloor.

Hello, Joe.

We're joined by Liam Toomey.

Hello. He's the Athletics Chelsea reporter and also Steve Hankies here. Hello. That's it.

So what did we discuss today? Well, let me tell you, we start with Arsenal's narrow victory,

right, Steve, against Chelsea secured, of course, by more set pieces, which we discuss. Chelsea's ninth red card

helped ease Arsenal onto victory. So we talk about Chelsea's discipline. Why are they blotting

their copy books so much this season, right, Steve? We discuss. We also talk about corners.

Is it just really boring now? Does it have to stop? Well, there's mixed opinion in the room.

The phrase, meat shield is used. I enjoyed that greatly. And I am blinded by my animus towards Mikkel Marino. Steve wrote that, but it's fair. I do have animus towards Mikkel Marino. Peacocks are mentioned and how you must be wary of them. Look out for that. And then we play the rondo. Well, actually, we played two Rondos. One of them was an abject failure, though, so you won't be hearing that one. Not for Seb. You did quite well. It was an abject failure with a great deal of success. Yes, a great story at the centre of an abject failure. Under Doctail. There it is. That's right. After the break, Seb and John go completely rogue, that is true. There were mentions of video games living in the medieval times and basically whatever they wanted.

Apparently, I lost control of the room. This makes myself and Steve very nervous. So, what do we do,

Steve? We moved on to Arsenal's nerves in the title race and how it's affecting their

performances. We also touch on the Champions League brackets, as they came out late last week, and to ramp up the nerves even further, we talk about Tottenham's chances of relegation. Have they increased even further after the weekend? And then we play points of bad. And that's the whole show. This episode is sort of like an Arsenal fan's dream episode, isn't it?

Apart from the bit in the middle where I sh-h-on-McAl-Marino, everything else, you would imagine Arsenal fan would love it. You know, not only do we talk about how good their team are, we then talk about the chances of spurs being relegated. Mmm, delicious. And their chances of winning the Champions League? And their chances of winning the Champions League. Stick around to find out who Seb thinks

is going to win the Champions League.

Fucking big surprise. League. And their chances of winning the Champions League. Stick around to find out who, who Seb thinks

is going to win the

Champions League.

Oh, fucking big surprise.

...