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Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine, and today I'm delighted to be joined by J.J. Ball.

Sounds like you're talking really fast, Joe.

I am because guess what? There's people from a more

important podcast waiting outside for us to finish recording the intro. You know, we do that at the end, by the way. It's a sort of time shift thing. So it's useful that I've already sort of deliberately derailed this bit to add on more time. Yeah, I would say so. Yeah. John McKenzie. It would be really bad, I think if we did drag this bit out

I think Steve's going spare

Yeah because I can

Through the window I can see the people waiting and I can see how important they are. And there's something about that that makes me want to slow down a little bit. Steve's looking nervous. Steve Hangy's here. Hello. You can hear it in his croaky, crackly little voice there. And of course, also, we're so happy to be joined. I think it's a first back this year. Back on Vidvid, it's Ruben Pinda. We're abandoning the baby. Hello, hello. Thanks for having me back. It's been a pleasure. It's nice, isn't it?

It's nice.

Well, it will be a pleasure for the rest of the show.

Because this is the intro.

Thank you. Yes, yes, yes. Now, what did we talk about today? What will we talk about? You've put me in a strange tense now. What did we talk about today? Oh, Arsenal, Manchester City.

We talked about Arsenal, Manchester City.

Five, one.

Something, something, something. What even is an elite finisher these days? Do they have Tudor feet? I've got about that. I don't even know what Tudor feet is. It's Henry V, isn't it? Like, he has square feet.

Did he have square feet? I don't know. All the shoes he wore were square. Okay. Good, good, good. Square shoes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Crystal Palace soaring up the table ahead of Manchester United. We talk about that. Ruben gives us the inside skinny on Palace so far this season. I don't think you can have the skis.

This was like a double negative, isn't it?

Can you have the inside skinny on Palace so far this season. I don't think you can have the skis. This was like a double negative, isn't it? Can you have the inside skinny or just the skinny? Or the inside knowledge? Do you understand that we get inside knowledge from what has been read there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But is it the skinny, if you're getting the skinny, I feel like. Steve, if you could hurry up, please, we're running a little bit late. Will Marcus Rashford's move to

Aston Villa, work or bear fruit? If so, what kind of fruit? And John Drenz moved to Saudi Arabia. We talk about that. Is it a bad idea or not? And we also played points of bad. That was it, wasn't it? it that was good hell of phone and then we did a

plug for a show that we're doing as well also that comes immediately after this yeah so get ready

for that that's gonna after the music is finished playing you'll hear that and i'm just thinking

if there's anything else i can do to drag out uh it's the athletic fc podcast outside it podcast outside. It's a very good podcast, by the way. It's really, they put a lot of effort into making sure that they arrive on time. They stay within time. Whereas I was late today and that's why we've overrun. But I hope whatever their show is goes really well. I wonder what it's on. It could be on anything, couldn't it? It's deadline day to day. Although I do actually need to say that. It is Deadline Day Today as we record, but our podcast won't be released until the day after Deadline Day, which, as we all know, is Deadline Day plus one. Or Deadline Day minus 150. Where you box up all of the failed transfers. Yeah. Send them out to the poor.

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