Arsenal now vs Man Utd ‘08, Spurs issues & is Kompany Guardiola’s replacement?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Arsenal’s incredible Champions League form this season, how they stack up against the great 2008 Man Utd side, a win for Thomas Frank and Tottenham and the potential job choices that may face Bayern’s Vincent Kompany were all 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 - an unbiased intro
05:14 - An Arsenal Champions League campaign full of impressiveness
11:45 - Arsenal’s forward line and we lose ourselves
14:28 - we regain composure
14:50 - Arsenal play Man Utd next
17:50 - Man Utd 08 vs Arsenal 26 combined XI - who wins?!
29:42 - A Break
29:45 - A break for Thomas Frank too
34:34 - Tottenham’s injuries and sympathy for Frank
38:35 - Is it worth Spurs’ fans being patient?
44:00 - evidence for a future HR hearing…
44:46 - Vincent Kompany’s impressive Bayern Munich
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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 John McKenzie. |
| 0:15.8 | I don't know where I am. |
| 0:16.9 | I know we're in a different place. |
| 0:18.4 | And Seb Stafferblor. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello, Joe Devine. |
| 0:20.2 | I feel a bit like I've gone backwards four years in time. We've been kicked out of our usual room. We would have used the other room, but it's too small, so we've come in here. And we've taken up a lot of time and resource to do this. So fingers crossed, it was worthwhile. I think it was. |
| 0:35.6 | What do you think of the nostalgia? Do you feel it? |
| 0:38.6 | Yes. |
| 0:39.5 | I watched a really interesting Instagram reel about nostalgia. |
| 0:42.6 | Everyone doing this 2016 thing when they're looking back in time. |
| 0:45.6 | Apparently nostalgia is often something that happens when things aren't going well and we also start looking backwards. |
| 0:50.5 | What does it mean if you're nostalgic all the time? |
| 0:53.5 | That means, yeah, you, well, |
| 0:55.8 | it means that everything's good. Okay. Yeah, yeah, everything's fine. But immediately in the past, yeah. Welcome from Germany, Seb Stafferblower. Thank you, Joe. How's it going? It's going. Good. You were at the Dortmund game last night at the Tottenham Hotswurst Stadium. I was. I was. We talk about that on today's episode. Also, |
| 1:11.4 | Steve Hanky's here, but you can't hear or see him, although that was supposed to be the idea. |
| 1:16.9 | He was incredibly loud typing in the background throughout. He dropped his paper at one point. |
| 1:21.9 | Two points. Various screams and shouts, yelps whenever we mispronounce an Arsenal player's name, anything like that. There's one. |
| 1:28.4 | But Steve Hanky's here also very silent in the corner, producer Don. |
| 1:33.6 | Now, what did we talk about on today's episode? |
| 1:35.8 | Well, first off, there's an accusation of bias, isn't there, Steve? |
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