Arsenal's 100% record, Liverpool rebuild & Chelsea's LinkedIn
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The permutations for Premier League sides as the Champions League (League) phase comes to a conclusion, Arsenal’s management of domestic & European title chases to this point, what the plans should be for Liverpool in the summer, the communication style of Chelsea head coach Liam Rosenior and the harm the financial might of English football causes to the broader football ecosystem were all discussed in the latest Tifo football podcast.
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features Seb Stafford-Bloor & Oli Kay and is produced by Steve Hankey.
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00:00 - A subtle intro
05:48 - Drama as The Champions League… League phase ends
09:06 - Arsenal’s 100% in Europe, but is everything all right at home?
19:05 - Does modern football suck the joy out of everything?
22:12 - A dog joins the podcast!
22:45 - Joe talks about walking through the woods
24:05 - League leaders & winners as antagonists
28:00 - What’s left for Liverpool this season?
31:45 - Is a summer rebuild actually what Liverpool need?
38:26 - A break
38:28 - The merits plus perils of LinkedIn style aphorisms
45:24 - Should you sub a sub?
50:05 - ice hockey!
52:30 - What do Tottenham Hotspur say about the strength of the Premier League?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm Joe Devine and today I'm delighted to be joined by Seb Stafford Bloor. |
| 0:15.5 | Hello Joe Devine. |
| 0:16.9 | Hello, Seb Stafford Bloor. |
| 0:18.3 | How's it going? |
| 0:18.9 | Yeah, it's going really well. |
| 0:21.7 | Thank you very much for asking. |
| 0:27.5 | We had fun today, didn't we? We were joined by the, I was going to call him the one and only. |
| 0:29.8 | What else? What else? The great, the great Olly Kay. |
| 0:37.5 | The great Olly Kay of the athletic. Olly Kay joined us to talk through. Well, what did he join us to talk through? Let's find out. Plus, Steve Hanky's here. Hello. There is it. You know what? I've broken Steve Hankey down to such an |
| 0:42.8 | extent that, uh, by not saying a normal hello to him, that now he actually includes in the script |
| 0:48.7 | in text plus Steve Hankey is here. He doesn't even instructive to say. He's written himself into the show. |
| 0:55.6 | What a shame. Anyway, okay, what do we talk about today? Well, right, Steve Hankey, we start in |
| 1:01.8 | Seb's happy place, the Champions League. The Champions League League League phase ended yesterday. |
| 1:08.0 | So we reflect a little bit on that, but through the prism largely of the Premier League. |
| 1:14.7 | Also, we talk about why it's wise to ignore Seb if you want to feel happy. |
| 1:19.3 | If you're an Arsenal fan, that's right. |
| 1:20.8 | I couldn't recall what that part was about until the final bit there. |
| 1:25.3 | Oh, yeah, Olly Kay's dog joins the podcast, |
| 1:28.1 | gets pretty pissed off about |
| 1:29.3 | something that Seb was saying. |
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