Aston Villa vanquish Newcastle, West Ham trip up Arsenal, Champions League quarter finals
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Joe Devine, Jon Mackenzie and JJ Bull are here to talk about some football.
Aston Villa made surprisingly easy work of an in-form Newcastle United side by beating them 3-0 at Villa Park. We rake over the coals of a meeting between two of the Premier League’s in-form sides.
Arsenal managed to draw a game despite being 2-0 up for the second week in a row, this time against relegation-threatened West Ham. Are they screwing it all up?
Joe attempted to give his best inspirational half time team talk and, well just wait…
Brighton & Hove Albion are a very well run football club. They beat Chelsea 2-1 over the weekend, who appear to be less well run…
But will Todd Boehly’s plan work in the long term?
And we review and preview the first and second legs of the Champions League quarter finals.
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is presented by Joe Devine and produced by Steve Hankey.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I am Joe Devine. And today I'm delighted to be enjoyed. To be enjoined. That's quite nice, isn't it? To be enjoined. I think that means we're now married. I hope so, because I would love to spend the rest of my life with John McKenzie. |
| 0:22.1 | Yeah, how you doing, buddy? The feeling is mutual. You okay? Yeah, good, thanks. Good stuff. Also |
| 0:25.5 | joined today by JJ Bull the Bullard. I quite want to do that voice that I was doing earlier. |
| 0:30.3 | Which one? |
| 0:30.8 | Am I got? He's forcing it into the show, Steve. He won't allow you to cut it. Now, say one thing. I put him on the spot, and he lost his confidence. I can talk about a lot of things. There you go. I'm not doing that much. What's happening on the podcast today? Well, so many things happened today. Aston Villa and Newcastle happened today. Oh, it didn't, but it happened a few |
| 0:54.9 | days ago, but it happened today in our chat. And for you, whenever you're listening, even in the |
| 0:59.3 | future, it's happening today. We also discussed the surprising value of maple syrup to the |
| 1:04.6 | Canadian economy. Thanks, John, for bringing us to that. Have Arsenal completely fucked it |
| 1:09.6 | after the weekend? Yes or no? |
| 1:11.9 | I'm not sure that we reached a conclusion |
| 1:13.5 | because I think we started talking about other things. |
| 1:18.0 | Namely, I tried to do a dressing room speech, didn't I? |
| 1:21.2 | Because I thought I'd be a good one in there at half time. |
| 1:24.5 | So I gave that go and I think it was pretty good. |
| 1:27.3 | I think it's a well-structured |
| 1:29.0 | improvised section. A Welsh structured. Yeah. I did spend a lot of time in Wales as a child. So it |
| 1:34.9 | wouldn't be a surprise to me or you. But did I say Welsh? If I structured my things in a Welsh way. |
| 1:39.5 | I meant well. Well, things got hazy around that end. but things cleared up again when we discussed Brighton and Chelsea. |
| 1:47.8 | Good God. |
| 1:49.0 | What a strange affair that was over the weekend. |
| 1:50.8 | We talk broad. |
| 1:51.7 | We take five steps back and look at the big picture. |
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