Atletico Madrid's revolution & Where should Iraola manage next?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Atletico Madrid’s progress against Barcelona in the Champions League, their evolution under Diego Simeone and what the future holds for departing AFC Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola were all discussed on this episode of the Tifo football podcast.
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features Jon Mackenzie, Kaya Kaynak & Colin Millar and is produced by Steve Hankey.
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00:00 - An intro
08:50 - Atletico Madrid knock out Barcelona
19:30 - Atletico's evolution & Kaya’s quotes
27:08 - CL permutations without full knowledge of results
32:10 - strongest CL winning narrative?
37:28 - a break
37:30 - THE RONDO
45:10 - Andoni Iraola will leave AFC Bournemouth
53:18 - Where should Iraola go next?
1:04:17 - a recent media acquisition
1:18:18 - should football games be shorter?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm Joe Devine. |
| 0:12.1 | And today I'm delighted to be joined by Colin Millar. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello, Joe Devine. |
| 0:17.0 | How's it going? |
| 0:17.5 | You OK? |
| 0:17.8 | I'm very well. |
| 0:18.6 | How are you? |
| 0:19.0 | Do you like it when I say your name like that? |
| 0:21.2 | I like it for the effect. |
| 0:22.9 | I don't like it for the accuracy. So it sort of balances off. It balances out to neutral. Great. Well, speaking of neutral, it's John McKenzie. He's a neutral now because of news, because of the news. Now you'll find out later, or very shortly, why John's now a neutral. |
| 0:38.4 | Also, Kaya's here. |
| 0:39.5 | I think I'm fine. |
| 0:40.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.2 | I think maybe you're okay. Yeah. The reason you think that is because we don't yet know. And again, we'll come on to explain that. Also, Steve Hankey is here. Hello. He also thinks he's fine. No, he's not fine, regardless of what happens tonight. He's upset. Stick around for Steve Hanky spoke for the longest he's ever spoken in the TIFO football podcast before. He was vexed. He was actually vexed in real life. Could you describe in one word, Steve, and just to be clear, one word, how you were feeling during that moment? Baffled. Baffled. There it is. There it is. Okay. Now, what did we talk about on today's show? Before I get there, let me tell you something else. That is discuss our shit recording slot, but why things are changing next week onwards. Yes, thank you, Steve. Now, let me tell you, we are |
| 1:27.6 | recording this. Well, we started at 2pm. It's now half three on a Wednesday. So it's before |
| 1:35.0 | Arsenal have played sporting. It's before Bayern have played Real Madrid. Why are you |
| 1:40.5 | recording it at this time and then releasing it after those games, you ask? |
| 1:45.0 | I don't know. |
| 1:45.9 | Because A, we're stupid. |
| 1:47.9 | B, this room is a busy room. |
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