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Tifo Football Podcast

Brilliant Jude Bellingham, Neymar Bias & Is Pep All Tinkered Out?

Tifo Football Podcast

The Athletic

Sports, Football Transfers, Premier League, Champions League, Soccer,

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Joe, Seb and Alex discuss the Champions League and ask such questions as is De Bruyne the best all-round midfielder in the world? Is Neymar under-appreciated? Why are there no notes on the Chelsea vs Porto game?

Plus, Seb sits down with renown author and journalist Mike Calvin to discuss his new book: 'Whose Game Is It Anyway?'


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0:00.0

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0:07.8

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0:17.4

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0:25.9

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0:29.7

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0:41.4

Hello and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm joined now by Alex Stewart.

0:48.1

You are indeed, Joe. Good morning. I am indeed. And Seb Stafford Bloor, good and tag here, Stafford Blois.

1:13.2

Hello, Joe Devine. We're going to be talking today about all the Champions League football. That's right, the big European football, the one that everyone loves. We've got PSG, via Munich, we've got Dortmund, Manchester City, we've got Chelsea, Porto and lots of bats. And we've got Liverpool and Real Madrid, plus a super special section at the end where Seb spoke to author Michael Calvin, which was very exciting too.

1:17.9

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1:22.4

avail yourselves of an offer for three patterns 99 per month, 40% off, I believe that price is, full access to an array of exclusive things like all the football journalism and a really, really good podcast that are ad free. You can listen to our podcast, ad free, you can watch our videos ad free if you'd care to do so by visiting

1:44.2

theathletic.com forward slash Tifo. Tell you what, it's worth it for David Ornstein's Monday

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morning column briefing style thing where you learn everything you need to know about football. Makes

1:54.1

me sound like an expert anyway. Well, it doesn't. Well, that's all for our introduction,

1:58.5

but of course you'll join Alex myself and Seb on a journey through the continent.

2:03.6

So we will leave you in the warm hands and the cool embrace of thousands and thousands of bats. Okay, let's begin with PSG nil, aggregate three, aggregate three won by Munich,

2:26.5

PSG dispensing with their old final foes from last season, progressing of course to the

2:31.2

semi-finals on away goals.

2:33.0

Now, I have to say, Sam and Alex, I watched the Chelsea game, which was obviously extremely dull. And then I saw

2:38.9

on Twitter afterwards all people saying, wow, about PSG Bayern, this is one of the best

2:44.6

games I've ever seen. Or, wow, this is incredible. We're treated as such wonderful football.

2:49.8

What was it like to watch that game?

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