Bye-Bye Benitez, Hello Coutinho, Lead Pipe & Uncle Damien
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Tifo Football Podcast, Joe, JJ and Seb discuss Everton's turmoil given their recent decision to sack Rafa Benitez after less than seven months, whilst Philippe Coutinho gets a warm welcome after his impressive Aston Villa debut.
Shorter features include: The Africa Cup of Nations' emerging stars, incidents between Real Betis and Sevilla fans causing their Copa Del Rey match to be rescheduled, and a potential Tifo quiz at Uncle Damien's pub!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Tifo football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm now joined by J.J. Bull the bullet. Hello. I've stopped typing now just for you. Well, you were being making too much noise. Okay, sorry. Also, ah, goodnton tag, Herr Stafford Blois. Vigaitz do? |
| 0:20.2 | Good and tag, Herr Devine. McGates isigatee. Gooden tag, Herr Divine. |
| 0:21.6 | My Gates is good. |
| 0:18.3 | Well, that's good. Everyone's fine. As usual. I'm glad we check every week. Yeah. One day someone's going to say, no, I'm not fine. I'm glad every podcast checks how everyone is. Yeah. Otherwise, how would you know? How would everyone know? Yeah. We've already asked ourselves this morning, really. |
| 0:19.4 | Did we do it this morning? |
| 0:20.6 | How are you? |
| 0:37.5 | No, I ignored you know? How would everyone know? Yeah. We've already asked ourselves this morning, really. |
| 0:38.6 | Did we do it this morning? |
| 0:39.8 | How are you? |
| 0:41.5 | No, I ignored you when you came in. |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah, you did. |
| 0:43.5 | He was watching something. |
| 0:55.7 | I was in a meeting. Anyway, loads of football happened this weekend. And of course we've got the blower and the bullet here to cover everything that one might or could possibly care about, including Raffa Benitez, |
| 1:00.8 | losing his job at Everton, of course, 19 games, 19 points. We'll come back to talk about that a little bit later. Norwich winning a game as well. Great timing for us, because we just made a |
| 1:06.1 | video about them last week, so it's useful that one of their very few wins happened in between the recording |
| 1:12.0 | and the release of that. |
| 1:13.9 | Manchester City beat Chelsea 1-0. |
| 1:16.3 | We'll come back to discuss that to AFCON. |
| 1:18.3 | Lots of AFCON stuff to talk about update end of round two. |
| 1:21.5 | We're moving nearer the knockout stages now as well. |
| 1:23.7 | Very exciting when an international tournament gets knockout time. Aston Villa, of course, came back to draw two-two with Manchester United, Philippe Coutinio debut there, as well as Luca Dina. We'll be talking about that, as well as Newcastle-Watford, Walthampton, and the strange incident between Ray Al-Bettis and Severe in the Severe Derby over the weekend as well. We'll come back to talk about that. Plus, a little bit of Uncle Damien time. He's not here, obviously. But we'll be having time with him in our voices. Yeah? Even I don't know what that means. Well, you'll have to wait to the end of the podcast |
| 2:01.3 | to find out. Oh, great. Do you know something you don't have to wait to the end to find out, |
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