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

Good morning, Joe. And Seb Stafford Bloor. Morning, Joe Devine.

Morning. We're going to talk today about Tottenham Hot Spur. Topham Hotspur.

Spurs, anything else? Any other nicknames I've forgotten about? The Lily Whites? Is that them? Yeah, the

Lily Whites. Okay. Well, because it's going to win the league, aren't they? That's, anyway, that's talk around the town. That's the town that I'm in. But that's talk everywhere. You go to the local co-op. You go into the local bakery. People are saying that spurs, they're as good as they were in 1960.

And these are elderly people who would remember.

So you have to trust them because of their wisdom. People are saying that spurs, they're as good as they were in 1960. And these are elderly people who would remember.

So you have to trust them because of their wisdom.

Obviously, we're going to treat it with some skepticism, as you should do.

But the facts are the same.

Marino's team look pretty good.

And they look better than many of the teams that we've seen this season so far. It's been a very inconsistent season. So today we're going to talk about Marino. We're going to talk about Spurs. That's my door. And I've got to get it because it's Christmas presents. Back in a minute. Seb, tell people what it's going to be. I actually tuned out while Joe was talking because he does that thing where he sort of,

he just,

he just carries on,

like a bicycle without any brakes or a hill without an end.

Like the Lads on the Hovis advert who just is cruising down the cobbles,

health and safety nightmare.

You know,

we should also say 1961, a little bit of a fact check there,

before we press on.

But shall we get going?

Adonis, please create a break and let us begin.

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