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Tifo Football Podcast

Changing The Rules & Free Kick Walls

Tifo Football Podcast

The Athletic

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

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Tifo team discuss the trend for lying down behind the wall on free kicks. Why does it happen? Is it effective? Shall we call it a “draft excluder”? Plus, purely hypothetically, Joe, Seb and Alex decide which rules they would change to make football better.


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0:00.0

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

0:11.2

Good morning. And Seb Stateord Bloor. Hello, Joe Devine.

0:15.3

Hi gang. How's it going? It's okay.

0:19.1

Yeah. Well, it's a bright and breezy

0:21.3

Tuesday morning

0:23.1

as we record

0:24.3

football's happening tomorrow of course

0:26.4

so don't expect us to talk about that

0:28.2

because tomorrow is your yesterday

0:30.0

but we have got an exciting

0:32.1

lineup

0:34.1

I don't know why that made me laugh

0:36.9

tomorrow is your yesterday sounds like,

0:40.2

sounds like you're selling a kind of a motivational product like your tomorrow is your yesterday.

0:44.9

It's a weight loss seminar where you don't have to do any work. You know, like, you know,

0:48.9

you've already done it. It's like you're recasting yourself with some kind of guru.

0:53.1

Yeah. Well, recasting or just emphasizing.

0:55.8

You know, firming up.

1:11.7

But, you know, other things we're going to firm up today is changing the game. We're going to change the game today. We're going to change the game. So we can change any rule or law within the game today. That's going to be fun. I'm excited about this. Before we get to that, we're also going to talk about something we've noticed happening in Premier League games, free kicks. We're going to kick off talking about

1:17.5

that, which is, you know, something that's been around for a while, but unusual nonetheless.

1:22.1

But before all of this, let me remind listeners that if you're looking for something to, you know, while away the hours, locked in your home, and you can't bear to listen to your family members anymore, the novelty's gone.

1:35.4

You love these people, and either you're with them because you're related through blood and there's some kind of social cohesion, which makes that a necessary relationship.

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