Chelsea hold Arsenal, Liverpool & Man Utd win & Spurs lose again
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ten man Chelsea’s impressive draw with leaders Arsenal, wins for Manchester United and Liverpool plus yet another defeat for Tottenham Hotspur were all discussed in the latest Tifo Football podcast…
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features JJ Bull, Reuben Pinder & Luke Bosher and is produced by Steve Hankey.
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00:00 A blues intro
04:55 - ten men Chelsea hold Arsenal
16:47 - Arsenal haven’t played without either Gabriel or Saliba for ages
22:40 - Liverpool beat West Ham without Salah
29:35 - The Separation Game Part 1
30:32 - An advertisement break
30:35 - The Separation Game Part 2
37:35 - Crystal Palace lose to Man Utd
44:40 - Tottenham lose again!
56:20 - A tight Premier League
1:01:33 - Points Are Bad
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic F.C. |
| 0:06.7 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Joe Devine. |
| 0:12.1 | And today I'm delighted to be joined by JJ Ball. |
| 0:15.6 | Wahoo! |
| 0:16.8 | Luke Bosha. |
| 0:17.7 | Hi. |
| 0:18.3 | And Ruben Pinder. |
| 0:19.5 | Hello. |
| 0:20.0 | All right, that's it going? |
| 0:20.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.5 | Yeah. Also, Steve, thank he's here. Hello. There heha. Hi. And Ruben Pinder. Hello. All right. How's it going? Yeah. Also Steve Hanky's here. Hello. There he is. Okay, fine. Oh, yeah, actually, Steve Hanky wrote something about you here. Luke, he says, and he's back for more, but with me for the first time. Fresh from the athletic newsroom, it's Luke Bowsher. Okay, here's the things that we discussed on today's podcast. |
| 0:41.3 | Chelsea. Fresh from the athletic newsroom, it's Luke Bowsha. Okay, here's the things that we discussed on today's podcast. |
| 0:41.3 | Chelsea performed admirably, right, Steve. |
| 0:44.0 | When down to 10 men against Arsenal, |
| 0:46.2 | we talk about Reese James' virtuoso performance in midfield |
| 0:49.3 | for Capital Letters, the Blues. |
| 0:52.8 | Yeah? |
| 0:53.9 | I'm resting the whole world champions thing for a bit. Right, okay. But it'll come back. Why the capital letters? I think that was more of the subtext of that. I'm going to say probably not intentional. It was more typo. I wonder if he's sad, you know, and he's trying to emphasize the script. My subconscious is communicating. Yes, you've capitalised the blues because you're trying to... |
| 1:12.3 | No, no, no, cut that. |
| 1:16.0 | Something got cut there. |
| 1:18.2 | Can you guess the name and age of a stranger? |
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