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Tifo Football Podcast

De Zerbi's first Spurs game, West Ham's huge improvement & how good is Rio Ngumoha?

Tifo Football Podcast

The Athletic

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

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Yet another damaging defeat for Tottenham under new boss Roberto De Zerbi, a resurgent West Ham United and Liverpool’s rising star Rio Ngumoha were all discussed in this episode of the Tifo Football podcast.


This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features Jack Pitt-Brooke, JJ Bull & Kaya Kaynak and is produced by Steve Hankey.


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NICOLAS TUCAT / Contributor / AFP via GettyImages



00:00 - an absolutely fine intro

05:40 - More relegation strife for Tottenham


24:28 - Impressive Granit Xhaka & Sunderland 


28:14 - Would De Zerbi stay in the Championship?


31:15 - a break 


31:17 - THE RONDO


37:43 - Resurgent West Ham!


48:44 - Who’s going to go down? Who knows?!


52:03 - Rio Ngumoha is great


57:50 - Kaya’s film review


1:07:25 - Points Are Bad


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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Athletic FC

0:03.3

Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast.

0:10.5

I'm Joe Devine.

0:12.1

And today I'm delighted to be joined by JJ Ball.

0:16.1

Hello.

0:17.0

Kayakina.

0:18.0

I'm totally fine.

0:19.2

Everything's fine.

0:20.4

For the second day in a row, he's fine.

0:22.2

It's good to know that, isn't it?

0:23.3

And Jack Pitteth Brook. Hello, Joe. How's it going? You're okay? I'm great. How are you? I'm absolutely fine. In fact, I'm better than fine. I'm good. Good's better than fine, isn't it? Yeah, it's one up.

0:35.5

Yeah.

0:35.6

One up.

0:36.0

What's up after that?

0:36.8

Very good.

0:37.5

Very good.

0:38.2

Pretty good.

0:38.9

Then great.

0:39.4

Pretty good, then very good.

0:40.9

Pretty good, then very good. Good's better than fine, isn't it? Yeah, it's one up. What's up after that?

0:38.1

Very good. Very good.

0:38.8

Pretty good.

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