De Zerbi's first Spurs game, West Ham's huge improvement & how good is Rio Ngumoha?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K 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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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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| 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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