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Tifo Football Podcast

Deadlines & Darts with Dele - with Jonathan Northcroft

Tifo Football Podcast

The Athletic

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

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Seb Stafford-Bloor is joined by Jonathan Northcroft, to discuss his book Deadlines and Darts with Dele; Jonathan's diary from following England at the 2018 World Cup - celebrating England's rebirth in Russia and other unexpected tales.


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0:30.1

Hello, and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. I'm Joe, and today I'm just here to introduce

0:35.4

content editor, Seb Stap of Bloor,

0:44.9

who last week spoke to Jonathan Norcroft about the book that he released a retrospective on the 2018 World Cup,

0:47.1

which really does sound fantastic. I haven't had a chance to read it yet,

0:50.1

but I'm definitely going to, after listening to this interview.

0:53.3

Tifo Tactics will be back as of next week.

0:55.5

And yeah, without further ado, here's Seb and Jonathan. Thank you very much for listening.

1:00.2

Hello, welcome to the latest TIFO podcast. So it's going to be the latest in our series

1:06.1

of almost far-side chats with recently published authors. And today I'm really happy to be able to welcome the Sunday Times as Jonathan Northcroft to the pub to talk about his, well, not quite World Cup Dari, but almost sort of World Cup account, deadlines and darts with Delhi.

1:22.5

Hi, Johnny. How are you?

1:24.2

Yeah, I'm good, thanks. How are you?

1:26.2

Not too bad. I thought, I mean, it's an interesting one to start with.

1:30.0

Obviously, going to a World Cup as a Broadsheet journalist is a huge undertaking.

1:35.9

So why did you commit yourself to so much extra work while you were there?

1:40.9

Yeah, I didn't really understand when I started

1:45.4

what became the book but it started off

1:48.0

as a blog exactly what it was going to entail

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