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Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast.

I'm Joe Devine.

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

I'm J.J. Boo.

Your mouth's moving in a funny way.

You don't normally do that.

My mouth move like this? You don't normally do that. Well, I've started doing it recently for fun. That's what Ruben does. I said, I'm Joe Devine. Do you like it? I do, yeah. It's sort of like I'm a cow with some cud or I'm a human with some chewing gum. Yes. And you know how I feel about that. Oh, unwise.

Yeah, very unwise.

Now, also, Ruben Pinders here. Hello. How's it going? Yeah, it's not bad. Fantastic. And do you know who else was here today? Sebstabblemour. Yes, the Sebstabdbler was here today also. I mean, he's not currently here because he's so important, the big fancy, shiny, polished

journalist that he is, that he had to leave halfway through the show to have a photo taken

with other successful journalists. But of course, he does speak like that, doesn't he?

He does actually speak like that. Because of his education. Because of his education.

I feel like the nice difference in the way that Miamind and Seb's careers are,, is that like when he leaves, it's to go to a very cool, fancy. Right. To have a photo taken with David Ornstein. I suspect if I was asked to leave, you'd hear a gunshot shortly after. If you were asked to leave, that would just be the end of it. Can you leave, please? You just wouldn't see me again. Yeah. That's it. You know. No photos.

No one would ever know what happened.

Now, there we go.

Seb was actually here for most of the show. But as I mentioned, he is part of quite an exclusive. I think they were calling it the transfer gang. Was that what they were officially calling it? He definitely didn't deny that. He didn't deny it for sure.

He's part of a transfer gang.

I think it's him and David Ornstein, and that's the whole gang.

Now, what else did we talk about?

Oh, Steve Hanky's here also.

Hello. There he. Yes, there he is. Now, what did we talk about on today's podcast? Well, we start with the thrilling three-all draw between Everton and Manchester City. Is this the moment that City fatally falls short in the title race?

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