Hello and welcome to the Tifo Football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm delighted to be joined today by J.J. Ball.

Hello, Joe. John McKenzie. Hi Joe. And Nick Miller. I nearly called you Nick Griffin, but that is not your name.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. A deep cut right wingwing political joke there. On election week of all weeks, what a dangerous time to have such Freudian slips. And it's not Freudian because there's nothing about you. Just to be absolutely clear, there's nothing about you that reminds me of Nick Griffin, apart from the fact that you share the first name that he also has.

Thanks, Joe. That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said about me. And what a perfect way to introduce you to this podcast. You're here partly to talk about Nottingham Forest and some other things that we've got, but you're also here to talk about your book. We're going to do that a little bit later. Who owns football? We're going to find out. It's not Nick Griffin. certainly not

what have we got here we've got

oh nottingham forest

maranacus and edu

the triangle of news happening there. We're going to talk a little bit about that and sporting global sporting directors. Yergen Klopp comes up in that conversation as well. That was a fun, fun little bit. And that leads us on to nick doesn't it a conversation about

notting and forest yes it does yes that's right other than that we've got uh bornmouth how's

ariola done it that's what we ask and we also i believe we answer although i can't say for sure

because i did check out just 5% of that little section there just in in the middle of your deep explanation of how they did. That's pretty good going in our general conversations. I'd say that's pretty good going, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. And then we talk about who owns football next book, and we don't actually answer that question, but we do sort of attempt to answer it as an unanswerable question, and that a fascinating bit of time there as well as playing the Midway game and points are bad. I'm doing a bit of etymology. Oh, we etymologised keep on trucking later on which JJ has tried to claim for a nation and we don't think that's allowable. But you'll hear that. You don't live there.

Hmm?

Huh?

You don't live there?

No, neither do you.

You live in Walthamstow.

Where else to start than with a triumvirate? Is that a three? A triangle? A triangle of three different things.

A trifecta. A trifector. I'll just say triangle. A triangle of three things. Nottingham Forest. One thing.

Edu. Edu's another thing. Yeah, Edu. And then Maranakis. He kind of comes in the, maybe it's more of a line, you know? Anyway, the point is, what I'm saying here is that Adu, who was the sporting director of Arsenal, as you'll all know, surprisingly, is leaving his post to take on a sort of a little bit amorphous role at the moment across a collection of Maranacchus's clubs. Maranacchus being the owner of Nottingham Forest. So we're going to talk a little bit about that. We've got Nick here for the for the forest angle, if such a thing exists. Before we crack on, though, here's a little bit from David Ornstein and James McNicholas on the situation. As I'm reading, contracts yet to be signed, and the exact role still needs

to be finalised, but there is an agreement in place that will see Edou take on a fresh challenge

under the Greek businessman. It's anticipated the proposals which will include Edu, 46, assuming

responsibility for adding to the collection of sides and growing the operation. Maranacosone's

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