England's perfect record, are Newcastle in crisis & is Fabregas the next top coach?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
England’s perfect World Cup qualifying record, The Republic of Ireland’s miraculous entry into the playoffs, a potential crisis looming at Newcastle United and the promising beginning of Cesc Fabregas the manager at Como were all discussed in the latest Tifo Football podcast…
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features Jon Mackenzie/Alex Barker, Reuben Pinder & Jacob Whitehead and is produced by Steve Hankey.
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00:00 - The Art Of Intro
03:22 - England’s perfect World Cup qualifying campaign
11:30 - Marcus Rashford’s revival
15:54 - The Republic of Ireland make the playoffs!
19:00 - Troy Parrott & strikers honing their craft
21:00 - Joe’s Irish passport application & Ireland’s World Cup record
23:45 - Norway will definitely be there!
25:15 - for Scotland, it’s still up in the air.
26:37 - A crisis for Newcastle United
27:20 - Magpies, Parrots & Parakeets
30:00 - back to the Newcastle crisis, if it’s even a crisis
37:12 - The Separation Game Part 1
39:26 - A break
39:29 - The Separation Game Part 2
42:58 - The Fabregas revolution at Como
51:18 - Points Are Bad
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine. And today I'm delighted to be joined by Jacob Whitehead. |
| 0:15.3 | Hello, that's a lot of energy. I enjoyed that. Yeah. It comes out of nowhere, doesn't it? |
| 0:19.6 | Just, what a professional. It's not real. |
| 0:21.6 | Also, John McKenzie. |
| 0:23.1 | Hello. |
| 0:23.6 | How's it going? |
| 0:24.4 | It's going okay. Lovely to see you. Lovely to see you too. And Ruben Pinder's here. Hello. How are you? Yeah, good. Fantastic. Good to be back. Also, Steve's here. Hello. Yeah. You weren't ready for that, Steve, were you? You had to move your mic down. |
| 0:36.3 | You mix it up. Sometimes you don't acknowledge I exist. |
| 0:38.4 | Steve doesn't have a microphone like this one if you're watching, which is just a normal microphone. He's got one that's attached to his own head because... Like an air traffic controller. He arrives with it. He wears it to work on the train. Anyway, what do we talk about today? Well, what would Sun Tzu think about England's World Cup qualifying campaign? We did that. |
| 0:56.1 | I don't know if we ever found out what Sun Tzu would think about it, but we certainly did a lot of |
| 0:59.9 | Sun Tzu quotes. Which strikers look like they are to, hmm? Which strikers look like they are |
| 1:06.3 | to the manor born? What does that mean? Jacob said to the manor born in the upcoming show. |
| 1:10.8 | Did you? |
| 1:11.1 | In terms of strikers who just come 18, ready, good to go. And I just found it a very fun. To the manor born. What does that mean? What does that mean? Ovencooked. It's Boris Johnson's oven cooked. To the manor. Does it mean they're ready to be a reference of the manor? this episode. |
| 1:26.6 | Yeah, just sort of... |
| 1:27.4 | It's a nice idea, but I've not heard that. |
| 1:29.4 | Surely it's an argue if he's in a manner in terms to bring charge of the manor. Yeah, just sort of... |
| 1:27.7 | It's a nice idiom. |
| 1:28.5 | I've not heard that. |
| 1:29.4 | Surely it's an Arger if it's in a manor in terms of, you know, |
| 1:32.0 | Argo cooked rather than... |
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