Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I am your host, Joe Devine, and I'm just here to introduce today's episode. We did something a little bit different. I spoke to James Montague, who's a writer, author, regular TIFO contributor. I wouldn't normally do an introduction like this, but I'm just here to tell you that today I had a bit of an audio mishap, and I recorded

myself at a slightly lower audio quality than I normally would. Don't know what happened

there, but unfortunately I can't fix it. I'm very disappointed because a person I think is a wonderful

episode. It's always a pleasure to speak to James. He's a fascinating guy with the most fascinating stories in football journalism,

and I hope you will agree.

Everything is audible, so there's no problems there.

It's just a little bit of a bugbear of mine.

Mainly I'm here to complain at you about a mistake I made and also apologize.

So, sorry about that.

But you really won't notice after five minutes.

Next week, audio levels and quality will be back to its best, which is pretty good.

And yeah, I hope you enjoy the episode.

Thank you very much for downloading and see you again next week.

When we will be doing Brighton, which I think we've said we're doing next week for the last three weeks.

We will be doing Brighton next week.

Here's James.

Actually, here's me and then James.

Hello, and welcome to the TIFO football podcast.

I am Joe Devine, and I am delighted to be joined today, nay thrilled to be joined by Mr James Montague. Hello James.

Good morning. How are you doing? I'm okay. I should say for people listening, James is currently at his home in Serbia.

In Belgrade, yeah, yeah. That is where you live. I nearly thought I said that.

Well, yeah, we'd like to keep down the download though, you know. Okay, yeah. And that's right, isn't it? That is where you live, I nearly. That is... Well, yeah, yeah, we'd like to keep that on the download, though, you know.

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