Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and today I'm joined by Alex Stewart.

Hello, Joe. Hello, how are you? I'm all right. How are you?

Yeah, pretty good. Pretty good. Looking forward to talking about shirt numbers with you.

I suppose whatever works for you. Yes, exactly. So, listen, we released a video on the Tifa YouTube

channel today as you're listening to this, all about shirt numbers and why in different countries,

different positions traditionally have different shirt numbers. Now, we know that nowadays, a lot of

players just pick whatever number they

want and the numbers don't really correspond to their positions on the pitch. But there is a grand

history behind the reason why they originally did and why they were originally different. So

this is what we're going to discuss today. How exciting. Before we do that, though, I would like to say that you

should check out The Athletic. If you visit Theathletic.com.com.com.com.com forward slash Tifo 90. That's the

numbers 90. Tifo 90. You can get a wait for it. Wait for it. It's a new one, Alex. Can you guess what it is?

I'm going to guess that it's a

90 day free trial. It is. Imagine that. You know how many months that is? 90 days? Well,

I mean, it depends on how many days there are in those months. That's exactly the right answer.

And I was really hoping you would say three, so I could throw that in your face, but you threw it in

mind first. Those who throw the first stones, hmm, suffer the largest consequences. Hey, it's three

months. That's three months for free, just long enough to forget that you aren't paying for it and

for it to turn over and for you to start paying for it. Oh, they've done it again. Not really, but

listen, you get three

months to, uh, to, uh, God, who needs more of a free trial than that? I mean, you know, I knew within day one, hey, I'm going to have, I'm going to pay for this for the rest of my life, even though they gave it to me for free. But for you, 90 day free trial is excellent. And we're going to talk about why in the middle of this episode as well because because this uh the shirt

number's um 90 day free trial is excellent and we're going to talk about why in the middle of this

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