Football Tactics with Michael Cox (Zonal Marking)
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Today, Alex and Joe are joined by the fabulous Michael Cox (of The Athletic) to answer your tactical questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I am Joe Devine and this podcast is supported by The Athletic. The Athletic is home to the best coverage of your club by a world-class team of writers, including many of your favourites from across the Premier League. Get reading now with your, indeed, Alex gestures at Michael over there. |
| 0:23.1 | Get reading now with your 30-day free trial by visiting theathletic.com. |
| 0:26.8 | at UK forward slash TIFO and getting 50% off. |
| 0:30.0 | If you sign up before the end of August, the athletic, the new home of football writing |
| 0:36.6 | and new home to Michael Cox, who was our guest today. |
| 0:39.3 | Thank you so much for coming, Michael. |
| 0:40.6 | Thanks for inviting me, Joe. Cheers. |
| 0:42.1 | How are you doing? |
| 0:43.6 | I'm good. I'm pleased to have football back. |
| 0:46.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.3 | A combination of the new job and just, you know, how you feel every summer, like I get bored of the transfer stuff and the speculation and stuff and just keen to watch matches. |
| 0:58.3 | So, yeah. |
| 0:59.0 | So you had a good weekend then, watching the football? |
| 1:01.2 | Yeah, I was at Bournemouth, Sheffield United on Saturday afternoon. |
| 1:05.2 | Okay. |
| 1:06.9 | So doing the three o'clock game, you can't really watch the other, you know, the televised games properly. Yeah. And then obviously watched both the Sunday games. So, yeah, a good weekend. Okay. And Alex Stewart is here also. Hello. Hello. How's it going? Good. Did you watch the football? No. Okay. Well, that's a great start, isn't it? Not when it went out. Retrospectively, I've watched some football. Well, today's episode, we are answering various tactical questions that have been sent in by the viewers. We're delighted to have Michael here to help us with this. Michael, also, you have your new role at the Athletic, which has started in the last few weeks how's |
| 1:44.5 | that all going good yeah it's going good your pieces have been amazing by the way i've really |
| 1:49.6 | really enjoyed reading them thank you very much yeah i mean uh it was cool i mean a few of us |
| 1:54.5 | started kind of three weeks before launch date so we had we had a few weeks to kind of get some |
| 1:58.6 | good content up for the first week but uh yeah it's |
| 2:02.0 | it's been really exciting to be part of and uh hopefully if people have logged on they see that |
| 2:07.6 | there's you know a slightly different type of story that has gone up we tried to you know today's |
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