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

Hello, Joe. John McKenzie. Hi, Joe. Ruben Pinder. And would you look, it's Kyakynak too.

We've got a full house gang, plus

D-Fanky. Hello. There he is. Now, what do we talk about on today's episode? Well, it was the end

of an era across the Premier League this season. That's right, with Manchester City and Liverpool

seeing prominent personnel leaving under tunnels of honour. That's right. We

discuss tunnels of honour what they mean. And could something be named after me? That's right.

Next, I would like a public toilet to be named in my honour, even though I would never use it myself.

That's disgusting. But because of anxiety, you understand, not snobbery. Although I've made it

sound like snobbery, haven't I? But you know what's interesting? Often, snobbery, good mask for anxiety. On the Tunnels of Honor, or Guards of Honor, is they're actually called? And Bernardo Silver, one of the players that we spoke about, it just occurred to me. I was reading Olli Kay's interview with Bernardo Silver recently, and they kind of structured it with a series of important photographs from his time there. And I think they had to give a guard of honour to Liverpool when they won the league during 1920. And Bernardo Silver had a coffee cup in one hand and a water bottle in the other hand to stop himself from clapping because he just really pettily didn't want to clap them. Incredible. But there you go. That's a petty elite sports person right there. Also, I knew he'd been there for a long time, but 1920, good Lord. That's really a century of fun. And here coming on, we have Bernardo Silver. Bernadio Silver. There we go. What do we discuss next? Well, we discussed what may stop people from fully enjoying Pep Guardiola's era due to questions around the owners of Manchester City. And Steve was very nervous during that bit and will be nervous during the edit. But I'm sure he'll manage. I don't know. What was next? Yes, we played a very exciting rondo. It was actually a mammoth rondo. Of course, there were five players involved. But will Alex Barker keep hold of his Rondo crown for longer than just one day? Well, stick around to find out. After that, we're into the drop zone, just like West Ham. We discuss how the irons were cracked and shattered by relegation. Can you shatter iron? I think if you hit it hard enough. Yeah, fair enough.

I think you should go practice. Yeah, I would like to do that. And staying at the bottom,

Leeds weren't there. We talk about their comfortable 14th place, finish post-promotion.

That's actually quite a long and interesting conversation. Yes. Yes. Were you going to say something

else? I was...

Do you know, on yesterday's live stream, I started about three stories, which I immediately stopped. Was that what you're about to do? No? No. Okay. I can do promo for things. Oh, yes, of course. Oh, yes. I've got gigs this week. if you live in Birmingham,

I need to sell tickets

on the 28th of May

at Dead Wax.

Please come and see me

play all my songs I've got gigs this week. If you live in Birmingham, I need to sell tickets on the 28th of May at Dead Wax.

Please come and see me, play all my songs live. They're all hits. Can I say before you do another one that I was in a taxi yesterday and I got chatting to this man. He was telling me that he... Is this a story that you don't want to say? No, no, this is what I'm happy to tell. He was saying he lived in West London and he was a Chelsea fan.

And I said to him, if you could live anywhere, where would you live? And he, to my surprise, he said Birmingham. And I said, oh, okay, I wasn't expecting you to say Birmingham in its lovely place. You could achieve that lovely place. I said, you could move there. He said, I got family here.

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