Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I am Joe Devine and I'm joined now by

Seb Stafferblor. Hi Joe. Hello. How are you? I'm very well. I'm okay. I'm okay. It's

miserable outside so it's dampened my mood a little bit. But this was fun. Sure. Well, it's lovely

inside because

we've just been speaking to raffa honnstein one of the coolest guys and one of the most

interesting actually we um obviously we've theoretically the bunder's leaguer is a couple of

weeks away from from restarting and we um we found out about all the sort of the mechanics behind that

and logistics involved.

And it's just a much more complex situation than it would be in England.

And actually we were talking this morning, Joe, about this on the phone, about how by going first, the Bundesliga, obviously has a potential to attract a very, very large audience on television, but also runs the risk of putting themselves front and the centre of a sort of footballing vulgarity, if that

makes sense, the kind of football's belief that it should insert itself into the, into the

conversation. This is why it was useful to talk to Raffa because some much needed context I feel that we got from Raffer.

Firstly, being, you know, the main thing of interest that I think he said in that regard was to discuss the fact that all companies, you know, whether you're a car factory or you are a restaurant, are making preparations for reopening at the earliest opportunity because they're screwed, right? So it's an interesting, and we and we touch on the idea that football sort of gets a negative press around these things.

Other things we discuss, the meetings, April 30th, May the 6th, the German government are going to be discussing the return of Bundesliga.

So it's possible that we will know by the time you're listening to this, it's possible that we won't. But the idea is for the Bundesliga to return at some

point in May. We talk about the motivation. We talk about what the difficulties are. We talk about

how the testing works. What happens if three or four players test positive for the coronavirus,

could that derail the whole league? We also talk about the difference between the Premier League and the Bundesliga and also

the, you know, from a non-medical perspective, the responses of the UK and the German

government and why it's possible for the Bundesliga to potentially start in the middle

of May, while Project Restart, the Premier League sort of dubbed name for bringing its football matches

back, is looking

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