Italy are Out! TikTok, Time Travel & Buying a Football Club
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode of the Tifo Football Podcast, we have a new host! Iain Macintosh, Lord of the Games, and JJ Bull discuss all the drama surrounding last week’s World Cup Qualifiers, Gareth Bale’s future, TikTok, Time Travel, and what would you do if you bought a football club.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm not Joe Devine. Joe Devine made a joke on stage about another man's wife and he is out for the foreseeable future. I'm Ian McIntosh and welcome to the Tifo Football podcast. On the show today, most of the international football, the bits that we might know about. Plus, some other stuff. |
| 0:23.2 | And with me in the studio to discuss it all, it's the nicest man in pop. |
| 0:27.1 | It's JJ Bull. |
| 0:28.2 | Hi, JJ. |
| 0:29.2 | Hello. |
| 0:30.4 | Hello. |
| 0:31.3 | Good weekend? |
| 0:32.6 | Yeah, I didn't watch much of the football. |
| 0:35.0 | But enough to do this podcast. |
| 0:36.7 | That's all we need. Also with me in the studio is no one. Sebs in Germany, Alex is at an Al-Sanctuary. There's no one else here, but that's okay. It means that we can play fast and loose with the rules. We can do whatever we want. And with that power, we all discuss Italy out of the World Cup. Gariff Bale, people really don't like him. Do they really not like him? People in Wales love him. People in, yeah. I quite like Garys Biel. In Spain, they don't. On a population comparison, I would say more people in Spain than where. Anyway, we'll talk about that. when we get there. We'll also talk about England because we kind of got to, but stick around because we're |
| 1:15.5 | going to discuss how to run a football club and more pertinently how not to run a football club |
| 1:20.7 | and also how we would run a football club. We'd run it like a business, a well-run business, |
| 1:27.3 | a business like the Athletic. |
| 1:29.8 | And the athletic is in the cool hands and the warm embrace of the New York Times. |
| 1:35.7 | Do you subscribe to the Athletic? You really, really should. Do you know why you should subscribe |
| 1:40.2 | to the Athletic? Because somebody's got to pay for word of, because best sports |
| 1:44.5 | journalism by the best sports journalists, you need it in your life. And you know what? It's not even |
| 1:50.1 | that much money. I don't know how much because I'm new here. I usually do a different podcast, |
| 1:55.2 | but it's not much money if you're a new subscriber and you go to theathletic.com forward slash TIFO. |
| 2:02.3 | Theathletic.com forward slash Tifo. |
| 2:04.6 | Do it right now. |
| 2:05.3 | Don't do it right now because like this |
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