Hello and welcome to the Tifo football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm now joined by J.J. Bull the bullet. Hello, JJ.

Hello, Joe Devine. I'm remote. We're all remote. We're all remote today because it's deadline day, big day in football land, and the wonderful journalists of the Athletic

are using our video studio today to live stream all of the large events occurring.

That's right, listeners, you might not know that although you can enjoy TIFO football on

YouTube, TIFO IRL on YouTube, You can also enjoy The Athletic UK on YouTube,

with there are various often video versions of some of the excellent podcasts that are recorded

by the Athletics UK network. And occasionally, if you're lucky, you'll catch a glimpse of the

wonderful Adam Leventhal. So it is worth popping over there to the Athletic UK's YouTube channel.

Now, I'll come back to talk about the Athletic more later.

I've preemptively entered a plug mode. But, of course, before I do that, I should say, Ah, gooden tag, Herrs, blah. We gaidstel? Hmm, Guten Morgan, Herr Devine. Me case is good. Me case is good. That's correct, Seb. It is a Guten Morgan, because there's a lot of football for us to talk about today, including Ed Woodward, finally stepping down as the executive vice chairman of Manchester United to be replaced by Richard Arnold. We'll come to discuss that in today's episode, as well as Frank Lampard becoming the Everton manager. that's, you know, in some ways I'm glad he finally got a job, so he wasn't linked with every possible job that has ever come up ever. So that's going to be nice. Get the man off the carousel, that's what I say. Afcon happened as well. The quarterfinals sets up some very exciting semifinals for Wednesday and Thursday, so we'll be talking about those and looking forward to that. And of course, a bunch of transfers have happened and or might happen and or might not happen after we talk about them. So we will be doing that today as well as coming finally to discuss

Canada, ha, da, da, da, da, Canada, having a good time of things. At the moment, they beat the USA.

They beat the USA.

Not a big deal or anything, but they did beat the USA.

Very funny stuff.

And if you like very funny stuff, then maybe you shouldn't visit the Athletic.

Because the Athletic does have some funny stuff,

but most of the stuff is just very good and very informational

stuff. I wouldn't categorize it as primarily very funny. I wouldn't primarily describe it as funny.

Its main function is to provide you, the user, with incredible insight into football, your teams,

or other teams, or other sports, all of the best journalists.

And guess what?

You get a 30-day free trial to try that out.

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