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

Yes, you are. Hello there. Hi. You're here? Mm-hmm. Great stuff. Also, mm-hmm. Goodntaugh, Herr Stefford Blois.

Vigatee. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Mm- My gates is good. Ah, fantastic. Now, listen, lots of exciting football to watch, no, that we did watch this weekend. Chelsea Spurs, that was a game of football. Also, Man United won late drama at Old Trafford. Norwich, winning two games on the bounce there, the Tifo Curse,

as I Live and Breathe. Southampton also held Manchester City, very exciting for Alex here,

about as exciting as you can get. Also, other games, but I tell you what, AFCOM was fun this weekend.

The knockout stages have, of course, begun, and we'll be talking a little bit about that, including, goodness me, what fun this weekend. The knockout stages have of course begun and we'll be talking a

little bit about that including goodness me what fun I had watching the penalty shootout between

Burkina Faso and Gabon. Watch the whole game. I've never known you to be quite so engaged in a football

matches you were in that. You were all over the WhatsApp group. You were really enjoying the football. I loved it. Do you know what? Delicious. I was licking it up like a lovely ice cream. But we'll come back and talk about that. I thought someone had stolen your phone, actually. Well, you know. Have I muted the WhatsApp group? Because I don't think I've got any of those. Seb describes our personal WhatsApp as the WhatsApp group. Oh, I'm not in that. I throw a lot of, well, you can't be in someone else's DM, can you? I mean, you can. But we'll talk about that later. Well, I tell you what? You know what? It's a bit like being in a DM there? The Athletic. that's right, because people send you information that it really feels like it's a secret. Off the book stuff. But it's not. It's just well researched by good journalists. Theathletic.com forward slash Tifo. Theathletic.com forward slash Tifo. Imagine having a friend at every football game who would text you things and say,

this is happening. This is happening. You'd feel so in the know. ITK. Yeah? You don't need that.

You just need the athletic. And you can get a 30-day free trial. Try out that friend for free.

The athletic.com forward slash Tifo. Yes. Yes, indeed. Well, that's all for today's introduction. Lots of football to get through. Yes, yes indeed.

Well, that's all for today's introduction.

Lots of football to get through, so we'll crack on.

I will now leave you in the warm hands and the cool embrace of penalty shootouts in the African Cup of Nations.

Thank you. Yes, yes, welcome.

Now, before we get to Afcon, let's do a little bit of the Premier League.

Chelsea, 2, nil Spurs there, Seb.

A bit disappointing for you and the other Spurs fans out there,

but it was probably on the cast, wasn't it?

Because one team's better than the other.

Hey, one team is much better than the other.

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