Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm delighted to be joined today by John McKenzie. Hi John. Hi Joe. Yes. And to my left here, two fabulous guests as ordinary as as ordinarily here. Not ordinary person, but as is ordinarily here. It's Seb Stafford. Hi, Seb. Hi, Jay, that was really well done. Thank you. Thank you very much. Very smooth. And we're all, I'm sure, I can speak for all of us, delighted to welcome Mr Michael Bailey, the Athletics Norwich City writer and during the tournament spending a lot of time with TIFO Michael. Yes, I'm just here. Just loitering.

You're just loitering.

It's working out well for you, isn't it?

Yeah, well, here I am. It took you five days, six days. What day is it? Seven. It's day seven. Even worse. Well, there we go. Michael Bailey's here, and we're pleased about that. lots to discuss today we've just watched

Argentina win a game

so that's interesting

Australia won all game also very very that. Lots to discuss today. We've just watched Argentina win a game. So that's interesting.

Australia won all game. Also very, very impressive that was. I'll come to talk about that.

France too. One Denmark. And of course, the Saudi Arabia polling game happened earlier too.

We're going to ask Michael some general questions about the tournament a little bit later on.

And we're going to play points are bad. What was your favorite thing about the day, John? My favorite thing about the day was hanging out with Michael Bailey. Right. That's, I mean, I tell you what, the perfect segue is available there, because if you want to hang out with Michael Bailey, albeit in written form, then you can do that by visiting theathletic.com forward slash Tifo, theathletic.com forward slash Tifo, where you can find all of Michael's excellent writing. And if you're not a Norwich City fan or don't care about them at all, there are plenty of other writers who write about other teams, although you will be missing out on Michael's superb work, I have to say. It's fine.

Yeah.

Check in from now and then, even if you're not a Norwich fan, though, I should say, yeah? Obviously. Obviously. And if you're a supporter of the US men's national team, you'll find Michael Bailey talking about Josh Sargent a lot. And we'll speak about him later, won't we? Oh, yes, please. Yes, please, exactly.

Yes, please, exactly.

Josh Sergeant, World Cup correspondent.

Official title.

Is he?

Yeah, yeah, no, that's right.

I didn't know that. please. Yes, please, exactly. The Athletics, Josh Sergeant, World Cup correspondent.

Official title.

Is it?

Yeah, yeah, no, that's free.

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