Man City's future, Arsenal's new corner routine & who will be relegated?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Manchester City and Chelsea reaching the 2026 FA Cup final, how a new set piece routine sealed victory for Arsenal against Newcastle United, the latest permutations of the Premier League survival battle and Hearts continued push for a historic Scottish title were all discussed in this episode of the Tifo Football podcast.
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features Seb Stafford-Bloor, JJ Bull & Reuben Pinder and is produced by Steve Hankey.
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00:00 - A podcast intro
04:59 - A blue FA Cup final
05:56 - What’s your favourite football kit?
09:05 - back to the FA Cup
13:48 - Man City’s depth options
15:10 - Kompany to Man City post Guardiola?
17:18 - What’s it like in Germany Seb?
26:35 - Who’s going to win the FA Cup?
29:14 - a break
29:15 - The Gunners take down The Magpies
30:05 - Reuben does an impression of Steve
31:13 - THE RONDO
39:21 - The Premier League relegation battle
51:51 - Reuben’s sad personal story
52:44 - Hearts are still on course in Scotland!
57:33 - Points Are Bad
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Joe Devine and today I'm delighted to be joined by JJ Ball. |
| 0:15.9 | Hello! |
| 0:17.5 | All right there's a go. |
| 0:18.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:19.4 | Ruben Pinderers also here. |
| 0:21.1 | Hello, how are you? |
| 0:22.0 | I'm very well, thank you. |
| 0:22.9 | How are you? |
| 0:23.3 | Yeah, good. |
| 0:23.7 | And a fleshy meat bag in my presence, it's Sebastian Rufflenet wearing Stafford Blore. |
| 0:30.4 | Hello, Joe Devine. |
| 0:31.2 | How's it going? |
| 0:31.7 | Okay? |
| 0:32.0 | It's going well. |
| 0:32.9 | Now, here's what we talked about on today's episode of the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:38.4 | Now, instead of talking about the FA Cup, we got distracted by our favourite football kits, |
| 0:42.3 | the best-sized collar, that's a Seb bit, and what I was wearing during Seb's childhood. |
| 0:48.4 | Look out for that bit, it might surprise some of you. |
| 0:51.2 | Now, with City rotating and still progressing to the FA Cup final, we turn our attention |
| 0:55.1 | to the future of City's squad and possible new manager. We have a conversation about that. Because |
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