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Tifo Football Podcast

Man City's Imperious Defence and a Convincing Chelsea

Tifo Football Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Joe, Seb, and JJ reflect on the Champions League semi-finals, featuring an imperious defensive performance by Manchester City, the dairy way to express your appreciation of Phil Foden, and some spectacular antics from a particularly petulant PSG. The other semi saw a solid and convinving Chelsea win, thanks in no small part to a dramatic capitulation from Real Madrid. The Madridistas were not amused! (we were). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the T-fo football podcast, I'm Joe Devine and I'm now joined by Seb Stafford Blore.

0:14.7

Hello, Joe Devine. Oh ho, Guten Tag, here's Stafford Blore. This has, uh...

0:23.7

Hello?

0:24.1

No. Brutal, okay. And also joined by the Big Bowl, it's JJ Bowl. Hello, you're

0:34.5

Seb actually going. No, no, I'm still here, but we just go with

0:37.9

silences. I'm so confused. He's just playing the comedic note, just a little

0:43.8

too long there, but that's fine, he's learning, no big deal. We're here today to talk about

0:50.3

European football, a quick note. We record this on a Thursday and this releases on a Friday,

0:56.2

so we don't actually know who's gone into the the Europa League final, but what about that

1:02.4

Roman turnaround, JJ, hey? Oh, when Francesco Totti came in as a substitute

1:08.4

through the roof, like Batman and Batman Returns, I was surprised, but it made for excellent

1:14.9

television. It's a surprise, but delighted. Yeah, we've no idea what happened, so I can't

1:21.5

talk about that, but I hope you've enjoyed watching those games. If you did, what we did

1:26.2

talk about was the Manchester City's, the PSGs, and we talked about the Chelsea's and the Real

1:30.7

Madrid's, and it was very exciting. We've got a Champions League final, all English,

1:35.5

an all-English Champions League final, what, you know, there you go, that's a thing.

1:40.4

So we talked about that, and it was, it was, it was good fun, wasn't it? What did we talk about,

1:45.9

said? Well, what came up in today's episode? Keep them tenderised. Well, we did quite a lot

1:50.2

about Real Madrid and Chelsea and Manchester City, PSG. We spent some time talking about PSG's

1:56.7

massive tantrum, whether clean and baffey might have helped them avoid that massive tantrum.

2:01.9

I would have meant to pet Guardiola. We all made ice cream noises over Phil Foden.

2:08.1

We'll be explained later in the podcast, yeah. And then you rather really cut me off ahead of

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