Manchester City beat Chelsea, Guardiola’s modern football and JJ’s Benfica Barcelona jaunt
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Joe Devine, Jon Mackenzie, JJ Bull and Liam Tharme are here to talk about the football.
Manchester City’s tweaks that saw them beat Chelsea, what Pep Guardiola thinks modern football now is and JJ’s fantastic trip to Lisbon to run the rule over Benfica and Barcelona were all discussed in the latest Tifo Football podcast.
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine and produced by Steve Hankey.
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| 0:33.9 | The Athletic FC Podcast Network. |
| 0:44.5 | The The Athletic FC Podcast Network Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:46.3 | I'm Joe Devine. |
| 0:49.6 | And I'm delighted today to be joined by a number of different people. |
| 0:51.5 | One of them is JJ Bull. |
| 0:52.4 | Hello. |
| 0:53.5 | Hello there, right? |
| 0:54.0 | Yes. |
| 1:44.7 | Yeah? Tanned? No, not really. It was lightning and thunder and rain. And that was just the football. Correct. Yeah. John McKenzie. Hello. There he is, popping up like a creature that lives underground, borrowed within his own misery. And here he is, all the way from the Athletic Football Tactics podcast and the newsroom, a round of applause. It's Liam Farram. Thanks, Joe. All right. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Plus Steve Hankies here. Hello. There he is, yeah. So much on the docket today to get through and discuss. I'm on the wrong. I'm not looking at the docket. Hold on. Oh, here it is. The docket. No, no, we've got it now, Liam. Not to worry. Our Man City back. And for how long we discussed that at the beginning there? The race between me and JJ that took place over the summer that one person forgot and then the story that was resolved during the body of the podcast |
| 1:50.5 | here. Can't wait for you to hear about that bit. I forgot it had happened. Pep Wadiola's view on |
| 1:55.4 | modern football was discussed. Is it happening now? I think yes. And what will it be in the future? |
| 2:02.7 | We scrabble around looking for some conclusions. |
| 2:05.0 | Maybe we found some. |
| 2:05.9 | I don't know. |
| 2:06.2 | You'll find out as we get there. |
| 2:07.9 | Fans of British politics will enjoy today's episode. |
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