Matt Forde: Football, Comedy & Politics
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Comedian, radio presenter and football & politics enthusiast Matt Forde joins Tifo to discuss Nottingham Forest, Brian Clough, footballing politicians and comedians and his thoughts on the Qatar World Cup.
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| 0:32.7 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | Today I was delighted to be joined by Matt Ford. Matt Ford is an |
| 0:43.2 | excellent comedian. He's also a comedy writer. He's a radio presenter. He hosts a fantastic podcast, |
| 0:49.4 | well, a couple of podcasts, but the one I listen to is the political party podcast where he interviews lots of really |
| 0:55.8 | interesting guests from UK politics. He's also an excellent impressionist. And he hosts |
| 1:01.6 | rock and roll football on absolute radio, which many of you, I'm sure, will have listened to |
| 1:05.8 | before, maybe in the car on the way to a football match. So I was really delighted to have Matt in. |
| 1:12.9 | We talked about his love of Nottingham Forest and his love of UK politics, |
| 1:18.6 | or more specifically the Labour Party, |
| 1:20.9 | how those two things sort of coalesce and combine with each other. |
| 1:24.9 | We talked a little bit about Qatar towards the end. |
| 1:30.1 | And yeah, it was a great conversation. I really enjoyed it and I'm very appreciative to Matt for making time and coming in |
| 1:35.6 | because at the moment he's very busy. He's on the road with his new show, Brexit pursued by a bear, |
| 1:40.8 | which he describes in greater detail than I can later in the show. I'm actually going |
| 1:47.1 | to see it next week at the South Bank Centre. But for those of you who might be interested to go |
| 1:51.2 | and watch it, he's a very funny guy, and he is in Darlington. He's in Hexham, Bedford, London, |
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