More Pep, do Arsenal & Chelsea have a chance? And ball magnetism in video games
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Liverpool convincingly beat Pep Guardiola's Manchester City over the weekend, so the team gang gather to discuss the latest, do Arsenal and Chelsea have a chance or have Liverpool got it all locked up already? Why Rocket League is actually more like real football than other football simulation video games, what made Mr Blobby so entertaining, and a whole bunch of topics that didn't quite make it onto the docket.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Tifo Football Podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm Joe Devine. |
| 0:07.8 | And I'm delighted to be joined today, as per usual, by JJ Ball. |
| 0:12.3 | Hello, and John McKenzie. |
| 0:14.2 | Did you just warm up your mouth before this after we've been talking for an hour and a half? |
| 0:20.4 | You can never warm your mouth enough, John. Okay. So much on the docket today, wasn't there. A hell of a lot on the docket to get through. Of course, we didn't get through all of it. Of course we didn't. We never do. We had a surprise arrival of like pick something off the docket. That was quite fun. That's true. That was good. I like that. |
| 0:57.0 | We talked about the docket on the docket. Yeah, it was self-aware. It was a sort of meta-docket kind of situation. Things we definitely did talk about. What's the problem with PEP? We spoke a little bit about that last week with JJ. John's back from his holiday, so we got his take on it as well. After a virile weekend of losses all around Europe actually which is something that we touched on. We didn't talk about. We didn't pick that topic. We didn't pick |
| 1:00.7 | that topic. We didn't pick that topic. We touched on it. Of course, what we did talk about was |
| 1:03.1 | Arsenal and Chelsea though. Are they still in with a shout of winning the title? We had that |
| 1:07.8 | conversation. Did we talk about Chelsea? Sort of. |
| 1:10.9 | I tried. |
| 1:11.9 | We definitely talked about Mr. Blobby. |
| 1:14.2 | Yeah, that's true. |
| 1:15.2 | I like him a lot. |
| 1:16.7 | He's pretty good. |
| 1:17.9 | And we spent quite a long time talking about video games. |
| 1:20.3 | Not just Rocket League, but also FIFA, you know, EA, FIFA EA. |
| 1:24.0 | But it was related to current day football. |
| 1:26.6 | It was related. |
| 1:27.2 | Football manager was mentioned. |
| 1:28.4 | It wasn't the tangent. |
| 1:29.8 | It sounds like it's going to be. |
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