Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and today I'm joined by Seb Stafford Bloor.

Hello Joe Devine. Hello, Seb. Seb and I are delighted today that Alex is unavailable so we don't have to talk to him.

But someone else is here in his stead and that's the real reason we're delighted and that person

is the wonderful the marvellous the athletics nick miller hello hey nick miller how are you

very good heavy shoes to heavy shoes big shoes to phil but you know big and heavy

because as we all know one of alex's legs is shorter than the other. So one of the shoes is actually very heavy. Has a thick platform at the bottom just to stabilize his height. But now, you're right. Big shoes to fail because he's a big part of this podcast. And I don't know if you've listened much before, Nick, but I've got a quick checklist here of things that we're looking for you to replace that Alex won't be providing for us today. You ready? Yep, go ahead. Go for it. Yep. Don't make any jokes because Alex isn't funny. So that's the first thing. We want you to be dry and to kind of miss the point of what we're saying most of the time because that's where the humour lies, right? Okay, just put me a second. I just need to delete a lot of notes here.

Yeah, okay, right.

Quickly deleting those notes.

The other thing is I want a very accurate tactical analysis,

and if it's not about tactics, I don't want you to talk.

I'm deleting even more notes, just kind of standing on a black page now.

And the final one is I need you to

exhibit the kind

of smugness that you only get

from having a famous parent, okay?

And just basically

a sense that you belong here

and that it's actually kind of annoying that we're here.

Yeah, I can do that.

My father isn't particularly famous but I can certainly fake that. Okay, great. Well, that's good. I think you're going to do a good job. We've already recorded it. Nick did a really good job. Also, by the way, if you like other people who do really good jobs, then you should visit theathletic.com forward slash Tifo,

where you can find all of the best writing about football on the internet available for your perusal.

Whether you're a Fulham supporter or a Manchester City supporter,

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