Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I have one minute 30 seconds to record this intro. Today I'm joined by JJ Ball.

Hello. John McKenzy. John McKenzie. Yeah. Sorry. And Sebastian Stafferblower all the way from Fein Deutschland.

Hello, Joe. Yes, hello.

Now, so much on the docket for today. I notice I keep talking about the docket. But the docket's just so full. It's stuffed. It's heaving. Yeah? You can barely move for the scale of the docket. And what is on the docket this week? Well, there's a whole Premier League section. we talk about Arsenal, a realistic title credentials or not,

seven John with some slightly different... And what is on the docket this week? Well, there's a whole Premier League section. We talk about Arsenal, a realistic title credentials or not.

Seb and John with some slightly different opinions there.

We talk about a comfortable Liverpool win over Brentford and the discrepancy in player quality.

A mosey on down to Manchester United to talk about just how bad the squad is.

It versus, of course, previous legendary squads.

So it's all comparative guys. Brighton, they're good. They had a good transfer window,

good start to the season. We also talk about the Bundesliga's opening weekend. We play the

Midway game. We very quickly nod along to the championship where I make a fool of myself

and cheese. And then we talk about transfers and we make a fool of myself and cheese.

And then we talk about transfers and we play the points of bad game.

And that's all the time I have to record this intro.

So, uh, uh, let's begin with Arsenal, shall we, I think, because they had a very solid 2-0 victory over Villa at Villa Park.

But, Seb, let me come to you first, because I, for one, thought they showed their title credentials in that game,

in the sense that they were a bit mere at times, but then they won it comfortably enough against a very good team in Astorville. They are very good team, Joe, and they're a very good team who beat them at the Emirates last season. And full disclosure, I watched this game three days after it took place. I knew all the narratives. Charlatan. Yeah, I knew the score.

I knew the narratives. I knew what everybody else thought going into it. And I was kind of expecting something different, which was a really patchy Arsenal, got lucky. And it kind of didn't really

feel like that watching it. I don't know whether with all the heat taken out of it, it was different.

But I thought Arsenal played pretty well to start the game might have gone ahead without

emilia martinez making that brilliant save from bakai saka kai havers had a good first half

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