Premier League World Cup Winterpause, how we’d rip football up and start again
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Joe Devine, JJ Bull, Seb Stafford-Bloor and Jon Mackenzie are here to talk about some football.
The World Cup enforced pause in the Premier League has begun so the boys look back on their highlights, lowlights and delights of the season so far.
Gerard Pique has been speaking about how football needs to evolve to keep the kids interested.
We talk about why it’s seemingly so difficult to make changes in football and, to forewarn you, Joe gets ranty.
Plus, we discuss the difficult position footballers are sometimes put in by decisions they didn’t make. Yes, it’s a chat about the World Cup…
The Tifo football podcast is presented by Joe Devine and produced by Steve Hankey.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm delighted to be energetically joined today by J.J. Bull the Bullitt. |
| 0:15.6 | I am energetic. Here I am. Jonathan Dogg McKenzie. |
| 0:18.8 | Bye! |
| 0:19.8 | And of course joining us all the way from Germany, our good-tag has Stafford Blois, the Gates do. Hello, Joe Define. Yes, that's, okay, yes. El-D. Yeah, he didn't answer the Gates a bit, but that's fine. Listen, we've got loads to get through gates on today's podcast. |
| 0:37.9 | So let me tell you a little bit about that now. |
| 0:40.4 | The Winter Pouser, yes, the World Cup enforced Winter Pouser. |
| 0:43.9 | We will discuss that in the Premier League and where all the teams are now. |
| 0:48.0 | A little bit about the relegation battle. |
| 0:49.5 | It's very unclear this season so far, isn't it? |
| 0:52.0 | There was a Portuguese-M Portuguese Manchester United player who made some |
| 0:55.1 | comments that we'll be discussing later on. Great joke going up, yeah, it was a funny bit. |
| 1:01.9 | That's a funny bit later. That's a fun joke. The joke didn't really work in the bit, but you'll get there later. |
| 1:08.2 | Changes to the game. Should we change everything and destroy it all? |
| 1:12.1 | Yes, we'll talk about that. |
| 1:14.0 | And of course, also, we will look ahead a little bit to the World Cup as we approach the end of today's podcast. |
| 1:21.9 | Very exciting, isn't it? |
| 1:23.1 | Now, if you like to look ahead and be excited or indeed look back and be sorrowful, then you should |
| 1:28.1 | visit theathletic.com forward slash tifo, theathletic.com forward slash tifo where there are some |
| 1:33.1 | nostalgia bits, but mostly it's hopefulness, yeah? And of course during the World Cup, |
| 1:37.6 | there's an awful lot of extremely high quality content to be released on the Athletics |
| 1:41.9 | platform. I spent a little bit of time with Charlie Scott, one of the World Cup editors there. |
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