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Tifo Football Podcast

Ring for Analysis: Part Two of The greatest Brian Clough story

Tifo Football Podcast

The Athletic

Premier League, Sports, Champions League, Soccer,, Football Transfers

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, Joe & Jon perform Ring for Analysis, while reading through the second and final part of this remarkable Brian Clough tale, written by Daniel Taylor https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/1289971/2019/10/15/the-remarkable-tale-of-two-boys-who-went-begging-for-pennies-and-ended-up-living-with-brian-clough/


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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine. And today I'm delighted to be joined by John McKenzie.

0:09.8

Hello, Joe. How's it going? Good. We've just done a double header. That's right. And you're saying that because this is part two of the special mini-series written by Daniel Taylor, the article about Brian Clough.

0:22.7

The headline being The Remarkable Tale of Two Boys,

0:25.4

who went begging for pennies and ended up living with Brian Clough.

0:29.4

Now, this episode is a Ring for Analysis episode.

0:32.2

Here's how Ring for Analysis works.

0:33.9

I read an article published by The Athletic,

0:36.2

and John rings a little bell that sounds like

0:38.4

this when he wants to do some analysis. Today is part two. So if you're listening to this and you

0:44.3

haven't listened to part one, I mean, you're welcome to stay. It might be a bit confusing. It might

0:48.5

be best to pop back and listen to part one first. But John, we complete the story today and what other things

0:54.6

do we get up to discussing?

0:56.6

Yeah, I think we got a bit more into the complexity of the Brian Clough character in this,

1:00.4

in this part of the episode, this episode, yeah, second part of the episode.

1:05.2

Look at you go, a professional broadcaster, yeah.

1:08.2

And we talk a lot about how Brian Clough has a mastery of language and words. And persuasion and communication, yeah, yeah, yeah. And we talk a lot about how Brian Clough has a mastery of language and words.

1:12.4

And persuasion and communication. Yeah, yeah, that's mainly what we talked about. What were the

1:18.3

takeaways for you from this one? We told a story about Justin Faschonu. We also, we do a little

1:23.8

sort of quiz about UK comedy based on a you goov poll that you found that I just can't believe.

1:30.4

And then we always talk about the UK version of Saturday Night Live as well.

1:35.3

That comes up in this conversation in reference to a description of Ronnie Rinaldi.

1:42.0

Ronnie Rinaldi or Ronnie Rinaldo.

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