Ring for Analysis: The solution to Italy's football crisis
Tifo Football Podcast
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Sassuolo, a tiny football club in Italy, are thriving. At a time when it feels as though Italian football is in crisis, Sassuolo are providing hope that some clubs are doing it the right way.
On this episode, Jon & Joe perform Ring for Analysis on this article by James Horncastle: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7254743/2026/05/07/italy-football-crisis-sassuolo-carnevali
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. It's me. Hi. |
| 0:08.1 | Hello and welcome. How do I do it normally? |
| 0:10.5 | Hello. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine. |
| 0:16.3 | And today I'm delighted to be joined by John McKenzie. |
| 0:19.4 | Hello. |
| 0:20.1 | All right, how's it going? Yeah, good. Now, what are we doing today by John McKenzie. Hello! Hello! |
| 0:21.4 | All right, how's it going? Yeah, good. Now, what are we doing today, John? Italy. Yes, we're doing ring for an... I'm not just doing Italy. That was the wrong answer. It was sort of the right answer, but also wrong. We're doing ring for analysis. Now, what's ring for analysis? Here's what it is. I read an article published by |
| 0:38.7 | The Athletic and John rings a little bell that sounds like this when he wants me to pause so he |
| 0:44.5 | can offer some analysis. And you're right, John. The next bit is, what are we doing? Italy. |
| 0:49.3 | We're doing Italy. Today we're reading an article that was written by James Horncastle. It's all about |
| 0:55.1 | Sasuolo, who are a Seria team, and who are a team who have a model of doing things the right |
| 1:01.0 | way. Yes, at a time when football in Italy is in a bit of a crisis as a result of the fact |
| 1:06.0 | that they're not going to be at the World Cup, this is a story that gives James Horncastle some hope |
| 1:12.0 | about football there. Now, John, what did we talk about on today's episode? We talked about lots |
| 1:17.5 | of things. We talked about one club men. One club players. We called them. One club players. |
| 1:23.4 | Yeah. We talked a little bit about Roberto Deserbie. Oh, yeah. We talked about Roberto Desirby because he was at Seswolo, wasn't he? And that's where we started to see his style emerge. We talked about what happens when YouTube auto-dubs videos. Oh, God, that was, yeah, we did. And actually, we heard a little bit. I hope we'll be able to hear a little bit of that in the final episode. I gave you a quiz. Absolutely horrifying. The quiz was much later in the week for analysis. The quiz was later in the episode. It was quite a good one. I think I did okay. You did okay. I did okay. Yeah. And then what else? We talked about the ceramics industry in Italy. We talked about ceramics and that's true. And we also, we read the lyrics to mole in the ground. |
| 2:03.0 | That is true. |
| 2:03.9 | The 1920s dardized song. |
| 2:06.3 | We did go on some really strange detours today. |
| 2:09.2 | That's true. |
| 2:10.1 | But I feel as they we learned a lot about, about Saswolo and Italian football. |
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