Risky Gerrard, Sassy Arsenal & Crystal Palace: Cool By Association
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Joe, Seb & Alex reconvene during the international break to discuss whether Steven Gerrard has jeopardised his 'dream' of managing Liverpool by taking the job at Aston Villa... Also, why Norwich appointing Dean Smith covers all the bases, how Arsenal have surprised Joe and how tactically flexible Vieira's Crystal Palace are.
Plus, Seb and Alex reflect on some interesting international football and, in particular, USA's scary progress ahead of hosting the World Cup in 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm joined here in the studio by Alex Stewart. |
| 0:10.6 | Hi, Jay. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello, how are you? |
| 0:12.1 | I was just doing some neck warmups. |
| 0:14.1 | Lovely. Well, we'll need your neck to be extra warm for today's podcast because of course there's plenty to talk about international break. |
| 0:21.6 | Joining us all the way from Germany, EU. It's goodnt tag, Herr Stafin'Law, |
| 0:27.9 | the Gates too. |
| 0:29.3 | Ah, me Gates is good, Herr Devine. |
| 0:31.6 | Lovely. Well, there we go. Again, international break. But we will be talking about |
| 0:37.1 | Dean Smith to Norwich, Gerard to |
| 0:39.9 | Aston Villa, Arsenal's resurgence, and Crystal Palace on an unbeaten run, as well as |
| 0:45.8 | some of the international break fixtures there as well, all of which producer Adonis has highlighted in the podcast plan and isn't here to unh highlight. |
| 0:59.6 | So that's going to irritate me for the next hour. |
| 1:02.5 | Looking forward to that. |
| 1:03.6 | If you don't ever want to be irritated, though, you should download The Athletic. |
| 1:08.2 | Visit Theathletic.com forward slash TIFO to find written stuff that will make you the opposite of irritated, infused, happy, pleased, tickled, you know, lots of exciting things. And can I say, Seb, that there is no better example of why one should get a 30-day free trial to the Athletic than the reporting around |
| 1:29.1 | Dean Smith to Norwich last week. So it was a sort of strange week for Norwich reporting, |
| 1:33.1 | wasn't it really? But the athletic got it right and got it first. They sure did. David |
| 1:37.6 | Ornstein was all over that and very strange because one of those stories which sort of zigzagged |
| 1:41.8 | all over the place between Frank Lampard, a load of other managers who didn't seem particularly qualified. |
| 1:47.8 | And eventually Dean Smith got it, which seems like a good thing for Norwich, good thing for Uncle Damien. |
| 1:51.6 | Indeed. |
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