Scotland get to World Cup, where will Semenyo go & who will win the North London derby?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Scotland qualifying for the World Cup, the best destination for Bournemouth's Antoine Semenyo, this weekend’s North London derby between Arsenal & Tottenham Hotspur plus a confusing time for the German national team were all discussed in the latest Tifo Football podcast…
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features Jon Mackenzie& Seb Stafford-Bloor and is produced by Steve Hankey.
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00:00 - a fever dream intro
06:08 - Scotland are going to the World cup!
18:35 - Where would be a good fit for Antoine Semenyo?
32:28 - an advertisement break
33:30 - Click here for the North London derby preview
44:48 - a break
44:50 - we’re right back, with more #NLD
45:32 - and again
45:50 - and again again
45:55 - Why Arsenal are really impressively actually
52:42 - It’s not Arteta’s fault the Premier League is now boring
57:40 - Jon’s new hobby
59:40 - The German national side
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Joe Devine and today I'm at home because I've injured my immune system with a illness. |
| 0:18.6 | I don't know what it is. |
| 0:19.4 | I feel okay, but |
| 0:21.7 | there's signs that I'm fluy, so I've decided to spare John and Steve in the studio. I'm delighted |
| 0:29.4 | to be joined, of course, by both of them. Hello, John. Hello. Hi, Steve. Hello. That's right. |
| 0:36.1 | John and Steve are in the studio on their own together. A fitting tribute to my illness. But we are joined... We're in separate rooms. We are in separate rooms. Technically, they're in separate rooms, yeah. But we are also joined by another remote man with a different kind of illness. It's Sebastian Stafford Bloor. Hi, Seb. Hi, Joe Devine. Your illness, of course. What is my illness? |
| 0:55.5 | Your illness is that you've injured your back today and you've taken some quite strong painkillers, |
| 0:59.8 | haven't you? Yeah, I do have a bad case of Rooken Schmertsen. So pain killers have been had, |
| 1:05.9 | and there are hilarious effects during the podcast. That's true. Of that. Look out for those on today's episode. So let me tell you what we talked about today. |
| 1:15.5 | Well, the first story is, of course, the big story from yesterday that Scotland are through to |
| 1:21.7 | the next year's World Cup. Incredible scenes. What a way to seal qualification. |
| 1:26.3 | We talk a little bit about that at the |
| 1:28.0 | beginning of today's episode. A fine affair indeed it was. John is full of malapropisms. |
| 1:35.6 | Propisms today, which I didn't laugh at you for saying that during the podcast because I didn't |
| 1:42.8 | know what it meant and I was scared. Maybe it's the weather today, though. It's very snowy here in the UK. I think I'm a bit under the weather as well, you know. Not so much under the weather that I couldn't say the word malapropisms, but it did me, my brain is all over the place a little bit. Do you know where under the weather comes from? No. No. |
| 2:01.5 | So apparently, I was reading a book called The Wager, and the phrase originates from when sailors would get sick at sea, and they would go below deck. |
| 2:13.2 | Oh, that's cool. |
| 2:15.0 | Away from the weather. |
| 2:16.4 | Yeah, I think that's the first use. |
| 2:19.5 | Let's fact. |
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