The Athletic FC

Hello

I knew that was going to happen

Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast

I'm Joe Devine

And today I'm delighted to be joined by

John McKenzie

Apples

That's because I said apples at the end of the podcast, by mistake. Kaya Kinek. Ola. And Thomas Gil Lopez Mencherro. Oh yeah. Hello, how's it going? Great. Also, Steve. Ola, goodal. Now, what did we talk about on today's episode? Well, maybe you can guess from my incredible Spanish that I was just

accenting there. Absolutely delightful, wasn't it? We started in the only place we could,

of course, and that was the, Steve says, quote, diabolical collapse of Tottenham Hotspur in the

Champions League on Tuesday night. And then we get lost in making up new idioms regarding hard knives and edges. We did do that, didn't we? Diabolical means, like, it's referencing the devil, right? Diabolos. Diablo. So that sounds pretty conspiracy theory to me. That's true. There was actually devils involved. Forget the oil on the pitch. Steve manages to keep this out of podcast, but he does love conspiracy. He's a big fan, particularly ones about spurs. Yeah. Come to the territory being an Arsenal fan, isn't it? That's true. It's true. If you're going to be an Arsenal fan and live long, you do have to believe in conspiracy things. It also can mean disgracefully bad or unpleasant, though. He's been Googling the whole time. That was what was happening with him. I think that he meant the devil. We carry on to discuss whether it's a worse decision to keep Igor Tudor at this point. Well, we don't really discuss it. I just kind of say it. And then we hear the opinion of the room. After a Blake, we play a Rondo now. Very exciting.

They can Kaya defend his crown? We shall see. And post Rondo, of course, we talk about the contrasting fortunes of Premier League's home and away. And a very enjoyable theme tune from an Australian soap opera is beautifully sung. That's correct, Steve, It is. Within that conversation, the upcoming gauntlet of Manchester City, the gauntlet that they have to run. We discussed them a little bit as well. I've already f*** up. And then we're on to scabby Barcelona. John's words, of course. John called them scabby. And very important to say that John chose to say that privately to me,

and I brought it here to discuss. My point was simply that they...

No time to do points, John. It's in the intro here.

Knicking a draw against Newcastle United, of course. That's what's scabbing Barcelona,

according to John. That's what they did there. We check in on the 2016 Premier League

Champions, Lester, who've fallen far from Grace in recent times.

And then we hear briefly the story from Thomas of a man who traveled hundreds of miles in the wrong direction by accident.

That was quite fun there at the end of the podcast as well.

And I also will say that tomorrow we have an audio exclusive ring for analysis episode on a topic as yet to be determined. Because we're waiting. It could be some pretty exciting news. There could be something. Audio exclusive. It's going to be. Yeah, it's going to be audio. That's what I said. That's what I said, John. Is that it? Is that it, Steve? That is it. That is it. His microphone wasn't on.

He just pressed the button.

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