Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast.

I'm J.J. Bull and today I am joined by the mysterious.

Alex Stewart. Hello.

I am mysterious. You are. What's the most mysterious thing you've done in the last three days?

Obviously I can't tell you that. Because the most mysterious thing you've done in the last three days obviously i can't tell

you that because it's mysterious um good this started weirdly and then also we're joined by

everyone's best friend he loves you all as we love him it's seb stafford blower hello joj

bull oh seab oh you see much happy for the last week. That is... I've recovered from the illness. Levels of chirpiness. No, I've had a nasty bit of bronchitis, but I've recovered. I've still got a cough and I'm still not sleeping well, but I am happy to be on the other end of the illness. Yes. Well, you know what, boys and girls, you were in for a real treat.

We've got a chirpy,

Seb, a mysterious Alex. And there's loads of football to talk about. And we were going to do all of that. We're going to talk about all the, the arsenals and the liverpools and the man cities and all the other things. And yeah, It's going to be a real treat.

And if you like treats,

well,

what better treat could you get than by going to theathletic.com forward slash TIFO?

What do you get, Alex?

You get access to unparalleled sports coverage.

For how long?

I guess as long as you like, really. Yes. I mean, it depends,

doesn't it? Alex has gone for the hard sell here. So what happens if you go to this mysterious

link, Alex is alluding to, is that you will get a trial to read the athletic and all the

many things on it. Like today, for instance, we're recording this on a Monday, you could have read David Ornstein's column and all about how there's some things happening with Erling Holland, possibly going to Manchester City. And Paul Pogba isn't going to Manchester City. That would have been funny though. What else is happening, Seb? Hey, so I've been reading Simon Johnson's work on the new Chelsea owner.

It's been very, very interesting. Yeah, it's been gone for a while, but Simon's done a super job covering it. And read a little bit of Charlie Ackleshare and Jack Pittbrook after Tottenham got their draw at Anfield. That's been fun. And, yeah, I mean, it's a trial, but it's a trial in name only. you'll trial it and then you'll just, you'll be, you'll be doing it full time properly, not trial, just forever. You're becoming a member of a club, an exclusive club where you do want to be a member. A good club, not one of those bad ones. Yeah. Not like the Marks Brothers joke where you don't want to be part of it. You do want to be part of this club.

That's enough of a cell.

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