Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm now joined by Seb Stafford Bloor. Hi, Seb. Hi, Seb. Hi, Joe Define. How are you? I'm fine. I'm lonely in the studio though because there's no one here except me and you are of course in Hamburg, Germany. I sure am.

I'm also lonely.

So maybe our loneliness cancels out.

I'm not sure.

Like I'm in an office by myself.

You have Don and Sol with their lovely hands.

You're always lonely.

But not today because we have so much to discuss.

Alex and JJ are on holiday, which is great, because it

means we can have a proper football conversation and not one that's all about numbers and tactics.

Who wants that? I want to talk about the fight between Tangankar and Zah. I was going to say,

I want to talk about Harvey Elliott's injury, but that was horrific. We will come to that. Not in a fun way at all. But we're going to try and cover as many games as possible, a little bit on the continent, too. It's a fantastically packed show, Seb. Yeah, I was kind of hoping for a lot from the continent, not a little bit. I mean, when we talked about this last night, it felt as if that segment would be a bit

larger. Well, no, you know, you've put two things down. There's three things. There's three things.

You just haven't looked at the plan, definitely. We'll see when we get there. But if you haven't

looked at the plan also, then you should visit the athletic, because when you read the athletic,

you don't need to read any plans.

You show up everywhere, ready for your football conversation without needing to, you know, research in a difficult way.

Because the Athletic is fun.

If you visit Theathletic.com forward slash TIFO, you'll find that you can get a 30-day free trial. That's right.

You can try it free for 30 days. And do you know what I did with it this morning, Seb?

Tell me, Joe, did you learn stuff? I read a Greg Evans matchpiece on the Aston Villa Chelsea game, Greg Evans, or as we call him here, Gregavans.

Which is really interesting.

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