Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm now joined by a delirious JJ Bull.

Hello. Hello. How are you? What a day, my word, goals. Do you see the ball?

I saw the ball in the net. Yes, please. How many goals? We said there were, excluding the penalties, there were 14 goals today in two games, something like that. So many. Extraordinary. J.J. Bull is of course referring to France, Switzerland and Spain, Croatia. Penalties, jeopardy, other things. Many goals. Very exciting. And of course, we also want to welcome Sebastian Stafford Bloor.

Hello, Seb.

Hello, Joe.

You feel anxious still.

I feel knackered and anxious and like all my muscles are exhausted.

I've been 10th for an hour and a half.

When was the last time that you felt like that watching football

without teams that you support involved?

Probably an hour before this game started when we watched Spain against Croatia.

It really was a big day.

And do you know where else it's a big day every day?

The Athletic.

Because if you visit Theathletic.com forward slash TIFO,

you'll find that every day there's something that you desperately want to read more than you could possibly imagine. And the best thing is that it's all written by some of the best football writers around, isn't it, Seth? Sure is. It's got David Ornstein, Amy Lawrence, George Culkin, my personal favourite. Danny Taylor, Ollie Kay, Michael Cox, Adam Crofton, long old list of excellent football writers. I expect Amy Lawrence, who's been covering France, it would be interesting to read Amy tomorrow.

Yeah, well, actually, I was also a little disappointed that Holland went out because I've enjoyed Simon Hughes's work.

It's been very, very good. So, yeah, but there's loads of good writers.

And outside of the Euros, the nice thing to say about the Athletic is that there are dedicated

team writers for every Premier League team, a handful of the championship too. And we've got writers who cover both La Liga and Seria A and the Bundesliga 2. James Horncastle, Raffaughnickstein, Dermac Corrigan. The list is almost endless. Plus 10 other sports. If you like other sports, you know, I don't know why you would, but if you do, then there is excellent coverage of all of those teams too. So visit theathletic.com forward slash TIFO and you'll find that you can get a 30 day free trial to try out everything I've just said for free. You've nothing to lose. Good deal. Good deal. Well, I don't know how we're going to live up today in this podcast to the football that's happened. We're going to do our very best. But goodness me, it was exciting. I'm pleased to be here with you both. Well, okay. That's awkward, isn't it? A little silence. Oh, lovely. Yeah, lovely. Oh, yeah, thanks. It would have meant more if you'd said it four seconds ago, but don't worry, don't worry. I know you like the space. You kind of never really leave. They just turn the cameras off. We just stay here all the tournament and then, you know, glued to our desk. This time of day. Right. Well, that's football. We'll be back after I leave you in the warm hands and the cool embrace of football.

Okay, where else to begin other than France 3, 3 Switzerland and 4-5 on penalties?

Switzerland, of course, progressing to the quarterfinals to play, Spain, I believe.

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