The Manchester & North London derbies, understanding xG and Tifo has a book!
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Joe Devine, JJ Bull and Seb Stafford-Bloor are here to talk about some of the derbies.
In Manchester, the sky is blue for City but have the storm clouds returned for United?
In North London, Arsenal beat Tottenham Hotspur but could things have easily been different?
Liverpool dropped more points, this time against the continuously impressive Brighton. Is it too late for them to get back into title contention?
We explain what xG actually is after Newcastle United recorded a really high one against Fulham.
And we do our bit to promote the beautiful Scottish village of Oldmeldrum…
PLUS… Tifo has a book coming out! It’s called “How To Watch Football” and you can pre-order it here - https://t.co/U3XBmpVAXZ
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Joe Devine. |
| 0:11.3 | Before we start today's show, we just want to acknowledge what happened with the stadium disaster in Indonesia. |
| 0:18.5 | The official issued death toll at the Kanjuran Stadium is 174, but it is feared that |
| 0:24.7 | that could grow over time. Of course, there were several hundred injuries as well. And I'm reading |
| 0:31.8 | from a piece that The Athletic wrote about it, a new story yesterday now. In terms of the full story, |
| 0:37.3 | the Athletic will be taking our time to report further details. |
| 0:40.8 | This is one of the worst stadium disasters in the history of football, |
| 0:44.3 | and we will share the extent of the tragedy with you |
| 0:46.7 | only when the facts have been established. |
| 0:49.8 | And we will do the same here at the TIFO podcast as well. |
| 0:53.5 | But obviously at the head of the show, |
| 0:55.0 | we just want to acknowledge what is an extremely sad situation. |
| 1:00.6 | But for now, let's get on with the rest of the show. |
| 1:03.3 | Music Okay, on the show today, we have JJ Bull. Hello, JJ. |
| 1:24.9 | Hello. |
| 1:25.6 | And also joined by Seb Stafford Blore from Germany. Hello, |
| 1:29.2 | Seb. Hello, Joe. Let us begin |
| 1:31.7 | where else, one might say, with Manchester City |
| 1:34.0 | six, three Manchester United, |
| 1:36.7 | JJ, Erlinghorland, we've |
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