The Serie A Title Race: Who are the challengers?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Jon Mackenzie and James Horncastle are here to discuss why Italy’s title race is so open and which teams are involved in the Scudetto challenge.
Serie A has had the most diverse group of title winners across the last few seasons. Why is that the case?
Why has there been so much change at Napoli?
Has Inter underperformed in the league the past few seasons?
Is this make or break season for manager Stefano Pioli at Milan?
Where are we at right now in the Juventus saga?
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:07.8 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm John McKenzie and I'm joined as I always am by my good pal and producer Mike Zimmerman. |
| 0:14.3 | Mike, how are you doing today? |
| 0:15.2 | I'm doing good, John, getting into some Calcho today. |
| 0:17.7 | Yeah, Calcho. |
| 0:18.4 | Everyone loves Calcio and who better to talk to about Calcio than James |
| 0:22.8 | Horncastle. I had a fantastic hour chatting to him and you listened to that conversation. So what did |
| 0:27.4 | you make of it? Now, we're so used to leagues being so top-heavy. Look at Byr and Manchester City and |
| 0:32.8 | PSG dominating domestically, the Spanish duopoly of Air Madrid and Barcelona. But in Seria, we've |
| 0:39.1 | been lucky to see four different Scudetto winners in the past four seasons. And that keeps things |
| 0:43.9 | fresh from a neutral's perspective. And I honestly, I love the way James described why there's so |
| 0:50.0 | much parody in Italy. Yeah, it's fascinating. And I think I've very much enjoyed the title race in |
| 0:55.5 | Sariaire over the last few seasons off the back of that, because as you say, the expectation is now |
| 1:00.2 | in modern football that you get these dynasties of teams who just win everything. So again, we're going |
| 1:05.8 | into a Seriat season where we actually don't really know who's going to win. So hopefully that |
| 1:10.3 | parity will be there through the whole season. |
| 1:13.6 | And so the best thing I think for us to do now is to just jump in and hear James Horncastle |
| 1:17.7 | telling us all about the majority of teams that are going to be in that title race. |
| 1:21.8 | Lots to get through, but lots of really interesting insight from James. |
| 1:25.0 | So this is James Horncastle and the Seria title race. |
| 1:36.2 | One of the big questions that has been leveled at European football in the era of big capital |
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