Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and hot diggedy dog. It's kicking off. I'm here with Alex Stewart.

Yes, you are. Good morning. And we're also here with Seb Staford Blur, aren't we, Alex?

I believe Seb is here, although how present he is in real terms remains to be seen.

Seb's half in the Tifa podcast land and half in Nervar.

Because of course the second most important story of today is that apparently José Marino's lost his job,

which we found out during the recording of this podcast.

So apologies if what was already a bit ad hoc is even more off the cuff. We are also delighted to be

joined today by Mr James Montague, who kindly agreed at short notice, as he attests to, to come

and talk us through for half an hour the situation with the Super League,

the Super League, the story that of course broke last night.

James is very well placed to discuss that currently and historically, so thanks to him.

And also afterwards, we go on and talk about Marino, assuming that that is real and that the tweets that I've seen about it are actually factual. And if they're not, this will all be cut out and you won't be hearing it. Okay. Another thing to say is that, you know who's an ever-present throughout these times of darkness, Seb? Tell me, Joe. It's all the journalists at the Athletic, because when I was

going to sleep last night and struggling to sleep, thinking, oh, I'm missing out and everything's

fucked. When I woke up, yeah, there was a perfect explainer of everything that had happened in

the Super League conversations written by such people as Adam

Crafton contributed to by others such as Matt Slater and in, you know, what took me about 10 minutes

to read, I'm up to date, I know everything there is to know about the Super League, and also,

I know some stuff that you wouldn't find out anywhere else, a few stories that were broken along the way too and you could also treat yourself to such certainty

and satisfaction by visiting theathletic.com forward slash Tifo that's theathletic.com forward

slash Tifo and availing yourselves of a deal worth about four pounds a month I believe at the

moment maybe even three ninety nine if you believe, the psychology.

It's only 1 p less, but it sounds better, doesn't it?

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