Tifo Talks: Tactics and the Women's Game with Jessy Parker Humphreys
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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The last few years have seen a tactical renaissance in the women's game. Jon Mackenzie is joined by Jessy Parker Humphreys to talk about the relationship between the tactics of the men's and women's games, the role of tactics at the Euros last summer, and what to look forward to in the upcoming WSL season.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the second in a special edition of the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm here with host John McKenzie. |
| 0:09.4 | Hi John. |
| 0:09.9 | Hello. |
| 0:10.4 | Who are you speaking to today, John? |
| 0:12.1 | Today I am speaking to Jesse Parker, Humphreys, who is an expert in women's football tactics. |
| 0:17.3 | That's exciting. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm excited to learn about women's football tactics. |
| 0:20.5 | Are they different from the men's? Well, we talk about that in the episode, so I won't have any spoilers. But yeah, plenty of stuff to talk about. The Euros was great from a tactical point of view. WSL season has just kicked off, so plenty to talk about in that respect as well. Great. Okay. Well, I can see no reason to drag this out further. I will leave you to introduce the episode. |
| 0:38.8 | Yes, let's go. |
| 1:01.6 | Hello and welcome to TIFO Talks, a podcast on the TIFO Football Podcast Network. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm John McKenzie and I'm joined today by Jesse Parker-Humfries. |
| 1:05.9 | Jesse, thank you for coming on today. |
| 1:07.2 | Thank you for having me, John. |
| 1:10.4 | Jesse is a freelance women's football writer and broadcaster. They write a weekly |
| 1:11.9 | WSL roundup on their substack, Flying Geese, as well as hosting box to box, a weekly women's |
| 1:17.5 | football tactics podcast and the Chelsea women's podcast on London is blue. So unsurprisingly, |
| 1:23.5 | our topic today is going to be tactics in the women's game. So I just want to start with a really broad question. |
| 1:29.7 | Jesse, where would you say that we're at in terms of tactics in the women's game at this point in time? |
| 1:34.0 | You can just give us a bit of a brief overview about where the various fault lines are lying. |
| 1:38.4 | Yeah, I think the women's game is very much in flux and is very fast moving. |
| 1:45.0 | Broadly, I think we now would say that the top two or three teams in most countries |
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