Tifo Talks: When Friday Comes with James Montague
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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James Montague's classic When Friday Comes has been rereleased with added material ahead of the World Cup in Qatar. Travelling to every country in the Middle East and meeting fans, players, workers and campaigners, James paints an unforgettable picture of football in a controversial, vibrant and surprising new world.
In this episode of Tifo Talks, Jon Mackenzie chats to James about the book and how he came to write it before focusing on two Middle Eastern countries in particular, Iran and Qatar.
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, hello and welcome to the third in a special edition of the TIFO football podcast mini-series |
| 0:08.8 | TIFO talks. I'm here with a host of the podcast. It's Jonathan McKenzie. Hi, John. Hello. Who are you |
| 0:14.8 | speaking to today? Today I am. Oh, they've been good so far, haven't they? But who's it today, though? |
| 0:19.8 | Today I'm speaking to James Montecue. Ah, the one and only. The one and only. I believe James Montague has once described as the Indiana Jones of football writing. Yeah? Yeah, we talked about that on the episode. Great. Was that an Easter egg there for me? No, I just knew that. Okay. I haven't listened to the episode. Well, we talk about that at the beginning of the episode. |
| 0:38.2 | Right. |
| 0:38.5 | Okay, fine. |
| 0:39.2 | Well, I hope he's brought his hat or something. |
| 0:41.6 | Yeah? What else do you talk about? We talked about his new book. Well, I say his new book. It's an old book that he has re-released called When Friday Comes. He certainly knows how to squeeze money out of people, doesn't it? |
| 0:35.4 | Yeah, that's true. |
| 0:36.8 | And I feel as well I've been inculcated in your... |
| 0:41.4 | No, it's true. And I feel it's |
| 0:55.7 | like I've been inculcated in your joke. James and I are friends, don't worry. That's fine. |
| 1:00.7 | Yeah. He knows I mean it. Please don't hate me, James. But yeah, we talked about his book, |
| 1:05.4 | the changes that he's made, but also we focused on two countries in particular. We focused on |
| 1:09.0 | Iran, which is obviously interesting from geopolitical point of view at the moment. |
| 1:13.2 | And also we talked about Qatar, which is the... |
| 1:17.4 | The host of the World Cup. That's right, yes. |
| 1:19.7 | Okay, without further ado, let us enjoy today's episode. |
| 1:23.6 | Okay. |
| 1:23.9 | Okay. |
| 1:45.1 | Hello and welcome to Tifo Talks, a podcast on the TIFO Football Podcast Network. |
| 1:42.4 | I'm John McKenzie and I'm joined today by a man who has been described as the Indiana Jones of football journalism. James Monteckee, James Howie do you? I'm on brand. I've got the TIFO mug. Tico mug. Yeah. Company man. Yeah. How do you feel about being described as the Indiana Jones of football journalism? I hasten to add that is not my tagline. I mean, I suppose it's quite nice, isn't it? |
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