Tim Spiers on Jimenez, Fabio Silva and recovering from European football

Tifo Football Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Joe and Seb are joined by The Athletic’s Wolverhampton Wanderers correspondent Tim Spiers, to discuss Raul Jimenez’ head injury and the young understudy who will deputise in his absence - the unknown Fabio Silva. Plus, the trio revisit Tim’s incredibly detailed article on how players recover from gruelling European away games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast I'm Joe Devine and I'm joined now by
0:07.5	Sepp Stafford Bloor. Hello Joe Devine. Hello we were joined by Tim Spears today, the wonderful Tim Spears.
0:14.0	What did we talk about, Seb?
0:16.0	All sorts of things. We covered the very unfortunate situation with Rahimenez after his
0:20.9	injured arsenal. We talked about how Fabius Silver might replace him.
0:25.0	I was talked a little bit about a bit about who Fabius Silver actually is because a very
0:28.9	very expensive player supposedly a very, very good one, but someone we know very little about.
0:33.0	He doesn't even have a particularly good YouTube compilation,
0:36.4	which must make him the only player in Europe not to.
0:39.3	But that adds to the sense of mystery with him. We're told he's very talented and I guess we're about to find out just how talented he is.
0:46.7	I love a mystery, sir. You do love a mystery. You also like a very detailed explanation of conditioning in football teams don't you I think you do anyway
0:56.2	I like it when Tim does it yeah and Tim does it really well the way we revisit a an article he wrote about a year ago which explains how footballers deal with short
1:05.6	turnarounds and fixture congestion. It's absolutely fascinating.
1:08.3	It really is and do you know something else that's really good at dealing with a
1:12.0	quick turnaround and
1:13.2	congestion, uh, fixtures, congestion.
1:17.2	Wasn't your best.
1:18.2	It's the athletic.
1:23.0	Actually, we have a genuinely good deal on at the moment until Friday, I believe Friday the 4th.
1:28.0	We have a sort of Black Friday Cyber Monday extended deal.
1:31.0	One pound per month for 12 months or for the first 12 months
1:33.8	says 12 pounds for the first year that is an exceptional deal. If you visit the
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