Tim Spiers on Jimenez, Fabio Silva and recovering from European football
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Joe Devine and I'm joined now by Seb Stafford Bloor. |
| 0:08.8 | Hello, Joe Devine. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello, we were joined by Tim Spears today, the wonderful Tim Spears. |
| 0:14.5 | What did we talk about, Seb? |
| 0:16.2 | All sorts of things. |
| 0:17.3 | We covered the very unfortunate situation with Rahimenez after his injury at |
| 0:21.3 | Arsenal. We talked about how Fabio Silver might replace him. I was talked a little about a bit |
| 0:26.4 | about who Fabio Silver actually is because a very expensive player, supposedly a very, very good one, |
| 0:31.5 | but someone we know very little about. He doesn't even have a particularly good YouTube compilation, |
| 0:36.4 | which must make him the only player in Europe not to. |
| 0:39.2 | But that adds to the sense of mystery with him. |
| 0:42.6 | 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, Seb. |
| 0:48.1 | You do love a mystery. |
| 0:49.6 | You also like a very detailed explanation of conditioning in football teams, don't you? |
| 0:55.2 | I think you do anyway. |
| 0:56.5 | I like it when Tim does it. |
| 0:58.2 | Yeah, and Tim does it really well. |
| 0:59.6 | We riv is an article he wrote about a year ago, which explains how footballers deal with short |
| 1:05.7 | turnarounds and fixture congestion. |
| 1:07.3 | It's absolutely fascinating. |
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