Villa's title challenge, Newcastle & Chelsea's exciting game and the Tifo Festive Quiz!
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Aston Villa’s incredible run of form, continuing with a win over Manchester United, a pulsating 2-2 draw between Newcastle United and Chelsea and a festive Tifo quiz all feature in the final Tifo Football podcast of 2025…
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features JJ Bull, Jon Mackenzie, Kaya Kaynak & Reuben Pinder and is produced by Steve Hankey.
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00:00 - a nostalgic intro
05:32 - Aston Villa’s phenomenal form continues against Man Utd
10:20 - Morgan Rogers is doing good
15:34 - Man Utd’s creative midfield problems and Kobbie Mainoo
20:48 - The Tifo Football podcast festive quiz! Part 1…
29:16 - A break
29:18 - a pulsating draw between Newcastle United & Chelsea
39:06 - song with significance to nations
44:49 - The Tifo Football podcast festive quiz! Part 2
58:33 - Points Are Bad
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Joe Devine. |
| 0:12.4 | And today I'm delighted to be joined by |
| 0:15.3 | Ah, it's J.J. Ballad. |
| 0:17.9 | I have to look at my name on the screen. |
| 0:19.7 | It's written down there. It says the Bullard today. |
| 0:22.1 | Oh, I see. |
| 0:22.7 | You like it? |
| 0:23.3 | Well, it's more that you looked at me, then looked at your screen before you said my name. It's been over about five years now. It's because I forgot your nickname. It was written down here. Today, of course, I mean, it'll become clear why. Although we didn't use your nickname today. |
| 0:35.1 | We used a scream, didn't we? |
| 0:36.5 | J.J. Bull, the... |
| 0:37.6 | Yeah? |
| 0:39.3 | You like that? |
| 0:40.4 | Also, joining me, Although we didn't use your nickname today. We used a scream, didn't we? J.J. Bull, the... |
| 0:37.6 | Yeah? |
| 0:39.3 | You like that? |
| 0:40.3 | Also, joining me is Jonathan Dog McKenzie. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm a serious analyst. |
| 0:54.7 | It's Jonathan Dogg McKenzie. There he is. He buck. It's Jonathan Dog McKenzie. |
| 0:57.0 | There he is. |
| 0:57.8 | It's a special episode where we play a quiz and people bark and scream and there's all sorts of things happening here. |
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