We’re Back Baby!
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Joe Devine, JJ Bull and Jon Mackenzie are here to talk about some football.
For the first show of 2023 the boys start, unexpectedly, with Southampton.
The Athletic’s Southampton reporter Jacob Tanswell joins us to give all of the insight. Will Southampton sink without a trace on the South Coast? Is the new owner's long term plan working?
Manchester United have a 100% winning record since the post World Cup, and at the time of recording before anyone goes near the comments in like five weeks time.
Has Erik Ten Hag started to get the fear back into the Red Devils? And would a big man up top make them even better?
Plus, Chelsea are facing an uncomfortable transition from their short term habits to longer term planning. But will they hold their nerve and keep Graham Potter?
Finally, Haaland is great, but are Manchester City better without him? This is discussed and quickly dismissed, but it’s a good ol’ chat.
The Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Joe Devine and produced by Steve Hankey.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm Joe Devine and I'm delighted to be joined today by JJ Bull the Bullard. |
| 0:14.8 | Hi JJ. |
| 0:15.9 | Yes. |
| 0:16.4 | Did you have a lovely Christmas and New Year? |
| 0:18.2 | No. |
| 0:18.6 | No. |
| 0:18.9 | Okay. |
| 0:19.5 | Well, here also joining us is Jonathan Dogg McKenzie. Hi, John. Hello. And how was your festive season? It was wonderful. Wonderful indeed. Of course. Mine was too. Thanks for asking. Now, no Seb Stafford Bloor today. He's still recovering from six years of working at TIFO. he's got two weeks off and he'll be back next week, I think, to join us. |
| 0:39.3 | Very, very exciting. |
| 0:40.8 | But lots going on in the podcast today for us to discuss where else to start. |
| 0:46.6 | But with Southampton, circling the relegation drain there, very exciting. |
| 0:51.4 | Manchester United, a bit of a resurgence for them, 100% victory since the restart. |
| 0:56.5 | So we'll talk about that today. |
| 0:59.0 | Chelsea, yes, in 10th place, facing the reality of being a normal club. |
| 1:04.6 | Very confusing, yes. |
| 1:06.0 | And of course, I'm just delaying time for Steve Hanky to write out slowly what's happening during the episode. And I can see that City and Holland, some different opinions about whether he should be in the team or not. No one says that. I don't know. That's not what we talk about, but we talk about Mancite and Erling Holland and other things as well. I don't even care. It doesn't even matter. If you're listening to this podcast, then, you know, you probably, or we've already listened to it before. |
| 1:28.6 | Only a small percentage of people listening will be listening for the first time. And if that's |
| 1:32.7 | you and you're new, and if you want to know what's in the podcast, then just listen to it. |
| 1:40.9 | And you know what? That wouldn't have had to have happened, Steve Hangingy, if you were a better producer. But anyway, I will leave you. No, no. No, that's not what I do. |
| 1:50.7 | If you want to retain new people to watch your podcast with excellent football information, |
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