What’s going on at Manchester United?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this special Manchester United focused episode of the Tifo Football podcast, we talk about how Ruben Amorim’s first year as manager at Old Trafford has been.
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features Laurie Whitwell & Jon Mackenzie and is produced by Steve Hankey.
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00:00 - An AMAZING intro
02:35 - Laurie’s reflections on one year of Ruben Amorim
07:25 - What grade should Amorim get for his time so far?
18:00 - Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s warm words
22:29 - A break before stuff & more things
22:31 - Grading signings under Amorim
27:33 - How flexible is Amorim really?
38:30 - Will this strategy bear delicious fruit?
42:44 - Sorry Jon, adverts
42:46 - If he had forever could Amorim win the league?
50:58 - Who were the other contenders when Amorim was hired?
54:00 - the Dan Ashworth diversion
1:01 - Benjamin Šeško
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm Joe Devine and today I'm delighted to be joined by Laurie Whitwell. |
| 0:16.8 | Woo! |
| 0:17.8 | Wow, okay, okay. |
| 0:19.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.5 | Thanks for that. The singular handplant doesn't really do it, is it? I didn okay. Yeah. Thanks for that. |
| 0:20.8 | The singular hand clap doesn't really do it, is it? I didn't even clap, you know. I'm happy to see you, but I'm not clap happy. Fine. You know? I appreciate that. Also, John McKenzie. Woo! Oh, two clap. I'm clapping under the table, though. Steve's clapping in the silent room as well. Again, great to see you. |
| 0:37.9 | Not clapworthy. |
| 0:39.2 | One day we'll have someone on this, clapworthy. I can't imagine who that will be. Now, listen, today, if you don't want to hear about Man United, then you better get the f*** out of here because all we do. Quite literally, all we do, the whole episode. We talked about Airbus. We talked about Airbus for a while. Well, let's talk about what we talked about airbus we talked about airbus for a while |
| 0:55.5 | well let's talk about what we talked about here uh reuben amarim's first year in the job what grade |
| 1:01.0 | would he have had we do a lot of there's a lot of grading it's quite an important metaphor for this |
| 1:06.3 | there's too much grading on today's episode i would say i. I blame Laurie. Now, did Sir Jim's |
| 1:11.2 | warm words, right, Steve, bring some stability to the situation at United? |
| 1:16.4 | I just love Right, Steve has become such a good throwaway in there now. |
| 1:20.6 | I just want people to know it was written by Steve. It's very important for the, |
| 1:25.6 | that people know that. It's a bit of alliteration though, Steve's favorite there. Oh, he loves it. He genuinely didn't even mean to do that. He can't help himself. He has the sickness. He's got the alliteration bug. Now, what's the difference between tactics and strategy? We really drill down. We double triple drill down into that because I don't think John got it right the first time, but time three. It was such a good explanation after a little bit of help. Now, what delicious tasty fruits will this Manchester United Strategy bear? And will they overripen or go soggy? We discover that a little bit later. Overripen? Oh, and go soggy. |
| 2:01.6 | To be fair to Steve. |
| 2:02.6 | Steve wrote. |
| 2:03.6 | Steve got it right about the sagginess factor. |
| 2:07.6 | Yeah, I was wrong about that. |
| 2:08.6 | What could the past year have looked like instead? |
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