Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm joined now by Alex Stewart.

Hello Joe. Hello. We talked about your team today, Alex, Southampton Football Club. Correct. Yes, that took you a long time to get involved there. We were also joined by Carl Anker, the Athletics Southampton correspondent, who was filled with wonderful little facts about the club that we are discussing.

What did we talk about Alex Bullitt Points, please?

We talked about ownership.

We talked about recruitment.

We talked about the centrality of Ralph Hassanhutl.

We talked about how James Ward Prouse is nice and...

Would make a good son-in-law? Not very edgy. Well, I was trying to avoid saying that to not give away there.

No, that's a good bit. I'll get people excited, according to Claude Puell, a good son-in-law.

And then Carl had various digs at me about esoteric signings and philosophy. Yeah, also, surprised by the lack of a Premier League talent in the Academy at Southampton. I don't mean the players in the academy. I mean, the coaching staff. Very interesting. Yeah, that is interesting. Carl talks about that too. Hey, listen, we cover it all. It's actually a really good episode, this one. I very much

enjoyed that. And going into it thinking, I don't care about Southampton, I've left thinking,

I do care because it's interesting. Have I said interesting too many times?

You care more than you did. That's what I'm saying, yeah. Which may still not be very much.

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Yeah? Yeah.

Anyway, with no more further ado, we leave you in the safe and warm hands of Carl Anchor.

Thank you. We leave you in the safe and warm hands of Carl Anchor. Carl, Southampton famously lost 9-0 this season, and for many people, or many observers, that appeared to be a bit of a turning point in the season, results

improved in the aftermath of that. You don't quite think that's where the turning point was,

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