The Athletic FC Podcast Network.

Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast.

I'm Ruben Pinder.

And today I'm joined by JJ Bull.

Keep on trucking.

And John McKenzie.

Do you know who I'm really looking forward to talking about today?

Adam Wharton. I can't wait to talk about Adam Waterarton. I have a correction to make as well. I compared Athletical Madrid to like a snapping turtle. I think it's actually more like a ferocious wild cat that protects its young. So it lives in a cave on it, and my head lives in a cave on a mountain,

and it protects the young from the outside of the cave and then attacks when it needs to.

So it will go into the village to take, you know, children or other animals, whatever,

and then take it back to the cave, but then it protects the young.

What a trailer that is for what we spoke about today.

Today we spoke about the outsiders for Champions League qualification, the non-traditional sides.

Four of them specifically, Nottingham Forest, are they highly evolved?

Tactical slugs and should they become a horse?

What else did we speak about?

Brighton and Hove Albion, going well in the league, but now definitely out of the FA Cup after losing to Forrest on penalties.

Fingler's oven gloves feature heavily before we play the separation game.

There's a sentence I never thought I'd read out loud.

Then we talk about Fulham, who are on other side, doing well in the league, with a disappointing cup exit,

and John's favourite Premier League team

AFC Bournemouth and their chaotic football and can the cherries reach the top of the Champions League cake Steve that's so bad then we play points of bad and that's about it but yeah we didn't get to speak about

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