The Athletic FC

Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and today I'm delighted to be joined by John McKenzie.

Hello Joe. It's just us, isn't it? It is just us and we've talked for much longer than when there's more people in the room.

That's right.

And the reason we've talked for much longer is because we've got a very lax substitute teacher in today. Steve Hankey, he's a little unwell. He stayed at home in Cambridgeshire. So instead, we've brought in substitute. It's Darth Grayson. It's Darth Grayson, indeed. I was thinking of a Star Wars quote to respond with.

Oh, but I can't think of any.

No, I'm blanking. What about, um... Man of Christ, I can't think of any. Blast the shit, something the blast doors. Yeah, yeah. Close the blast doors. Open the blast doors. You like that one? Bring him down, Legolas. I think that might be from another fantasy series. God, I can't think of any Star Wars quotes. Must be a shit series. I don't want to be remembered as the Star Wars guy. I've just realized. The Star Wars guy, you can't remember any Star Wars quotes. Anyway, producer Grayson's here today. It took a lot of effort for me not to call

him Steve, but he didn't wind us up and that's why we talked for so long. Maybe Man United Vans, for whom this episode is dedicated, we'll enjoy the episode. Because what did we discuss today? Well, I looked down at my dock for poor Steve's intro, but he's not here, so he hasn't generating it down. So I've got to remember. What would he say? He would say. You would get some

alliteration in. Originally, we were going to talk about Arsenal and Chelsea in this, and I wrote a spiritually inspired Steve line. I wrote this, I wrote Arsenal won, Nill Chelsea in the second leg semi-final of the Carabelle Cup because he always says all the details

of the match unnecessarily. Spiritually, right, Steve, a tremendous victory. Arsenal thundered

home en route to deserve silverware, right, Steve. Now, of course, Steve isn't here, and we didn't

talk about that. Just to be clear, we talked for an hour and something about a completely different

topic, and that's all that's on today's show. And that is this.

What do we think of Michael Carrick so far at Manchester United?

And who do we think should be the next permanent manager, be it Carrick or someone else?

We go through a very long list of managers, and we split them all up into different categories, different buckets.

And that's basically the show, right?

Yeah.

Anything else?

No?

No?

Oh, you've got to push the Discord.

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