{"podcast":{"title":"Tifo Football Podcast","slug":"tifo-football-podcast-539882","podcast_index_feed_id":539882,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/681cccd63e6644d7a3b3065c","website_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/podcasts/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/681cccd63e6644d7a3b3065c/1772100764375-6cb42127-7d78-426a-9f63-e6074d09f8c5.jpeg","author":"The Athletic","episode_count":649,"summary":"In-depth tactical, historical & geopolitical breakdowns of the beautiful game. From the team behind the Tifo Football YouTube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-08T10:19:23.769486+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tifo-football-podcast-539882"},"episode":{"title":"Tottenham's executive failure, Italy's new top four & English teams dominance in Europe","slug":"tottenham-s-executive-failure-italy-s-new-top-four-english-teams-dominance-in-europe","published_at":"2026-05-28T16:29:54+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tifo-football-podcast-539882/tottenham-s-executive-failure-italy-s-new-top-four-english-teams-dominance-in-europe","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tifo-football-podcast-539882","url":"https://shows.acast.com/tifo-football-podcast/episodes/tottenhams-executive-failure-italys-new-top-four-english-tea","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/681cccd63e6644d7a3b3065c/e/6a186c8a29ba6c8fb809916a/media.mp3","summary":"The deeper, executive and management questions that surround the underperformance of clubs like Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Chelsea and AC Milan plus Crystal Palace’s UEFA Conference League success were discussed on the latest Tifo Football podcast. This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features Jon Mackenzie, Jack Pitt-Brooke & Jonathan Shainin and is produced by Steve Hankey. Equator magazine - https://www.equator.org/ Join the Tifo Discord Server - https://discord.gg/6nMGtSyyNM ADRIAN DENNIS / Contributor / AFP via Getty Images Richard Heathcote / Staff / Getty Images Sport via Getty Images 00:00 - a plain t-shirt intro 09:32 - Executive malfunction at Tottenham Hotspur 21:00 - consequences of coach choices 27:54 - Jon’s tea party analogy and how ot make a good football system 33:42 - A break 33:44 - The Rondo  42:35 - Navigating “big club” versus “small club” operational policy 49:40 - the problem with overly reducing football to numbers 1:00:37 - another break 1:00:39 - Crystal Palace won the Conference League! 1:09:52 - Italy’s top four this season Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"The deeper, executive and management questions that surround the underperformance of clubs like Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Chelsea and AC Milan p…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5186,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tifo-football-podcast-539882/episodes/tottenham-s-executive-failure-italy-s-new-top-four-english-teams-dominance-in-europe/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tifo-football-podcast-539882/tottenham-s-executive-failure-italy-s-new-top-four-english-teams-dominance-in-europe.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}