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Ring for Analysis: The solution to Italy's football crisis

5/16/20261 hr 3 min

Sassuolo, a tiny football club in Italy, are thriving. At a time when it feels as though Italian football is in crisis, Sassuolo are providing hope that some clubs are doing it the right way.

On this episode, Jon & Joe perform Ring for Analysis on this article by James Horncastle: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7254743/2026/05/07/italy-football-crisis-sassuolo-carnevali

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Clips

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Rethinking TV Money Incentives
The Cost Of Developing Talent
What Makes Romance In Football
Early De Zerbi At Spurs
Auto‑Dub Weirdness On YouTube
Sassuolo’s Tiny Town Triumph
Berardi Chose Europe At Home
‘The Little Anchovy’ Explained

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. John McKenzie· Panelist0:00

    [intro music] Hello, and welcome- [laughs] To the Tifo Football Podcast. It's me. Hi.

  2. Joe Devine· Host0:07

    Hello, and welcome. That's right. How do I do it normally?

  3. John McKenzie· Panelist0:10

    Hello.

  4. Joe Devine· Host0:11

    Hello, and welcome to the Tifo Football Podcast. I'm Joe Devine, and today I'm delighted to be joined by John McKenzie.

  5. John McKenzie· Panelist0:19

    Hello.

  6. Joe Devine· Host0:20

    Hello. All right. How's it going?

  7. John McKenzie· Panelist0:21

    Yeah, good.

  8. Joe Devine· Host0:22

    Now, what are we doing today, John?

  9. John McKenzie· Panelist0:23

    Italy.

  10. Joe Devine· Host0:24

    Yes, we're doing ring for ana...

  11. John McKenzie· Panelist0:26

    Oh.

  12. Joe Devine· Host0:26

    I'm not just doing Italy. [both laughing] That was, that was the wrong answer.

  13. John McKenzie· Panelist0:29

    Oh.

  14. Joe Devine· Host0:30

    It was sort of the right answer but also wrong. We're doing ring for analysis.

  15. John McKenzie· Panelist0:34

    Yes.

  16. Joe Devine· Host0:34

    Now, what's ring for analysis? Here's what it is. I read an article published by The Athletic, and John rings a little bell that sounds like this [bell dinging] when he wants me to pause so he can offer some analysis.

  17. John McKenzie· Panelist0:46

    Mm-hmm.

  18. Joe Devine· Host0:46

    And you're right, John, the next bit is what are we doing?

  19. John McKenzie· Panelist0:48

    Italy.

  20. Joe Devine· Host0:49

    We're doing Italy. This th- We-we... Today we're reading an article that was written by James Horncastle. It's all about Sassuolo, who are a Serie A team, uh, and who are a team, uh, who have a model of doing things the right way.

  21. John McKenzie· Panelist1:01

    Mm.

  22. Joe Devine· Host1:01

    Yes, at a time when football i-in Italy is in a bit of a crisis as a result of the fact that they're not gonna be at the World Cup. Um, i-this is, this is a story that gives James Horncastle some hope about football there. Now, John, what did we talk about on today's episode?

  23. John McKenzie· Panelist1:16

    We talked about lots of things. We talked about one-club men.

  24. Joe Devine· Host1:20

    One-club players.

  25. John McKenzie· Panelist1:21

    Is that what we call them?

  26. Joe Devine· Host1:22

    Yeah.

  27. John McKenzie· Panelist1:22

    One-club players.

  28. Joe Devine· Host1:22

    Yeah.

  29. John McKenzie· Panelist1:23

    Uh, we talked a little bit about, um, Roberto De Zerbi.

  30. Joe Devine· Host1:27

    Oh, yeah. We talked about Roberto De Zerbi.

  31. John McKenzie· Panelist1:29

    Because he was

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