Tim Spiers

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2,293 appearances 13 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6 Sep

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The Athletic FC Podcast · What If... Abramovich bought Spurs instead of Chelsea? · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

Yeah, so what if we're sort of combining like nostalgia with like predictions, two of our favourite things in football, I guess.

To kind of look at sliding doors moments from from history.

So we're gonna sort of ponder what if a manager didn't get sacked, or what if a team didn't miss that chance to win a trophy in like the ninetieth minute?

And then we're gonna look at like the alternative timelines and the parallel universes that might follow.

So last week

Week um we had a look at a a pepless world, what if you never became a uh uh manager?

And all sorts of interesting things happened.

So uh Jose Mourinho won the title with Man United in nineteen in uh twenty seventeen eighteen.

Yeah.

Uh Virgil van Dijk won a Ballon d'Or because Leonard Messi just never became the player that he was, and Vincent Company uh enlisted direct four four two who

So there's all sorts of shit out there.

So much going down,

Well how did Chelsea even look him up, you

So United have just won the league under Fergie, who was contemplating retirement around this time.

In fact, if you play uh a lot of people probably listen to this, would have played Championship Manager O two, O three.

It's like a like a cult game that lotta people played around that time.

And uh Sir Alex Ferguson always retires a year into that game, and David O'Leary always takes over sometimes Martin O'Neill.

Um and yeah, obviously Arsenal won the league the year before and the year after, with the Invincibles, you're right in the middle of like of that rivalry, United Arsenal, Fergie and Wenger.

Um and other teams who were sort of around Newcastle, finished third that year under Bobby Robson, Alan Shearston.

Still knocking around, Liverpool were fifth under Gerald Houlier.

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