Tim Spiers

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

Tim Spiers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 13 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 6.

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

Yeah, and also we kinda paint this sort of, you know, English football was great and good and pure before Obramovich.

I mean it really wasn't, you know.

Yeah, there

Yeah, and and the Premier League that that came, that's what they wanted to build and when they launched it in ninety two, ninety three, all to make money for themselves ultimately.

So Obramovich just sort of tipped the scales massively in one direction.

was good fun.

It was

The Athletic FC Podcast · What If… Guardiola never became a manager? · 30 Aug 2026 podcast

I think Burnley would benefit.

I think he wouldn't have stuck to his guns at Burnley and they would have gone 4-4-2 to stay up and maybe finish top ten.

So I guess we're going to combine nostalgia, which we all like talking about, but also with predictions, which are so huge in football now.

We all love looking back to when football was better, and everybody thinks football was better in the past, no matter what generation you're from.

But we all love predicting things.

It's like...

There are huge industries devoted to predicting things.

All we do on podcasts is speculate

next.

So I guess on this pod, we're sort of going to ponder sort of, you know, what if a manager didn't get sacked?

What if so-and-so didn't score a 90th minute winner?

And look at like alternative realities and histories grounded in facts and knowledge, hopefully.

But

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