In some countries, the 2020-21 season is well underway while in others, the opening weekend just took place earlier this week.

In this episode, we talk a little bit about how the race for 2nd place in this years Ligue 1 could be very interesting between Monaco, Marseille, Lyon, and Lille. We also talk about the Scottish Premier League as the race between Celtic and Rangers is as promising as ever. Lastly, we rant a bit about why the UEFA Nations League should not exist - 2 years after it started, a lot of people have still not understood its purpose or don't know how it works. We try to look at its format and explain why it came into existence.

Listen to the episode and let us know what you think!

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Music - Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on audionautix.com

The Inside Forward's podcast, TIFCast is back with a special guest: amateur footballer and avid football fan, Chirayu Patil.

Since TIFCast is a football analysis and opinion podcast, we had a guest with an inspiring local playing background over who gave us his thoughts on football analysis about global as well as local level football. We also speak to him about football fan culture - how fans supporting a club 1000s of km away works.

Listen to him to know about how much football is analysed locally, and how Cristiano Ronaldo made him fall in love with football.

Give it a listen, and subscribe to TIFCast for a new episode every 2 weeks.

Hello! Who doesn't love poking fun at rival fans after a trophy loss or when your club gets one over their clubs? But there are some clubs whose fans take more slack others. Sometimes, they are so depressed that their fans poke fun at their own clubs. They've just been that bad for a long period of time
We take a look at 4 such clubs - FC Schalke 04, Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal, and FC Barcelona. In the episode, we analyse their situation and suggest what the clubs should do in order to improve.

Listen and let us know in the comments who you like poking fun at the most! Be sure to follow the podcast to never miss out on an episode! Follow The Inside Forward on social media

00:17 - Episode intro - explaining meme clubs, examples
01:44 - FC Schalcke 04 - financial troubles, selling players for free
7:00 - Spurs - poor signings, José the 'Humble One'
13:00 - Arsenal - Defence, Mikel Arteta, the board
20:11 - FC Barcelona - the board, mismanagement, poor transfers