Welcome everybody to Soccer 101. It is our first Soccer 101 of the new year new year and to celebrate I barely got the introduction

out my name is taylor rockwell joining me today mr ticket buyer himself it's graham rothfin

hello graham hello taylor how are you you ready to talk about the extreme capitalism of the richest

league in the world i can't wait i am. And a view behind the curtain.

Generally, we both do our research for these episodes.

Graham, sometimes, oftentimes, a little bit more than me.

But I tried to come in less of like a doughboy's approach of one person doesn't know.

One person knows everything.

This time round, I have done very minimal preparation because this is a question, the one we're going to answer today, that we get a lot.

I have heard, explained a lot, and I still don't fully understand and have never had to do myself, so haven't fully learned.

So I'm going to try to embrace it today, but come at it from a completely ignorant standpoint.

How does one buy Premier League tickets, Graham Ruffin?

It is a question we get all the time on the Total Saka show. We have answered a couple different times, but I'm excited to get it all

sort of laid out today on this episode. I thought you were going to say you've bought all the tickets

when you were talking about your research. Oh, Taylor's bought 50,000 tickets at the Emirates for the rest of the season. Yes, I, a recent billionaire, I'm excited to announce that that is the first thing I did. I'm no longer billionaire. I shudder to think the cost of that, a single arsenal tickets like a hundred pounds. But like people, people know I do a show about soccer in my general life. And so I will get a like,

hey, messy move to Miami. That seems like a big deal. Hey, the US is getting the World Cup. That seems like a big deal. And the other one I get all the time from friends and family who are going to England is like, oh, hey, we're going to be there. How do we get tickets? And I usually forward that question straight to Graham and Ryan.

So this is similar in

spirit and principle to

not every American does this, but sometimes when I go to America, because I'm a Scottish person, some Americans will think that I know everyone in Scotland.

And so they will say, oh, my cousin lives in Aberdeen. Do you know?

And they look at me as if, do you know them? And I go, no, I do not know who your cousin is in Aberdeen. There's six million people in Scotland. It's a similar principle, right, Taylor, where we cover soccer for a living. We're very lucky to do that. People think we know how to get tickets for every game. and we do not because there's a lot of demand for them.

We sure don't.

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