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Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

Americans headed towards relegation, unconventional jersey numbers, Aston Villa’s turnaround, and more listener questions

Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

TSS

Sports, News, Sports News, Soccer

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Taylor, Graham, and Joe dive into a host of questions that you all provided! You can find the full list of questions that we tackled down below:

1) Which American spending next season in the 2. Bundesliga would be the least harmful to their career?

2) Is Harry Maguire really as bad as he’s looked this season?

3) Of the major soccer broadcasters in the U.S., whose coverage do you enjoy the most (and the least)?

4) What’s behind Aston Villa’s change in form?

5) Is there a game that prompted you to cry tears of joy or tears of sadness?

6) Why do La Liga teams have striped jerseys? 

7) Why does Thomas Müller wear the number 25? And what’s with all the unconventional numbers around the world?

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0:00.0

Hello,

0:02.0

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

0:25.0

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and on today's episode, we've got seven listener questions that need some answering.

0:30.4

Ryan Bailey is traveling back to Europe, so he is not with us today, hence why I am talking right now, but I am.

0:36.5

Join by two lovely gentlemen with us today,

0:39.4

is a fellow who I'm assuming is taking a break from his wall of football screens.

0:43.5

It's Graham Ruffin. Hi, Graham.

0:45.6

Hello, Taylor. How are you? Yeah, it is a wall of football screens. I quite like this

0:50.7

Twitter trend that's developing of people tagging me in whenever they have

0:55.5

their own kind of comparable setup. And I feel like I am the, I've become the judge of that.

1:01.6

So yeah, I enjoy those tweets. Keep them coming. Actually, that begs the question. When you see other

1:06.8

people setups, do you get jealous or do you look at that like amateurs? Like what's the vibe,

1:11.2

Grant? So some of, most of them are just admiration because to be perfectly honest, I am

1:18.7

quite confident in my own set up. But then Sean Rosales, who works at ESPN and I think as a listener

1:23.5

of the show, obviously has that professional ESPN set up, and when he tweeted that

1:29.3

at me, I did go, oh, I wish I had that. That is a lot better, actually, than what I have got.

1:35.3

And Graham. Sean, invite me one day so I can just enjoy that wall of screens.

1:41.7

It is always impressive to see, like, the professional setup when they've got all the screens. We went in and watched Extra Time Record and all of the stuff they've got going on. I assure you we don't have nearly as many cameras or monitors or producers. We do have a team of them in the background. I just don't let them do anything. There's just 12 people sitting around in my bedroom right now. Graham, do you have to, methods in place for eye fatigue? I know this is a

2:02.3

strange way to begin the show, but I do wonder this. Like, staring at screens all day, how do you

2:06.4

alleviate that? Do you just go stare at the sun, the sun that occasionally exists in Scotland?

2:11.4

There's a son in Scotland. News to me. I mean, you do realize Taylor that I am, I am ill all the time, and so I don't take care

2:22.0

of any part of my body. So no, I fatigue is not something that I've ever taken any measures against.

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