Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our review of the penultimate round of the Champions League League phase,

in which Benfica and Barcelona went into full insane mode.

Man City went two goals up and watched it all implode.

Adletti edged a bad-tempered affair while Bayern showed precisely zero flare.

Real Madrid got their European groove back and Atalanta showed no signs of slack. And next week,

it's the final round. It's going to be great. It's just like MySpace. Everyone's trying to get

in the top eight. My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today is your friend and my friend, Mr. Taylor. Hello, Taylor. Hello, Ryan. I think given the demographics of our listenership, some people will get that reference, but there is a sizable chunk of listeners who don't know what MySpace is and certainly don't know what a top eight is. I think there's 25% of this podcast who won't get what a top eight is, frankly.

Taylor, at this point.

Of our usual rotation, Graham might know. Graham, were you a MySpace guy? Yeah, MySpace. I got the back end of Myspace, and then it was Bebo. I don't know whether that was a thing in the US, but Bebo was big in... Bebo? That sounds made up. That's a grand maker upper.

I'm familiar.

I thought that was like the Chinese version of Myspace.

I might be wrong.

My memory is foggiel. and that sounds made up that's a Graham maker upper I'm familiar I thought that was like the Chinese version

of Myspace I might be wrong

my memory is foggy on that

I don't know maybe that was one that slipped through the ban

back in the day

but yeah

Myspace and Bebo were the two early networks

I remember they were both terrible

I remember Taylor there was a gym class hero song which rapped about wanting to get into someone's top eight. That's how old I am. Yeah, man. There was a minute. There was a minute when Myspace seemed poised to be the one. And then Facebook did what it did. And now here we are. Woo! We're doing great. We are doing great. It is a power trio on this episode. Joe Lowry, the aforementioned who might not know of the existence of MySpace or Bebo, traveling back from Paris as we speak. Not everyone who traveled to Paris this week had a good time, but Joe certainly did. We'll get to more of that shortly. Before we do, Patreon.com slash total soccer show is the best way to support Total Soccer

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