Hello, hello everybody and welcome to the total Soccer Show. My name is Taylor Rockwell and today I'm once again joined by the one, the only Mr. Sam Thai of BR and Ranks FC. Sam, thanks for being here.

Oh, no problem, buddy. Always a pleasure to jump on with you. I did not Ron Burgundy that one. I do always write out my introduction. In this one,

I had a question mark instead of an exclamation point. I'm glad I did not begin with Sam. Thanks for being here.

I went with the good one, I'm going to say.

Nice one, nice one. Thanks very much. Happy to join you. We are going to talk about this week's

Champions League games, but first, it's been a dramatic time since last we spoke, and I'm not

just talking about Olympiacos, getting a late, late winner against Marseille. You have a new show.

Can you tell us a bit about what's gone on there?

It is something of a new show. It's also an old show, I guess. I mean, my co-hosts, Dean and Jack,

the three of us together, we were BR Football, Ranks, Bleach Reports, Football, Soccer

podcast for close to two years. And Dean and Jack left the company, left Bleach report last month

or this month. It's been a bit of a blur, along with quite a lot of other people actually

in something of a reshuffle. So BR removing the football operation over to New York. If you're

an aspiring social producer, there may be some jobs open. But unfortunately, quite a lot of my friends have left the company. I'm still there for now, but they dropped the podcast at least. So we were going to continue with that for sure. So we've rebadged it, as Alan Partridge would say. And we have become Ranks FC. And we're carrying on. Wednesday shows, free to access, Spotify, Apple Music, all that sort of stuff. And we're also on Patreon doing Monday and Friday drops and some newsletter stuff. So if you are a listener and you haven't already heard, obviously, we're on Patreon. We'd love you to support us. We need to feed Dean's children. That's the line I'm going with. It's worked really well so far. People are just handing cash over my guy. As soon as you start talking about feeding kids, you know, it must be the Marcus Rashford effect. A lot of good that guy's done for a lot of reasons. And he's helping me out too. There you go. And then from a season perspective, you all do usually do your ranking system. Is it usually you who does the ranking? I feel like most of the episodes I've listened to, it's you who has the rank down or somebody else who's competing against you. It's very rare that I don't, okay, create the ranking. Sometimes we have a guest on to rank stuff. That's cool. But if it's just the three of us, if we have no guess, it's almost always me. I have to do most

of the work, Taylor. This is just the way it is. I've got used to this. Every now and then we get

Dean to do something in terms of a ranking. He's our transfer insider. So when it comes to the

transfer window, like obviously I hand the keys over. But you know, I complain about it,

but I'm quite protective over the rankings. You know, it's my thing. It's my thing.

So I promise if this comes across as like a hack question, but I do mean it sincerely.

Like, are you a rankings person in your like general life?

Like, do you, are you ranking your books and your favorite like tea mugs or is it just football where you enjoy the ranking?

I'd like to think I'm not ranking everything in general

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