Hello,

Hello everyone.

This is the Total Soccer Show.

I'm Ryan Bailey.

The Champions League group stage has come and gone a bit quicker than usual.

And joining me to go through all the continental action with a fine tooth comb

is the tactics tour to force, the formation sensation, the XG OG, Sam Tai. Sam, how are you, sir? I'm good, I'm good. That is quite the intro. That's even better than Jack does it on my own podcast, so I appreciate the effort. I really enjoyed writing that this morning. I hope you'd enjoy it. The XG OG I was particularly pleased with. Yeah, for sure. The formation sensation is pretty good too.

Don't derail any of this. This is all 10 out of 10, every part. So Sam, we go back a long way in the early days of Bleacher Report soccer coverage. I want to say in 2013-ish, we used to do a lot of videos together. We've hung out a lot. We used to go on Sirius XM together back when they dained it appropriate for me to have the airwaves over there. And we've also done something very special together. We've had a Nando's together, which is the greatest bond that two friends can have, right? Absolutely. I was hoping you were going to mention that. If not, I was going to jump straight in with. And actually, we've done something more important than, you know, work together. But yeah, that Nandoes. We've had several Nandoes, actually. We've had more than one. But every time Ryan drops into London, we try and get there. And I'm sure America has heard all about Nandoes. I'm sure some of America, they must have Nandoes now, right? Surely we've got to that point.

I've been to two different Nandoes in this country. They seem to be concentrated around D.C. and sort of Maryland. There's one in Chicago. I've been to one in Chicago and I've been to one in D.C. But I've looked at the Nando's USA website and I sort of send them a tweet every now and then saying, come to where I live. I want Nandoes.

Do you just go around the country looking for Nandoes?

Is this one of those Eddie Stobart situation? tweet every now and then saying, come to where I live. I want Nando's. Yeah, do you just go around the

country looking for Nandoes? Is this one of those Eddie Stobart situations? Yeah, I do Nando's tours. Yeah, and I take photos and I have a little logbook. It's a thing. It's a thing, Sam. Anyway, I've got a couple of things to talk about with you before we get into the action of the Champions League group stage, Sam.

Some tweets I've seen from you, particularly this morning.

First one... of things to talk about with you before we get into the action of the Champions League group stage, Sam.

Some tweets I've seen from you, particularly this morning. First one, you appear to have a Jack

Greelish signed shirt in your possession. How did that come to you? Yeah, a rich reward for six

years of Jack Greenish propaganda on every medium available to me, audio, video, written, whatever.

I also shout at people in the streets when they're not looking to make sure that they're

aware that Jack Greenish is one of the most wonderful players. Yeah, he's a favourite of mine.

And thanks to his brother, Kevin, who I loosely know over the course of a pandemic, I have managed

to order a couple of Asun Villa shirts to

the Greenish family, have them signed and eventually sent back and they actually arrived this

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