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Thank you. Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and welcome back to the glorious return of the Champions League.

Yes, it's back next week.

The European Super League has so far failed to kill it for now.

And we're getting into the round of 16 knockout phase in this episode.

So, who are the favourites?

How much has the field changed since we

last played this competition in those heady pre-World Cup days? And what should we be excited about?

My name's Ryan Bailey, joining me today a man whose team plays on Thursday nights, but that's all right.

Taylor Rockwell, hello. Hello, yeah, we were talking about this in the weekend review. They play at least on two Thursday nights, but going up against a resurgent Barcelona team that are dominating La Liga and will be comfortable heading into that one. I'm not sure how many more Thursdays that we play in. That feels poised for an against the old United victory, doesn't it? Doesn't it? Doesn't it?

I would be fine with that. That would be lovely for me. Let's hope so. Let's hope so. United can avoid getting into scrums and brawls and all that good stuff and just play some good football. Excellent stuff. Well, good that I've led this Champions League episode by talking about a different competition with you, Taylor. So let's get... Got to.

We'll get slightly back on track with a man who's going to be spending Valentine's Day in the most romantic way possible, watching dual feeds of PSG versus Biden and Spurs

versus Milan.

Graham Rutherford, hello.

Hello, I mean, PSG and is it Bayern Munich that they're playing in the round of 16?

They're pretty romantic teams, so probably more romantic than what I'd usually be doing on Valentine's Day night,

which is just lying on the sofa and watching reruns of Scottish Premiership games from the weekend.

Graham, if you did organize some elaborate, like, dinner date for Valentine's Day, my assumption is that your wife would become suspicious, basically. Like, it wouldn't be received as, like, oh, that's nice. What's wrong? What have you done? Yeah. Exactly. What is wrong? Who is she? Like, any time you walk into the room and I always think, like, when the main light is on in the middle of the room you go, uh-oh, something's up.

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