Welcome to the total soccer show and our review of Match Day 1 of the Champions League,

in which Rail Madrid got the perfect start against Stuttgart.

The poop hit the fan for Milan.

Bayne was sublime and hit 9.

Villa looked pretty killer.

Inter were saboteurs, thanks to their defenders. And Gerona's sheet wasn't clean because their keeper pulled a Rob Green. My name's Ryan Bailey. It's your friend of mine. It's Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Taylor. Hello, Ryan Bailey. As always, the introduction is perfect. I have no notes. I think the episode can be over. You covered everything. Yay. Maybe we should start you know how like YouTube has those shorts? We should just do podcast shorts. We've invented a new genre. There we are. We can do a version of the voice. I think it is like where if we all do thumbs up or our chairs turn around that it means Ryan has done the job and no more show is needed. We're out of here. Woohoo. Joe Larry's here. Thumbs up or thumbs down, Joe. Yeah, I'm giving that a thumbs up. Also, listener, you could tell that singing live reality TV is on the mind. We had a lengthy American Idol discussion before we started recording. Apparently, that was a thing in England first. I don't believe it. It wasn't called American Idol. That was called something different. Yeah, so it's not the same, really. Yeah, that's true. That's true.

Graham, Rutherland, say, hello, Graham.

Hello, Ryan, Billy. What are we talking about here? British American Idol? What was it? It was called Pop Idol before it came to America. Oh, yeah. I'd kind of forgotten that was a thing, to be honest. I like that Graham pretending, like, before we started recording,

he didn't run through every single winner of American Idol and then rank them based on his enthusiasm and enjoyment for their I don't think I could name a single one he then he then screeched into his microphone that he was going to do dancing with the stars next and that's what we hit star I'm recording I did do the American Idol attraction at Hollywood Studios in Florida up, but that's my only exposure to that whole brand.

I'm going to wait him with a story that might have to get cut because it might not be interesting.

My favourite kind of stories.

Exactly. When Pop Idol first came out with the precursor to American Idol in the UK, it wasn't clear that Simon Cowell was like the ringleader of the whole exercise. It was Nigel Lysko, who's also a fellow sort of producer, Mogul, in the pop space. And the commercial was in the UK, it was just Nigel, Pick Me. And it was these kids saying, pick me, pick me, Nigel. That was like the whole theme. And I remember being at my friend's house and his mum saying, my favourite from that show is that Nigel Pickney. Nigel Pickney is great, isn't he? It's great. Simon Cowell doesn't have a phone? Just an incredible... Have you seen him recently as well? He's like that. Remember that Michael Artetta interview? We thought he might have got stunned by a bee. That's what Simon Carroll looks like these days. Wow. Is it him and Bill Murray? They don't have phones. Bill Murray have to like throw a note at him or something. Well, the reason Simon Cole doesn't have a phone is because he has someone to answer his phone for him. Nice. Nice. Michael Serra as well, I believe, is he has a, maybe has a dumb phone, but he doesn't communicate with telecommunications. Wonderful. We are talking about soccer today, however. Are we? We are indeed. Full disclosure, listener. This section is being recorded a little earlier in the day before the Thursday games. So we're going to talk about the Tuesday and Wednesday games. And then we're going to add the Thursday section on later on. So look out for that. In the meantime, patreon.com slash total soccer show is where you'll find our

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the way, way back, Machine Graham, and go all the way back to Tuesday for Milan 1. Liverpool 3. A simple win for Liverpool in the way way back machine graham and go all the way back to tuesday for milan one

liverpool three a simple win for liverpool in the end this was although christian pulisic

kicking it off in style for the rosson airy with that lovely opening go after three minutes uh graham

liverpool uh liverpool uh yeah this was a good response by Liverpool. What a lead in there.

Thank you for that, Ryan.

Great response by Liverpool after the poor result in performance against Forrest at the weekend.

Although for the first 20 minutes or so, as you kind of reference, Ryan, this looked like

being another difficult game for Liverpool who fell behind early on, thanks to that,

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