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My name is Taylor Rockwell, and we've got Champions League to discuss.

Byron Munich brought in Tuchel to steady the ship, but that looks less likely after

Mani busted Sane's lip.

Man City, meanwhile, look imperious, but as always, we have to ask why Pep looks so serious. Frank Lampart's Chelsea haven't scored in six hours, while Vinny Jr's performance has Graham wanting to bring him flowers. Napoli saw red in their clash with Milan, and an all-northin Italy semifinal could soon be on. I didn't want to rhyme Milan with Milan. Because Inter defended their way to a two-no win on the road, and Romolulu Lukaku carried his share of the load. Ben Fika's manager, Roger Schmidt, had 12 players on the bench, but only made one change. Inter fans say he's a mensch. Overall, it was a series of games that had me feeling glee. Was it the same for you, Mr. Joe Lowry? Oh, Taylor, that was so good. I got more glee from that intro than I did from watching these games, but I did really enjoy watching a lot of these games. I love the, the Sanay Manet bit in there is great. Like, that is, that was the most unexpected tweet that I saw coming in and preparing for these games. Right. I guess people, people are just punching people now? Because didn't we talk about another altercation on the weekend review? I don't know what's going on right now, guys. People are getting feisty. End of the season, feistyness can be expected. Teammate on teammate feistiness, less so. So that was Joe Lowry. British pundits praised Chelsea's heroic efforts with only 10 men. How say you, Mr. Graham Ruthven? Hi, Taylor Rockwell.

I mean, wow, I can't quite believe that I've been rhymed in the same sentence as beaty sport British

pundits.

It's not usually the sort of company I like to keep, particularly after the narrative they

were trying to spin last night.

They were trying to tell us that this was some sort of heroic Chelsea

performance and that they still had a golden opportunity in this quarterfinal of making it

through. I mean, nothing to do with the fact that the pundits on duty for the game were Rio Ferdinand

and Joe Cole and Glenn Hoddle, who are all very close friends of Frank Lampard. Nothing to do

with that at all. Nothing at all for sure.

It, that was, I did not watch that one. I watched the other game. And so I then, like,

seeing all that coverage was very confused because I was getting messages for my friends

saying, this is terrible for Chelsea. Chelsea looked like they are the JV squad. And then hearing that coverage

and seeing some of that coverage made me confused. So Graham, I'm glad you're here to correct that

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