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My name is Ryan Bailey, and today we are looking at the final tranche of Champions League round of 16 first leg matches.

Joining me to do so, it's a man who would never wear a weird jacket with a massive man city crest on the

back while wearing sweatpants and who is not swearing at me on the camera right now, Taylor

Rockwell. Not anymore, I'm not. I wouldn't. I will be stressed honest with you and say I would not.

I would also, I'm going to assume that what Pep did was like see that jacket, think like, oh,

it looks really, really nice. And then just unfortunately for him not check the back, I'm going to assume that what Pep did was like, see that jacket, think like, oh, it looks really, really nice. And then just, unfortunately, for him not check the back, I'm sure it wasn't at all a mandated thing because they want to sell those in the, in the Man City store. I'm sure, but it wasn't just the look of the jacket that bothered me. It was the pairing it with the sweatpants. He had the look of a man who had forgotten to take out the trash cans at 11 p.m.

And threw on anything he had just to go out to the curb. That was what I was getting from that vibe. There's a very, this is a very esoteric reference. There's an old like Charlie Sheen movie when he, I think the entire thing is like he's in a car and he's a getaway driver it might be called the getaway

the only reason why I remember it is because even as a child he was wearing a like blue button

up and black sweatpants and I remember even then being like that's not a thing you're supposed

to do that doesn't look normal you're a weird character and little did I know how right I would be

in terms of the weirdness so I agree with you Ryan sweatpants. Sweatpants with a formal jacket, seems odd. Well, Pep does have Tiger Blood, so maybe it was a trip. Well, joining Taylor and I is a man who would never become the youngest ever Englishman to score in the UAFer Champions League and then declares the Germany a matter of minutes later. It's not too hard to see a lot. It's Joe Lowry. Hello, Ryan. I like my role,

first of all, as the sort of lurker in the background while you and Taylor get things settled

up front and that I can just come in. And usually my intro that you give me is more complimentary

than Taylor's. So I feel like it works out for me for a number of different reasons. Yeah, I think so too. I mean, would you like to wait in on Pep's wardrobe? I'm opening the floor for you, Joe. I mean, you guys have covered it. Taylor, as the childhood fashionista that he was, I think really laid down the law on that one. I don't have anything else to add. How about any sort of German national team players who played for England's youth ranks and who sort of betrayed their soccer roots at any point in the last few days? Anything on that? I think, Ryan, this is better served as an opportunity for you to vent because it seems like you might have a little bit of pent-up aggression, maybe in there somewhere about this whole Musiala situation. So if you want to just take a second, this can be therapeutic for you if you'd like it to be. Deep press. Yeah, I think I've said enough about the whole situation. He was born in Germany. Let's move on, shall we? Ryan, I can give you a silver lining if you want. Go on. This is me, again, the grasping at straws that you know I love to do. Like, I remember, I was trying to write an article when I was still with Paste, like Paste magazine, about like players who could have played for England, like Simone Perotta, who won the World Cup with Italy, I think was born in England and like he didn't even know that. Like they put a statue of him up in whatever small town he's from. And he was like, oh, that's nice. But I remember the list being, I think it was like, because he moved when he was so young. Like, he just wasn't aware. I don't know how the people of the town knew. But I remember it being a very small list and it was a lot of names that I didn't know. It feels like increasingly there are lots of players choosing to play for other

countries or eligible for other countries, which is just to say that I feel like there wasn't

always a lot of youth development coming through England. Maybe there's more of it now? Maybe.

Is that grass big at straws? Maybe he was from Hartlepool. They don't leave the town very much

as we've established before we started recording. With their monkey hanging ways.

Oh boy. Oh, that, that I, we need to do like a four-part story of that, which really we don't. It's a 30-second edit. But still, it blew my mind. Listener, have a little look at a Hartlepool and monkey hanging if you have the time and inclination. In the meantime, why don't we talk about the Champions League? Why don't we start off with a trip to Bucharest, definitely not Budapest, two and a half thousand kilometers from the

Wanda Nara Stadium? I think they call it these days. Athlete against Chelsea. Chelsea coming away

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