Hello,

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer show.

I'm Taylor Rockwell and El Classico season is upon us.

Barcelona will be hosting around Madrid this weekend.

Here to preview that game and talk about a whole bunch of other stuff La Liga related is our pal Graham, Ruffin-Gram.

Thank you so much for being here.

It's good to be on, Taylor. How are you? I'm doing oh well. That's my best answer right there. That's a good indicator as to how I am, but I am excited for Al Classico. I should say, I apologize for this. If you don't mind, I need to thank a sponsor really quickly. Thank you to the Glasgow City Council. Call them today and they'll definitely pick right up. Graham, care to say anything nice about the Glasgow City Council? No, I don't have anything nice to say about Glasgow City Council. No, unfortunately not. I wish I did. I saw it for listeners who have no idea what's happening. As I was scrolling Graham's Twitter feed to see what he had written recently so I could read it so I could feel prepared.

I came upon a two-tweet rant about the Glasgow City Council.

Yeah, I don't know if those tweets reflect particularly well on me, but they have pushed me to the brink, you know,

and trying to renew my parking permit for where I live.

It's not a true reflection of my temperament, but yes, they've

pushed me. I mean, it's fair. I had my brother's like street won't stop flooding and the city

of Richmond has done nothing about it. And I had one of those myself. I appreciate any time those

little moments of life creep into the timeline in a way that you cannot prevent. So, thank you for sharing your frustrations with that. I think you're probably not the only one who has annoyances with municipal government. But we're not going to talk about that. We're going to talk about El Classico. And I kind of want to do it in three chunks. I want to talk Barcelona. I want to talk Madrid. And then the game itself. And since I began by trolling you, I want to start by giving you credit. When last we spoke, I asked you about Sergenio Dest, who then was an Iax player, who was definitely heading to Bayern Munich. You said he was heading to Barcelona. That was your prediction. He got his first start this weekend for Barcelona. So credit to you for predicting where he'd end up and to him for starting.

What have you made of his time at Barcelona so far? He's been very impressive, I have to say.

He's slotted into that team pretty seamlessly. I have to say he's not playing it right back at the moment, which obviously is his natural position, the position that he broke through

at Ajax in. And he's playing it left back, which almost makes it more position that he broke through at Ajax in.

He's playing at left back, which almost makes it more impressive that he's doing so well at Jordi Alba has been injured for a little while.

Barcelona are not really sure about Junior Fearpo and in contrast to Junior Fearpo, who I suppose is comparable in that he's a young player, he's not the finished article.

He came into Barcelona last season and was put into that team pretty early in the season and was a rabbit in the headlights.

And has never really found his groove at Barcelona.

And you contrast that to Dest, who's come in.

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