All right boys and girls welcome back Sam's army episode 2.230. We got a lot to talk about this week. We're going to start out with headlines where we'll put a bow on the Bruce Arena situation. We'll talk about US soccer gambling and dare I say positive news for Everton.

Weekly what if Argentina City just leave it at that primarily we got spurs soaring Chelsea crumbling and beautiful Brighton around the world. The champions leagues back everybody get ready. We got the a little preview of the group stage and then stoppage time with Ivan Tony's best bets and everyone's favorite segment. Go as and then stay tuned for a fun chat with Orange County striker Milani Lasky who is the

reigning Golden Boot champion of the USLC and former roommate and teammate of Tommy's so Tommy and I sat down to discuss with Milan his move which was just announced to the Danish club in New Zealand.

That's not so bad as first pronunciation goes for me anyway so there's fun chat we get into some of the high jinks that those two got in together and of course his move to the Danish league such a fun time now it is time to welcome in this week's panel of beauties will start with Mikey podcast aka Mikey Fowler who's back from becoming one with nature and Zion National Park out in Utah.

So Mikey what was the highlight of the trip and how many drugs were he on at the time.

It was a completely sober trip I'll say that now.

They have fantastic local beers and I just had a few of those in the dogs. It was a hiking trip and and the best part about it was not having any self reception and or wireless internet access for four whole days so I can get back and I peaked text like you being like you okay did you die something happened.

I was worried I was a little worried you're very good about responding text and in a very timely manner something I'm not so good at so you did scare me you scared me.

I only told like 10 people where I was going so a lot of people did have that same what the fuck's wrong with you moment.

All right well let's go I'm glad you're back and you're in one piece and you know you know you you centered your chi and you're ready to get on with with life and North London Darby coming up soon so we'll we'll get into that for too long here.

All right next up we got one of our resident non-twitals don't camper who deserves a pause on a weekly basis for making sure the episodes are you know somewhat presentable but your question don't is so this is something I've been wondering about for a little while I'm glad we finally got somebody who can maybe bring bring some light to the situation.

Oh boy liver pool fan you're a liberal yeah right who do you see as your biggest rival right now.

Oh god I think it's still united I think it would still I still go united one city to and then maybe those years like it was more of a city thing like maybe they were tied for first but I think it's always been United one especially just the way it's gone recently it's it's it's feels so good but yeah I'd say it's probably United one.

Okay and everton isn't even on the list three. Yeah they're just they everton that we're gonna talk about them later but like I'm always like yeah everton's everton they're fine we'll play them twice a year and then I kind of forget about them and then we play them their dirt bags and I'm like I never want to see this team again so it's it's vicious but for the days of the mercy side derby's they are number two but now number two

for now number three. Okay fair enough listen they're they're struggling to stay out on the championship side so I think that probably plays into it as well all right let's go to headlines we're gonna start with Bruce arena I think last time we chatted the news you come out the Bruce arena had resigned there was some rumors flying around about what exactly was going on we still to be fair don't know everything but what we do know is that whatever happened behind closed doors

you know Richie Williams is the the assistant coach at the time who was you know has this long standing relationship with Bruce arena he came forward with some allegations and that's what got re unafired it really sounds like a lot of people have lost a lot of respect for Richie Williams and they don't trust him because you know the team came out so everybody

everybody all the fans are like what's going on what's going on then the team came out and said what's going on we're not going to play until you actually tell us what's going on so we weren't the only ones that were in the dark but this whole situation might he as a as a Bostonian any thoughts on what the situation or you know the situation other than it just sad house sort of how this season has has devolved into you know whatever it is now

it's sad but it's you know it's definitely something that it's a little bit more prevalent than you may think and it seems that the crafts and the ownership of the revolution don't don't have the balls to stick with Bruce in the situation so I look at it more as a disengaged or not wanting to face any heat ownership group

we really hasn't shown an interest in caring about the franchise since it kind of started with the Gillette stadium thing so I will always err on the side of the players and the guy that seems to be well respected in Bruce arena so I'm going to go ahead and blame this one squarely on the ownership bending further demands of what seems to be a very weak person

yeah I don't know what I just it sucks it's just a terrible situation I feel for the fans you know that the have been you know doing the fans the ones that stuck around like they've been through a lot and these last couple seasons it's like the team is right there it's right there

and now this just really feels and I feel for the players as well obviously because they're the ones that ultimately you know feel the brunt of this and not to mention some of the assistant coaches who lost their jobs

over you know a situation that not necessarily in you know directly involved them at least as far as we know so we'll move on big news out of US soccer and for once it will not involve bitching about Greg Berhalter or another US coach

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