Ep 2.240: Expanding VAR, City vs Liverpool + MLS Playoffs f/t STL City's Tim Parker

Sam's Army

Samuel Army

Soccer, Sports

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

HEADLINES: FIFA discusses expanding use of VAR, Premier League votes *against* temporary ban on loan deals between "affiliated" clubs and MLS looks to add 4th DP slot

WHAT IF: the Premier League did away with designated home and away sections... net plus or minus?

PREMIER LEAGUE: takeaways from City/Liverpool draw and Spurs "encouraging" loss to Villa, plus Power Rankings and previewing United's chance to shush the haters at Newcastle

ROUND THE WORLD: Tim's opinion on MLS's playoff format plus reactions to VAR-heavy controversies in Cincinnati/Philly and Houston/SKC games, plus a quick look at this week's marquee Champions League matchups

STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets (OverTrain cooking with thermonuclear gas again!) and GOAWs

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back everybody, Sam's Army episode 2.240, we get a lot to talk about this week.
0:10.4	We're going to start out with headlines where we will talk about
0:13.0	Premier League loan deals, VAR, and MLS DP slots. Weekly what if? Home and
0:20.4	away sections will be the theme.
0:23.7	Then we will actually twist, tweak our normal round of events here
0:30.1	and we're gonna hit round of the world first with MLS playoffs and Champions League.
0:34.9	And then we'll hit Premier League with City, Liverpool, and of course all the games to come this weekend.
0:40.0	And then we'll finish up with Stobich Town with Ivan Tony's best bets where the overtrain is back
0:44.5	cooking on thermonuclear gas again feeling good about it and everyone's favorite segment of
0:49.5	course Goa's. So now it's time to welcome in this week's panel of beauty starting with our resident Tweedles. Tweal Number 1, Mitchell Goolay, aka overtime, Mitch, fresh off a Thanksgiving day dinner, I assume with the fam.
1:04.0	And everybody's got a Thanksgiving Day dinner hot take and I'm sure you're no different.
1:10.0	You know, something you like, something you hate, whatever.
1:12.0	What's your, what's your hot take about
1:13.7	Thanksgiving Mitch I'm not a cranberry sauce guy I wouldn't call that a hot take
1:19.0	it's just it's just not for me you You can keep it. I was really unhappy with the amount of Travis Kelsey and
1:27.3	Taylor Swift's talk at this Thanksgiving. I think because I work in sport that I am inundated with it all the time and I know what they had for breakfast on any given day.
1:37.0	But as people who are not consuming sports content 24-7, my family members felt like they needed to share all of their thoughts with me and I didn't have the heart to tell them that I just didn't want to talk about this anymore that I didn't want to discuss these two individuals and every single part of their life anymore. I was real tired, like before the main course was even served, I was exhausted. Don't talk to me about Travis Kelsey or Taylor Swift downer again.
2:02.0	So the new like, you know, why aren't you married with kids?
2:05.1	Question is now like, let's talk about.
2:07.6	They know.
2:08.6	I've literally never brought a significant other to a family holiday. I have a 27 year old track record of that and that will continue
2:17.6	until I get married and then they're not going to find out until I bring her.
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