Ep 2.242: Bundesliga Selling Out, Aston Villa's Title Hopes & The War on Refs
Sam's Army
Samuel Army
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
HEADLINES: US and Mexico confirm joint bid for 2027 Women's World Cup and Bundesliga votes in favor of exploring sale of future broadcast revenues to private equity to better compete with Premier League
WHAT IF: Ted Lasso was flipped on it's head and you had to pick a Premier League coach to come to the US and coach an American sport (eg NFL, NBA or MLB)?
PREMIER LEAGUE: Aston Villa burnishes title contender qualifications by beating City and Arsenal in a matter of days; should Pochettino and/or Ten Hag be on the hot seat; if Newcastle should be hitting the panic button and wtf has gotten into Everton?
ROUND THE WORLD: giving Columbus Crew their deserved flowers and how much (if any) grief does MLS deserve for punishing LAFC supporter's group shenanigans and what to watch in Champions League this week
STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody, welcome back Sam's Army episode 2.242. |
| 0:09.0 | We got a lot to talk about this week. |
| 0:10.4 | We're going to start out with headlines, where we'll talk Women's World Cup 2027 and Bundesliga media deals weekly what if the reverse Ted Lasso |
| 0:20.0 | primarily we'll talk good, nana, good. Great evening, Chelsea or Everton and whether |
| 0:26.5 | Liverpool might just kill United this coming weekend. Round the world, MLS Cup |
| 0:31.8 | Champions League, Gerona and Santos, and then Stappage Time with Ivan Tony's best bets and everybody's favorite segment, Goa's. |
| 0:40.0 | Now, time to welcome in this week's panel of scouse heavy beauties starting with Tyler Terons who is just getting started enjoying his off season, which begs the question, Mr. Terrence, how does, you know, a full-time |
| 0:57.8 | analyst commentator spend your off season? You know what other than playing pickup |
| 1:04.8 | basketball what do you do? |
| 1:07.8 | Pick up soccer |
| 1:09.8 | do some serious XM radio hosting which is fortunately falling into my lap recently. |
| 1:16.4 | And I've told you about my novel in the works, right? Tommy Brewster, the young... |
| 1:21.5 | It's been a while. Yeah, Tommy Brewster the young it has been a while yeah Tommy Brewster the the concept of Tommy Brewster is back in my mind the actual execution of whether or not I'm going to get a single page down this off season, it's still up in the air. |
| 1:32.8 | I started this, oh God, I started during COVID, |
| 1:37.2 | but I got like 45 pages down, I was cooking. |
| 1:39.8 | And then right when I had to make a couple decisions |
| 1:41.9 | on some character development, I just hit |
| 1:43.5 | writer's block and that writer's block has lasted the better part of three years. |
| 1:47.1 | So we're trying to get back on the horse. |
| 1:49.8 | That's the big project. |
| 1:51.0 | I promised myself I was going to finish that book in the next two or three months, but we'll see. |
| 1:54.4 | All right, I like it. I like we need an update on Tommy Brewster one of these weeks. We won't get it from you now. We'll give you a couple weeks to sort of get that writer's block unblocked and have the words flowing but we need an update. I love that. I still love I love that you're doing a novel and I can't believe I've got I'm not doing a novel. It's literally in three years since I've written out a single work. |
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