Ep 2.244: Super League 2.0, Turkish Super Cup Drama & Premier League's Hot vs Not

Sam's Army

Samuel Army

Soccer, Sports

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

HEADLINES: Fuck Soccer Get Money European Super League is back but is anyone actually buying it; is it fair for United fans to get a little excited now that Sir Jim Ratcliffe has finally bought in; pluses and minuses of MLS following Japan's J-League by realigning the schedule with Europe

WHAT IF: Pulisic leads the USMNT to back-to-back World Cup titles in 2026 and 2030 cementing his name in soccer lore... should the USSF retire his #10 jersey?

PREMIER LEAGUE: making sense of a busy holiday period including what to makes of the recent risers (eg West Ham and Wolves) and fallers (eg, Arsenal and Newcastle), plus some FA Cup games to watch this weekend

ROUND THE WORLD: fallout from the last minute cancellation of Turkish Super Cup due to 11th hour demands by Saudi hosts plus some transfer chatter involving Johnny Cardoso to Betis, Hugo Lloris to LAFC (!?) and Antonee Robinson to Liverpool

STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets where the Over Train is cooking with thermonuclear gas again and GOAWs

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0:00.0	All right, everybody, welcome back Sam's Army episode 2. 244, and we got an extra lot to talk about this week.
0:14.3	Now, we're back from our little holiday break.
0:17.1	So we'll start off with headlines.
0:19.9	We'll be featuring Super League 2.0, Ratcliffs United and Japan falling into line.
0:27.0	Weekly What If is Christian Polisic related.
0:30.0	Always good to talk a little baby Jesus.
0:32.0	Primarily, we got a lot to catch up on after a busy couple of weeks with a lot of interesting results,
0:39.0	including Arsenal and Kiran Trippier being bad boys and wolves being a good boy.
0:46.7	Then we got round the world with more turkey related shenanigans and some transfer
0:51.9	chatter and finally stopish time with Ivan Tony's best bets where the
0:56.4	over train is back cooking with thermonuclear gas boys and girls hold on to your butts. We are hot we are hot and we're going to get a little Randy this week we'll see and then of course tough to top that but we'll try with everybody's favorite segment Goa's. Now it is time without further
1:15.2	ado to welcome in this week's panel of beauties where appropriately we're
1:19.5	joined by representatives from the Tweedel and scouser communities, respectively, starting with
1:27.8	Mitchell Goulay, aka overtime.
1:29.8	Mitch, who let me start off by offering condolences your grandmother passed and so very
1:38.2	sorry to hear that I'm sure she lived a long in you know life, but I got a question for you based on your, you know, you're going through
1:47.6	other stuff and going through the various, you know how you do with with the with the passionate grandparents.
1:53.3	Yeah, what's the what's the sort of most notable nickname that you came across from the the week of going through
2:00.4	You know all over all the cool stuff from her house.
2:03.8	Yeah, I appreciate it.
2:06.2	We were just, we were dealing with the estate and all of her house and shit.
2:10.2	The most notable things, she was robbed like two years ago of all of her jewelry and yet she still had like pounds and pounds of jewelry to go through. I was a
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