Five games to make anyone love soccer, midseason managerial magic, and more! | Listener Questions
Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...
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4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this listener questions episode, we examine which Premier League managers have arrived midseason and successfully turned teams around following Enzo Maresca’s sacking, before asking whether Wilfried Nancy’s disastrous reign at Celtic did any real damage to MLS’s global reputation. We then mark Weston McKennie’s 200th Juventus appearance by exploring other players who have changed squad numbers three or more times at the same club, build our best possible Starting XI made entirely of players whose names end in “inho,” and finish by hopping in a Time Machine to choose five must-see matches from the past decade guaranteed to make a first-time viewer fall in love with soccer.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the total soccer show in our latest batch of listener questions. |
| 0:24.3 | On this episode, we're looking at Western McKenney's vast array of squad numbers. |
| 0:28.8 | We're looking at successful managers who've come in mid-season, |
| 0:32.2 | and we're asking if Wilfred Nonsi has damaged Major League Soccer and much more. |
| 0:36.4 | My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today, the Taylor Rockwells here. Hello, more. My name's Ryan Bailey joining me today. |
| 0:38.6 | The Taylor Rockwell's here. Hello, Taylor. Hello, the Ryan Bailey. How are you, my friend? I'm doing wonderfully well on this. Checks notes Saturday morning. How about you? Of course. Of course. Always strange to record on Saturday mornings. But, you know, when we all agreed that we couldn't go a full two days without seeing each other's faces. It was really the only |
| 0:54.8 | option. Exactly. And this one's actually live. It doesn't matter when you're listening to it. It's live as well. You actually got me there for a second. I was like, wait, are we back in the Christmas perineum? Is it actually Saturday? Oh, Graham's. Graham, my and hello, you've gone and used a excellent term for that period of the year. Thank you very much. Hello, how are you? |
| 1:11.8 | I'm good, Ryan. It's a more gentle term than the one you used the last time we spoke about this. Off air, yes. No, I think it was on here. It was very much in an episode. Did you say perineum? Oh, wow. Yeah, Taylor, you missed all this. Okay. |
| 1:27.8 | All right. |
| 1:28.2 | Cool. |
| 1:29.6 | Just making sure I heard that correctly. |
| 1:30.0 | All right. The period between Christmas and New Year is the in-between period. |
| 1:33.6 | Ah, yes. |
| 1:34.1 | Okay. |
| 1:34.9 | Ryan has a definite words for it. |
| 1:36.5 | A nickname for a Gucci-A-W? |
| 1:38.3 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:38.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.9 | Not one yet. |
| 1:40.2 | Hello, Joe Larry, how are you? Was it not Graham who said it? I swear it was Graham. |
| 1:44.6 | No, I was right. |
| 1:45.4 | It was because I was shocked. |
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