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Thank you. Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our latest foray into the listener questions mailbag.

Today we're exploring Club World Cup alternatives, Man City relegation scenarios, agent fee rules and much, much, much more.

My name's Ryan Bailey joining me today a man who loves a Man City relegation scenario as much as the next man who doesn't love Man City very much. Taylor Rockwell. Hello. It was a fun thing to contemplate until I realized that they're still going to be quite good. That's my spoiler alert for that question. But yes, I enjoyed that one. I enjoyed the questioner the most in that question. The questioner the most in that question. Oh, I see what you've done there. Dr. Metis Toboggin. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Indeed. Fun times ahead. Joining us, Taylor, a man who's demanded changes to the Club World Cup in our latest weekend review a couple days ago. Joe Lowry, the floor is yours in this episode.

To reinvent it, I look forward to your thoughts

and to present them to FIFA in a timely manner.

Yeah, everyone's going to be disappointed with what I have to say on that question.

And I'll say this later in more detail and probably with more words.

But my general thesis is it's kind of impossible to do it in a way that makes sense and also

is fun and normal.

So I guess good job to soccer for having too many games that you can't play these extra

games.

Ryan, this is hard.

Yeah.

And therein lies the answer to fixing the club block up.

It is to scrap it.

Joining us a man who went to something called Bonnie Rig Rose and he ate a pie this week. Graham Rutherland, hello. Hello, Ryan Bailey. Yes, it was Valentine's Day, so I decided to go to Bonnie Reg Rose, see what I did there, see what I did there. I had a good time. Pies were good. It wasn't like East Fife and Stirling Albion scored a 90th minute winner. I'm not convinced we're very good at the moment. Bonnie Reg Rose are bottom of the table and we should definitely not be relying on 90th minute winners to beat them, but nonetheless, I had a good time. Did you, it sounds like a team that's named after a sea shanty or something. Where is Bonnie Rigrose in the world, Graham? So Bonnie Rig is about 10 miles outside Edinburgh. It's essentially where I live.

So I love in New England's first city.

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