Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and an episode in which we'll get you up to speed with the goings-on in the international break from all around the world.

During this window, nine teams qualified for the Don't-Mention Human Rights World Cup next November, and we now have 13 of 32 total teams qualified. Who are the contenders?

Who's in trouble? How should we welcome our new Canadian overlords? All of this and more

will be tackled on today's pod. My name is Ryan Bailey and joining me today a man who's

returning from his celebration bender after Scotland booked a playoff birth, Graham

Ransford, woo!

Hello, yeah, I mean, it was either a celebration bender or I had tonsillitis, but, you know,

the lines are blurred between those two.

Look at you pulling back the curtain and showing me, listen to how the sausage is made,

Graham.

I thought, though, by the way i gave you

uh the first introduction today because now your team's kind of sitting at the big boys table you deserve it

yeah i mean we haven't qualified yet we may have gone early on the whole celebration thing uh we're still

got two games against likely two very good teams to get through before we are actually at the table. But yes, you know how at the, you know, you have a special event, you'll have like the adults table and then there's like a little kids table that's attached to the end of the adults table. It's kind of like at a lower level with smaller seats. We're kind of at that table for the time being. Oh, Graham, you've set this up

nicely. Joe, where do you sit in holiday gatherings? What part of the table are you sitting at?

Oh, Taylor. I'll have you know that I sit at the big boys table. There we go.

At my sister-in-law's wedding, I had to sit with the children at the table. Quite literally,

everyone was half my age on the table. It weird um graham how they handling this situation in scotland i heard

that there was someone in dundee who almost smiled a little bit when when the playoff place was booked

did someone in abidine shake someone's hand in approval at some point yeah i mean steve clark

kind of clenched his fist slightly above his head for a split

second in celebration. It was wild.

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