International Break Round-up: joy for Scotland, questions for England, Hansi Flick's historical Germany sacking, and much more!
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🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Graham and Taylor take a look at some of the biggest stories from the international window so far, including Scotland continuing to play attractive and fun soccer while England drop points for the first time in qualifying. What to expect from their friendly match later today! Plus, lots of discussion about what went wrong for Hansi Flick and Germany and where the DFB will go from here. And then quicker hits on Portugal, Uruguay, South Korea, and more!
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| 0:28.5 | Thank you. Hello, hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:55.8 | My name is Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:57.2 | It remains the international window, which means Ryan Bailey continues to not be on the episode. |
| 1:02.3 | But joining me today, making his international return is Mr. Graham Ruffin. |
| 1:06.3 | Hello, Graham. |
| 1:06.9 | You weren't here Monday. |
| 1:07.7 | You're back on the Tuesday. |
| 1:09.2 | I am indeed. |
| 1:10.2 | I felt like I couldn't miss out on an opportunity to talk about how good Scotland are all of a sudden. I'm recording this on Tuesday afternoon. We're playing England tonight. I'm looking forward to an evening of shouting abuse at English people, which I know I do on this podcast anyway, but Ryan and I aren't usually in the same place. And this time, Jordan Henderson will be right there in front of me. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to that. You know what? You put Scotland, Graham did the running order for today. You put Scotland fourth in the order. I'm making an executive decision to move that to the top right now. Scotland, top of their group for Euro qualifying, you're playing England today with the way they've started in qualifying. |
| 1:46.8 | If you lose, say, 2-0 to England, how sad are you now, Graham? |
| 1:52.3 | Does that completely negate all that's happening in qualifying? |
| 1:54.6 | Are you going to be bummed or are you going to be okay with it? |
| 1:56.4 | I'll definitely be bummed about the result. |
| 1:58.7 | But the weird thing about tonight's game is Norway and |
| 2:01.9 | Georgia are playing at the same time as Scotland and England tonight. And if they draw at the same |
| 2:07.9 | time as Scotland play in England, we officially qualify, we punch our ticket as the first country, |
| 2:12.9 | which is just unbelievable, other than Germany, of course, is host, the first country to qualify |
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