Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our review of the Champions League's semi-final first legs.

Arsenal tried their best to get into their groove, but PSG put in a performance that you could hang in the Louvre.

As for Barcelona, what can we say?

We love the way that Laminiaal and his friends play. Intel was solid

and Basel will be fine if you can win a major trophy with that kind of crazy high line. My name's

Ryan Bailey. Joining me today, it's your friend. It's my friend. The Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Taylor.

Hello, Ryan Bailey. The Champions League is the best. The European Champions League, I should

stress. It is so much fun. These games are so great in very different ways. And I managed to stay spoiler-free to watch Barcelona inter at 9 p.m. last night and was into it the whole way. It was great. Wow. Just as a, how do you shut yourself out and watch a game on delay like that? How is it possible to do that? Remember how you were confused how I had so many unread text messages? That's how I do it. That explains the

no response to our Slack messages last night. Correct. Taylor, Taylor, how good is this game, Taylor?

You enjoyed yourself, Taylor? And then I did, I did respond to Slack. Like, I responded to all

the messages around 1230 at night, only to find out that Slack was down and none of them went through. So if you all get random messages coming through in the middle of this recording, that's why. Or through the middle of the night. I count on them from you, quite frankly, Taylor. It's a routine for me. That is the voice of Graham, Ruth, and you hear, Graham, how were you? Have you been touching grass as well? Does it like Taylor? Yes. I mean, no more than... There seems to be a lot of lawn care happening in our estate at the moment. Taylor and I spoke about this on the one-on-one episode we did this week, which was all about pitches. I don't know whether that was a really coherent, like, synergetic segue there, Ryan, that's what I meant yeah that's what I meant

it was all planned um but yeah I'm one of the few people who just lets it grow

Graham tell him about your neighbor tell him about your neighbor people need to know um he is doing a lot

of work to his lawn and I'm doing nothing and mine looks better he he astro turf the whole thing whole thing. Oh, that, you're talking a bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one. That one I can't get over. Yeah, he is astroturfed the whole lot. Looks terrible. Hope he doesn't listen at this show. Wow. I got so fed up with my yard once that I got a quote for turfing the whole the whole thing I decided not to kind of wish I had

I'm with you neighbor Joe Lauer is here hi Joe hey guys uh I I am team turf in moderation

doing the entire lawn in the in the nation of Scotland feels like just a slap in the face to

your your entire people group just as Taylor Rockwell absolutely smacked the Vancouver Whitecaps in the face with his clarification about only the European Champions League is any fun? That is, I mean, that's how you make an enemy of an entire Canadian city. Well, he's a big fan of the Champions Cup, though. Gotcha. Was that not clear? Yeah, that's clearly what I meant. Not that I didn't watch that game and have nothing to add to it,

so didn't want to then tease that we were talking about all of the champions. Just decided to absolutely knock out the city of Vancouver along the way. Well, play. They had it coming. They could have been American. They know what they did. War of 1812. They chose where to be. They chose what to be. Geez. Hey, well, things might change on air front in a place

you must tell you and ever know.

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you mentioned a few minutes ago about these semifinals being very fun. Semifinals of the Champions

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