Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our first dive into the listener questions mailbag of 2025.

Today we're asking if the Premier League Big Six is still a thing.

If buyback clauses and contracts have ever been a thing.

And the funniest injuries the game has ever known my name's ryan

bailey joining me today it's your friend it's my friend it's taylor rock or hello taylor hello ryan

and yes yes and kanezarez if you want the abbreviated answers to uh those questions

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I will mute myself from now on. Listeners know that I won't actually do that. Oh, never mind. We can but dream, Taylor. Just kidding. Just kidding. Pleasure to have you here, darling. Graham Rodden's here also. Hello, Graham. Hello, Ryan Bailey. the mention of Santiago Canazares has brought up bad memories for me because I have had a footballing injury. I've had two, actually, and they were inflicted by the same person 12 months apart. The captain of the Scotland school boys team, true story, he broke my wrist twice in the space of a year. So thanks for that lead core. While playing, he broke your wrist? Yes, yes. Well, okay. He barged me to the ground. The referee clearly didn't see what was happening there, and I landed on my skinny wrists and broke the same one twice. Sounds to me like genetics broke your wrist. Genetics and gravity did that. Not the other guy guy I would suggest. That was Liam's fault. That's fair. That's fair. Fair enough. All right. Here to waiting on that matter are much more Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe. Yeah, I think it was Graham's fault just because we have all played soccer with Graham, and we know that Graham's only goal on the soccer field is to do as many techers and keep EPPups and tricks and flicks as possible. So I'm imagining Graham doing all of those tricks and flicks like just at the edge of his own box, getting absolutely clattered, falling down. The wrist actually broke in shame, knowing that he shouldn't have been doing those things. It just snapped out of just a realization of how badly he really slipped up in that moment.

Everyone knows when you're playing pick up soccer that a nutmeg is worth at least five goals, like in terms of credit, that's worth much more than the goal. So you've all got it wrong. It has to be a completed nutmeg, though, right? You can't just be it all that goes through. You have to collect on the other side. Cool. That's the rules. And then you break their wrist and they can't collect on the other side and you've ticked both boxes.

There you go. That's what happens. Some wise words, my old thin wrist, Rusman on the episode kicking off here. Add it to the list. That is now canon. I want listeners to know that Taylor, whenever we say add it to the list, he takes a beat, he sighs, and then he gets his actual list on a piece of paper and writes it down. On parchment, yeah, with a quill. Actually, at this point, I'm on my second notebook since we started this. So this, we have two different lists now. I need to consolidate it. I really do. Yes. I also don't know why I write Graham and Ruffin every time.

No, you have to. Every single one is Graham, then the nickname, and then Ruffin on the end, except for

Graham Eño, which leads the list right now.

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