Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our latest batch of listener questions.

On this episode, we're assessing Big Angie's suitability for MLS.

We're asking if Jabby Alonzo is the answer for Real Madrid.

And we're completely changing the shape of the soccer field.

My name's Ryan Bailey.

Join me today. It's your friend. It's my friend. It's listener, question, answer, extraordinary Taylor Rock. Hello, Taylor. Hello, Ryan Bailey. Credit to you and to our listeners for these questions, because they are all excellent and they were all in different ways. Head scratchers for me as I tried to answer them all. There we go.

Well, we'll get there, Taylor, and we will answer them all. Don't give me any credit, baby. It's all the listeners. It's all them. Curated, my friend, a curated list of listener questions, and I know who did the curation. Oh, too kind. That guy wearing those fancy glasses. Not that other guy wearing those fancy glasses. Hey, it's the other guy wearing his fancy glasses.

It's Joe Lowry.

Hi, Joe.

Hey, other guy with fancy glasses. Not that other guy wearing those fancy glasses. Hey, it's the other guy wearing his fancy glasses. It's Joe Lowry. Hi, Joe. Hey, other guy with fancy glasses. To me, you were the other guy, but I guess to you, I'm the other guy. It's all relative. Yeah, yeah, it is. These are great questions, though. And now they know they'd been curated, I feel so much fancier. And I feel so much better position to answer these questions from my glass tower.

I like the word curated. It feels like I'm running a museum, Joe. Yes. Here's a question about goals and other soccer things. Look over here. Very good. Graham Ruffin, how are you, sir?

I'm very well. Ryan, I actually have glasses. Should I go and put mine on just to make Taylor feel?

Yes, you should.

I'm supposed to wear glasses, but I don't.

Are you for screens, for driving?

Yeah, for screens.

Apparently, like looking at screens has destroyed my retinas.

So I'm meant to wear glasses, but I like the pain.

If you watch 17 screens at once, as is your want, during soccer days, I'm meant to wear glasses, but I like the pain. If you watch 17 screens at once, as is your want during soccer days, does that destroy your eyes at a greater ratio?

Yeah, four eyes in that situation are actually really handy, so maybe I should start wearing my glasses to watch 17 screens.

I don't think we talk enough about how Graham's habits put a strain on his career expectancy. You know, like professional athletes, you get past like 35, depending on the sport, even younger than that, like, it might be time to find something new. Graham, I'm worried about you. Like the strain you're putting on your body, I'm concerned that you're not going to make it to 2030 with this job. 4,000 minutes per season on my eyes for the last 15 years. And yet you remain DB spectacled. You are the consummate professional who goes out there every day in battles. Yeah, when Rooney could never. He was done at 30. I'm still good. There you go. I think actually Graham's going to do the reverse soccer player career. So he's going to start off doing analysis and punditry for a couple of decades. And then he's going to switch to being an elite level player. Oh, sure. Okay. He is getting suspiciously fitter. I think there might be some truth here, right? Yeah, he's getting so fit. He doesn't even need glasses anymore. Potcha is going to say that you're no eye dominant, not left eye dominant, not right eye eye dominant you just have no eye dominance left that that might be an obstacle for you at the highest levels but i believe in you graham all right there we go questions will be answered by our very own benjamin button and the rest of us as well but uh before we get there patron dot com slash total soccer show is where you'll find our bonus content, including

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