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Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

Lamela's rabona and the best goals of 2021, Rafa Benitez’s downfall, VSPs for our national teams, and more listener questions

Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

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Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

It’s listener question time! On this episode, Taylor, Ryan, Graham, and Joe team up to answer your lovely inquires. From soccer wedding officiants to unqualified coaches, you can find the full list of questions that we answered down below:

1) The Premier League has decided to allow one amateur player per team, and we have each been selected. Which Premier League team would each of us choose to be added to in order to give us the best chance of scoring a Premier League goal? 

2) What are our very specific predictions for our respective national teams in 2022?

3) What goal do we think was the goal of the year for 2021?

4) What's gone wrong for Rafa Benitez? 

5) In honor is Ted Lasso, who are some of the most unqualified coaches in soccer history?

6) Which footballer, past or present, would we have wanted to officiate our weddings?

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and thank you for joining us for our latest oral odyssey in which we attempt to answer listener questions.

0:30.2

My name is Ryan Bailey.

0:31.6

Joining me today to answer those questions is a man whose favourite wine is Stephen Bergwine in that nice 97th minute vintage. Taylor Rockwell, hello.

0:41.3

Hello, I'm glad you brought that up. I spent like a good 45 minutes mesmerized watching a YouTube video about, or a series of YouTube videos about a sommelier telling me all about wine. I don't know anything about wine. I learned a few new things yesterday. So yes, I now have favorite vintages and things like that. I don't know what I'm talking about at all,

0:57.3

but it was good video, it was good content. And that's a great introduction, Ryan. Thanks for that. You're welcome. You know how favorite vintages of wine based on a YouTube video rather than trying the wines. Yeah, that's correct. That's how it works. It's all, it's all, you don't need to

0:54.3

taste it at all. You can learn everything about wine from the label itself and nothing else. That is

0:58.1

not true. That is the opposite of the lesson he was trying to teach. Every day is not a school day. The tale twists. Yes, indeed. I was referring to Leicester 2, Tottenham 3, Stephen Bergwine, making a rather entertaining ending to that one. But we are just beginning this pod. And joining us here is a man who's in a difficult spot because he loves the movie Encanto, but he also wants to talk about Brune. No, no, no, no. Is that right, Joe Larry? Oh, Ryan, that song's going to be stuck in my head for so long now. It's also incredibly catch, so I can't decide if I should be annoyed or happy that you've reintroduced that to my brain. How you doing? I'm doing very well. It's in my brain, Joe, because I'm homeschooling at the moment, or my kids are doing virtual schooling, I should say, I'm not teaching them. But my thing that I do in the afternoon when I need to sort of cool off a little bit is putting Cantor on. So it's been on a lot in our home. And I was just thinking how that song, we don't talk about Brudo, no, no, no, which is very, very catchy indeed. That's going to get used for Mr. Fernandez at some point, isn't it? Oh, it's got to. It's got to, especially with everything going on with Manchester United right now. Ryan, it's only a matter of time, really. Yes, indeed. Well, Mr. Burano got two assists against Brentford on Wednesday evening, but also had a rather hilarious chance in the 93rd minute of that game where he attempted a chip and sort of meekly put it into the keepers' gloves. Listen, and have a look at that one, if you dare. Rounding out our group

2:35.4

today as a man will tread very carefully around today as well. His hometown tennis hero went to Australia

2:41.3

to play in the open, but he was sent home. Not for Djokovic reasons, but for losing in straight

2:47.1

sets reasons. How are you holding up, Graham? Yeah, not bad. I mean, he didn't get sent

2:52.2

home for Djokovic's reasons, so still winning in my book. One thing that you drew my attention

2:58.4

to, Graham, at the Australian Open, where they play tennis rather than soccer, they are doing the

3:03.1

Ronaldo Si thing, aren't they? They are, and it's becoming a bit of a dominating storyline. Everyone's talking about how irritating it is, including Mr. Murray, who after his first round victory said, yes, it was very, very irritating, and I wish they would stop doing it. And yeah, I've never been a bigger Andy Murray fan than after that remark. So Murray said something like, why are they booing me? Oh, they're not saying boo or boo-earns. They're saying she, is that right? Boo-earns, yeah. They're saying boo-earns. So, yeah, Ronaldo's responsible for ruining tennis now is the headline, right? Yeah. Well, Gerard Piquet did it first, and then Renal was following it. He's just confirming it.

3:45.3

Graham, we established yesterday, I think, after recording that I don't know anything about tennis or no very little. Maybe it would be before recording.

3:52.6

Is Andy Murray on his way out? I'm looking at his results, and I realize that he was not ranked at all. So I'm

3:58.6

wondering, is he still, is he still going to be good? Rough question. Rough question. Rough question. So Andy Murray has had, it's fair to say, a rough few years with injury, he had an operation to have a metal hip installed. And so he's doing something that no men's singles player has ever done before. He's playing with a metal hip, so his ranking is very low. But he's been playing well recently. He made a final last week in Sydney, and that's, in my opinion, that was a factor why he did so poorly in the Australian Open was he was a little bit tired, and he has 34 with a metal hip, so you can maybe excuse him for that. Yeah, the tlDR is uh he was british now is

4:31.3

scottish that's basically it so um make him he's more machine now but man that's what i'm hearing

4:36.2

yeah he's the bionic man yeah the tlDR is that uh england's treasured tennis tournament has been

4:42.9

more recently won by a scott than an englishman and that's a tlDR a brit a britt a brit oh yeah sure okay now That's a TLDR. A Brit, Graham. A Brit. Oh, yeah, sure. Okay. Now he's a Brit. I regret my decision to ask this question. Before we get to our listening to questions, by the way, a funny story caught my attention on this very day. I don't know if you saw this, gents. Bordeaux in Liga have dropped their shirt sponsor, which is Winnamax,

5:04.5

which appears to be the French paddy power, like a betting company.

5:08.4

They sponsor Bordeaux for €1.3 million a year.

5:12.8

They've been dropped for repeatedly posting insulting memes

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