Welcome to the Total Soccer show and your favourite show of the week, listener questions.

You've been sending issue questions in your droves at totalsockoshoho.com slash questions.

And today, we're fielding inquiries about female managers, soccer cities that suck,

and an 11 consisting of fictional vampires.

Not that there's any other kind, right guys, right?

Anyway, I am regular human podcaster Ryan Bailey, and joining me today on this intrepid journey

is a man whose timekeeping is better than a NAFCon referee, I think Taylor Rockingwell.

Hello.

Hello, I played a game of indoor last night, and that story was the buzz of both indoor fields.

Every referee talking about how they could have done a better job.

It seems like Afcon has made it into everyone's homes here in America.

This is Tunisia versus Mali. I'm referring to the ref attempting to end the match early twice. No less than twice there. And then I think publicly said, guys, I got money on this. Come on, we've got to get this game over. Allegedly. Taylor, I'm surprised by the chat from the rec league referees because in my experience, they're not the most engaged and interested, certainly in the leagues I've played in. They do all want to blow up five minutes early.

Well, I think a lot of the conversation was rooted in like, if that guy's a referee,

I could be a World Cup referee. But I think there was, I think both of the officials I spoke

to are very serious about refereeing, about officiating. They take it very

seriously. And so I think there was a frustration that the gentleman in question was making

them look bad. In the league I played in Charlotte, if the ref took his hands out of his pockets,

that was a good day. By the way, your excellent Bundesliga podcast with Manuel Faitz, which is on the

feed right now listener,

that clocks in at the exact length of that full-time Tunisia versus Marley, Taylor.

I actually didn't experiment.

If you sink them up, the dark side of the moon and Tunisia versus Mali and your podcast,

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