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Learn more at vertexinck.com. Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our latest batch of listener question goodness.

On today's show, we're asking which soccer coaches could lead NFL franchises.

We're asking if the Saudi League is as sustainable, as we once thought.

And we're picking potential 2026 World Cup debitants who might go the distance. My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today, your friend of mine. His first name's Taylor. His second name's Rockwell. Hello, Taylor. You nailed it. Hello, buddy. How you doing? I did nail it. Thank you. Can I have a pat? A pat on the head, please. Yes, pat on the head for you. Thank you very much, Taylor. Also joining us to answer listener questions, it's Joseph Lowry, who is currently, is either sitting on a dog or dog sitting, which one was it? It's the second one, Ryan, although the chair I'm sitting on is very, very small with no back. So, I mean, if I, like, squint and sort of pretend that I can't feel it, maybe I could be sitting on a dog.

Really, I just want a pat from Taylor as well. Taylor, are you handing out, Pats? Can I please have one? Yes. Yay. Listen, but none for Graham. Oh. Graham, rather than joining us, Graham, how do you feel about your patless scenario right now? I'm used to, by now, to be honest. It's only because Graham gets a nice rub on his muzzle.

How about that?

That's what she said. We've got plenty of listener questions to get to in this episode before we do so, though. We need to inform you about our Patreon, if you're not in away already. Patreon.com slash total soccer show is where we keep our bonus content. There's videos up there. There's videos of Graham buying bad shirts, which you can watch, one of which I don't like very much. Excellent shirts.

And I think most listeners would agree. Okay. Find out what that is at patreon.com slash total

soccer show. Joe walking around in California talking about quizzes, Taylor sitting outdoors,

and you get access to our Discord where you can see a picture of me as a 17-year-old holding a mobile phone.

Graham, it's a good picture.

Oh, we got a pond.

The memes, yeah, that exact meme has had me laughing for the last couple days, making fun of your insistence Ryan that pawns are

working class. Also, the picture of you, the memes are based on, I need more information on

why you had to wear suits to school? Was that also a working class thing? I need the explanation

on this. Does it sound working class? No. No, I think that's a point. So in the UK, you wear a school uniform at

virtually every school, right? When you get to the sixth form at the last two years of high school,

my school decided it would be really grown up if you dress for the world of business. So instead of

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