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My name is Taylor Rockwell.

On today's episode, we've got six American soccer-centric questions to ponder.

Here with me to do so are two friends.

Up first, Malik Toeman's new bodyguard and social media enforcer, it's Graham Ruthven.

Graham, Hal goes defending him from the, I'm assuming,

hordes of Partick Thistle supporters at the Ibrox gates.

See, the thing is, Partick Thistle have this reputation in Scottish football.

All their fans are derided and mocked for being poets.

They're from the west end of Glasgow, where, like, the houses are slightly more expensive.

And so I would maybe fancy my chances of being Mallet Tillman's bodyguard against party Thistle fans but if he ever does anything in an

old firm derby maybe that's where the limits of my bodyguard ability are. Dibbs on the new football

club name West End Poets. I'm keeping that one that That's mine now. Joining us, a man who knows that the next great name in American goal scoring is Taha Habruni. Joe, Taha cannot be denied at the U-17 championships. Should we just give him the number nine shirt now? Oh, Taha abruini. I mean I can honestly say, I have no clue who that is. I'm glad you

thrown the U-17 tie. I've been keeping sort of my peripheral vision on the U-17 World Cup

qualifying, but I'm not in deep enough to have heard of Taha, which is a massive mistake. That is an unreal,

top-tier name. It's almost as good as, shoot, I've been working on a piece with Jeff Ruder for the Athletic about Western McKinney and Somerville at Leeds United. What is, Somerville's first name? Like, crescendo Somerville or something. It's an incredible name. Yes, yes, yeah, there it is. That is a top-tier name. Taha is a top-tier name.

Also, how Scottish can it be to have someone go, ooh, you guys kind of like some form of art? We're going to mock you for that. That's all I got. Yeah, welcome to Scotland joke. It just feel appropriate. Glasgow specifically. I just wanted to mention that, not the Glasgow specifically, the U-17s got the win last night, 3-1 over Trinidad and Tobago, so they're top of their group in U-17.

Concaf Championship group stage play.

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