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Learn more at vertexinck.com. Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our latest dive into the listener questions postbag.

On today's show, we're talking about soccer players eating spicy chicken, the worst ever season performances, and how to watch soccer games.

My name's Ryan Bailey, joining me for the question party today, a man who's present and able today, unlike Dean Henderson, when he has been forced to face his parent club, Man United in the League Cup semifinals, Taylor Rockwell. Quite a conundrum for your team. It is, man. I'm happy not to have to face Dean Henderson. I think he's a very good goalkeeper. but I sort of hate that rule that if you're on loan, you can't play against your parent club. Because, yeah, Dean Henderson finding out yesterday after a great performance, a great win, that he will not get to play that next round because it's against Man United. And you could see the win come out of his sales. It reminded me of Ivanovich, I think it was. Yeah, when he made, it was Chelsea made the Champions League final and in the postgame interview, when he's so excited, they tell him he picked up a second yellow and will be suspended. And you just see the life drain from him. It's a watch people die sort of moment. And it was kind of that with Dean Henderson yesterday. It was a Ralph Wegum freeze frame moment. I think didn't Steve Cooper have one of those on air as well?

And he was like, oh, didn't think about that.

Darn.

That's a kick in the knickers.

At least he said it in a charming way.

This is the League Cup semifinal, Southampton versus Newcastle and Forest versus Man United.

Joining us a man who loves the League Cup, Leagues, Cups, all leagues and cups, Joe Lowry, hello. That's just not true. I feel like I hate most of those competitions. I try to tolerate some of them, but I, like Graham, Graham kind of took all the bullets the other day for talking about how he doesn't love the FAA Cup. I'm kind in the same boat i struggle at times to get jazzed about the u.s open cup the one in my country so getting all about the caribout cup or the leagues or whatever these are over in the uk that's it's just not going to happen i've never i wasn't ready for the i was kind of expecting a yes and i wasn't ready for the no comma and I hate. That was, that was terrific, Joe. Taylor, they didn't, they didn't teach you that in improv. No, we took different classes, clearly. No hate, period. End of scene. All right. Well, yeah, there we go. We like soccer on this podcast. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. From the intro here. Some of it. Joining us, by the way, a man, we just heard his name there. He doesn't have to Google Jamie Red Knapp shoes to do his shopping like I do. Graham Rutherland, hello. Hello, Ryan Bailey. Did you find out the brand that they all wear? Or is it just multiple brands all the one style so listen

this is the thing there is like a soccer pundit shoe um every every sky sports pundit wears the same

shoe all the NBC ones do even if you look at the Apple TV release they're all wearing the same

shoe this black shoe with like a white sole on it. So I put a call out this

morning like, where do I get these? And it turns out everywhere. There are multiple brands that do

them. So yeah, I'll just... Including former Total Sacco Show sponsor, great. If you want a really

nice pair of Italian crafted or Italian design Brooklyn crafted shoes. Oh, wait, is it not that time?

Okay, I'll wait another 14 and a half minutes.

If people are wondering why this episode is starting off loose, the conversation that

genuinely immediately preceded the start of recording was whether or not a person was

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