Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our latest dive into the listener questions mailbag.

On today's show, we're talking about naming stands after people, fan backlash in Europe,

and the most uplifting stories of the past year.

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My name's Ryan Bailey.

Joining me today on a week we're dubbing Joe Lowry Vacation Week.

It's a power trio. It's Taylor Rock Girl. Hello, Taylor. Hello, Ryan Bailey. I'm excited to be here. I enjoyed all of these questions, even if I found them pretty much uniformly tricky, especially that last one that you mentioned, where I'm not trying to go all Graham Ruthven from the start, but I definitely struggled with uplifting stories from

2024. Hopefully you all have a litany that I can steal from. We'll see when we get to it, Taylor, on that front. Graham Rutherland also here. Hello, Graham. Hello, Ryan Bily. I mean, uplifting is not really my kind of brand, so I might struggle with that one, unfortunately. All right, we're off to a wonderful start then. We are. I am looking forward to our chat about Liberos today, though. And Ryan, I have a question for you. Did you think that was a Panera competitor, Libero? Sounds like it could be a sandwich shop. Does sound delicious, yeah. Yeah, I'd like a footlong Libero, please. I'm now envisaging, like, sandwiches named after soccer players. Like, oh, this is a shark tank idea. Like the, like, the coal palmer is just, it's just bread and butter. Exactly. What would a Libero sandwich be? Would it be like one ingredient is the star, and then everything else is kind of a role player?

Yeah, I feel like it's, you need an element of risk. To keep true to the footballing concept of

a libero, there's a little bit of risk, but there's a solid ingredient that like mops it, mops it up

for the rest of the ingredients and saves it. Okay. It makes it possible. Here is your,

your philosophical question of the day. Is a hamburger a libero? Because the meat is really doing a lot of the heavy lifting there. Everything else is sort of there to accentuate the meat, to help the meat. But ultimately, it's the meat that does the job. With some slight chili jam for the risk element there as well. Maybe a bit of extra bun bread to mop up the remaining juices. Oh, it's all there, Taylor. It's all there. You've got all the ingredients. Delicious. I'm now just thinking of sandwiches named after players. The Louis Suarez, it's just chunks of Jojo Kailini. Are you on chat GBT right now, Greg? No, I'm not. Honestly, I've been set off on this idea.

Wonderful stuff.

Well, maybe more on a soccer player sandwiches on our Patreon.

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Let's do it.

That's a great content idea.

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