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Thank you. Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our latest foray into the listener questions mailbag.

On today's show, we're merging Conker Caff and Condor Bowl.

We're analysing Black Co's potential successors, and we're going cuckoo for Premier League fullbacks, because of course we are.

My name's Ryan Bailey joining me today. Your friend, my friend, Taylor Rockwell, hello. Hello, my friend, my friend, Ryan Bailey. I'm excited to be here. I'm very excited to her. I always like, we record these on the Thursdays, Taylor, and I always like to just get my little hand, dip it into the mailbag, get the questions out. It's a good process. I enjoy this episode. Do you? I do, especially when there are certain questions in there that I was like, oh, that's an easy one. And then the more you think about it, the more it creates existential dread. Always fun with listener questions. Always fun. Oh, boy. Listen, try and spot which question Taylor's talking about when we get to it.

Oh, it's less existential dread and more so like, oh, that could be really bad about a thing that I thought could be really good. I'm foreshadowing. We'll talk about it soon. Yeah. Don't worry. It's not the Vlachco question. Joe Lowry joining us also. That's the one that fills me with existential dread.

Taylor doesn't get that from that one.

But that's going to be all me, and we're going to get it right from the top, Ryan.

It's good to see you. That's the one that fills me with existential dread. Taylor doesn't get that from that one.

But that's going to be all me, and we're going to get it right from the top.

Ryan, it's good to see you.

You two, pal. Graham Ruffin, how are you, sir? I am very well, Ryan Bailey. How are you? Are you still a bit tired from staying up to watch the US Open Cup last night? because I know obviously you're a big US Open Cup guy, that's your thing.

Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, the fever I had yesterday, the US Open Cup fever is now subsided. So I'm feeling a lot better, but thank you for asking. But yeah, the Prince that was promised is in the final, isn't he? Isn't he? Yeah, almost like it was scripted that way. I actually did stay up to watch that game and then realized, oh, US Open Cup is not on British TV. It is not part of the Apple TV package and couldn't kind of tolerate the

stream, the dodgy stream that I would inevitably have to find. So I just woke up and saw the result.

And Messi won for a change. He doesn't do much of that in his career. Good for him. Only an assist as well,

right? Two assists. Okay, well, off form all the way. Joe and Taylor, how does one watch US Open

Cup on US broadcasts? Excuse my ignorance. CBS. I don't know, I don't know how you watch it other

places and other countries. I know there is now, because of Messi and Miami, a global rights deal for U.S. Open Cup. More on Messi in Miami on the big thing on tomorrow's episode. That was part of my research, and Taylor is nodding like it was part of his as well. Well, just, I didn't know until last night slash today, I forget when I first read this, that there's going to be a Star Cam, so you can just watch Lino Messi play. That's what we're doing over here. I believe the athletic head Jeff Ruter watching the star cam, so he just watched Messi for 120 minutes. Star cam. Jeff, Godspeed, sir. I hope you're recovering well. Star cam sounds like they're going to project it up into the sky. They are. Joe, you said the US Open Cup now has a global rights deal. They're now just going to project it onto the moon.

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