Listener Questions! Will Schalke have to disband? Plus, soccer’s facial hair Mount Rushmore, goalkeepers winning the Ballon d'Or & more
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🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers!
1. Who’s on soccer’s Mount Rushmore for facial hair?
2. Why do some folks look at Football Manager’s future player ratings for semi-serious insight, but completely laugh at FIFA/EA FC's potential ratings?
3. What’s going on with Schalke? Could they they lose their professional status?
4. Why have fans been throwing tennis balls onto the field in Bundesliga games lately?
5. Which will happen first: a goalkeeper winning the Ballon D'Or or an Asian nation winning the World Cup?
6. Would four groups of six teams with the top two teams advancing from each group improve the 24-team tournament format?
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| 0:28.5 | Thank you. Hello, hello, and welcome to the Total Soccer show. |
| 0:57.2 | I had to get the energy levels up mid-introduction for that one. |
| 1:00.6 | My name is Taylor Rockwell. |
| 1:02.2 | I am joined by Joe Lowry. |
| 1:03.9 | Hello, Joe. |
| 1:04.9 | Hello, Taylor. |
| 1:06.4 | And Graham Rethven. |
| 1:07.2 | Hello, Graham. |
| 1:08.3 | Hello, Taylor. |
| 1:08.9 | How are you? |
| 1:09.3 | Still know Ryan Bailey today. Yeah. I noticed. Rumor has that he's now the fifth member of you too. He's now got a little goatee. He's really into his leather jackets. He gets to live in Vegas. So actually, he's probably quite happy with how this has turned out for him. Graham, I like how you're presenting, Ryan, not being here as like this great observation. |
| 1:25.0 | Like, okay, there's Taylor. I see him. There's Joe. I see and hear him. Where's that other guy? He's not here. He must be gone today. I like it. It was such a, it was a shock. It was a shock. It was a shock. It was a shock against me just going straight to the introductions. no preamble, no anything else. |
| 1:26.4 | I got the inhale from Joe. |
| 1:27.5 | That's what I was going for. |
| 1:29.3 | Because we've got a list of questions to get to, |
| 1:44.5 | and we're going to get... just going straight to the introductions. No, for example, no anything else. I got the inhale from Joe. |
| 1:44.5 | That's what I was going for because we've got lists of questions to get to. And we're going to get right to them, gentlemen. We've got six good ones, maybe seven. We'll see how long we take. The first one comes from Sagar Shriver-Megiri. Who would be on the Mount Rushmore of beards or facial hair in soccer. It does feel like there aren't |
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