Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show, a Christmas Eve Eve episode of The Total Soccer Show.

I'm your host, Taylor Rockwell. Joining me today, I've got a man who is as graceful at full speed as a Tottenham goalkeeper. It's Ryan Bailey. Hello, Ryan. Hello, hello, hello. Thank you for having me once again on this festive edition of TSS. My pleasure, indeed. That's why you don't script that a joke because you trip over it when you're delivering it.

But you rolled right through that. edition of TSS. My pleasure, indeed. That's why you don't script out a joke because you trip over it when you're delivering it.

But you rolled right through that.

Ryan Bailey is here with me today to talk a lot of the Premier League, some interesting games

this weekend.

A little bit about Italy, a little bit about Germany.

But up front, we want to talk a little bit about Charlotte because here I was logging

into Twitter last week and there was Ryan Bailey surrounded by what appeared to be slightly drunk

Charlotte fans it was nice to see you in video form working with with Charlotte

yeah the Carolina cats out the bag Tate I'm gonna be doing a little bit of work with

Charlotte MSS the solar MSS yeah MSS, yeah, Charlotte MLS. Oh gosh. And fire. The, it was a good run we had, anyway, that week we had together with a Charlotte MSS. The as yet unnamed team doesn't even have colors at the moment. They weren't revealed at the announcement either, but I'm very excited to be doing some work with this team going forward. Basically, I've been, I moved to Charlotte in 2011, and a soccer team has landed on my doorstep. So it feels pretty great that that's happening, to be honest. What I'm really excited about is that Charlotte MSS, you had some numbers behind that. Our president's going to tweet out that it's a gang in Charlotte instead of an MLS franchise. I'm pretty excited about that as well. You can sidestep that one if you want. But how was that, how was that, like, the introductory interview with David Tepper? It feels like it was a big day for him, a lot of energy. What was he like kind of in that what appeared to be, was it an actual bar or was it a

fake bar that had been constructed for purposes of that interview? Oh, the whole thing was virtual reality. Yeah, that wasn't even David Tepper, it was an actor. It was a guy who plays Gollum. It's Andy Circus. There you go. It was ID circus. No, it was a bar called Hooligans, uptown in Charlotte. We call it uptown, not downtown, because we're cool like that.

Yeah.

You and Bill is basically the main soccer bar, and it was, It was a bar called Hooligans Uptown in Charlotte. We call it Uptown, not downtown, because we're cool like that.

Yeah, you and Billy Joel.

Which is basically the main soccer bar, and it was full of fans.

And I'd been waiting to interview the billionaire David Tepper all day long, and it got to about 5pm. and I got to do it in front of several hundred semi-drunk people,

which wasn't nerve-wracking at all to speak to the billionaire David Tepper for the first time.

But it was great. It went really well. The launch went very well, I think, and I'm very excited about what this team is going to be doing around here. And what you're going to be doing is, like, different video content for them over the next few months, so we can sort of check your feed, or we can promote a little bit of that on this show because we like to promote Ryan Bailey and he does interesting things.

Oh, that's very kind. Yeah, I'm going to be columning, columning. I'm going to make that a verb now

for Charlotte MLS201.com and doing some on-camera stuff as the team starts to build as they

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