Hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

I'm Taylor Rockwell, Darryl Grove will be back with me tomorrow.

He's out galavanting around Virginia with some friends of his from England.

And when I say galavanting, I of course mean carefully and calmly recuperating in the

most responsible way possible, at least I hope that's the case.

Instead of Darryl, I've called up Graham Ruffin of the Guardian and Eurosport.

Graham has been on the show several times.

It's always nice to have him on and he's here to help me make sense of a fairly confusing

La Liga table.

Madrid are in crisis, even though they're in second.

Barcelona are in somewhat less of a crisis, despite being even further back, though they

were winning at time of recording.

So maybe that helps a little bit.

Still off to a horrendous start though.

We take a look at all that has happened in the league so far, including some of the surprising

teams that are near the top and how Graham thinks it all might play out as well as some

managers who could be on the hot seat, who could be gone before the end of the season,

managers who may stay for the duration and at the very end, we even get into a little

conversation about Iron Front versus Major League Soccer and all that's happened there.

So without further ado, Graham, thank you so much for returning to the show.

No problem at all.

It's always fun to be on.

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