Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Wallace and welcome to the State of the Union Podcast, where we look at the beautiful

game on and off the field through the lens of red white and blue colored glasses.

This week we'll be talking MLS MVP, VAR again, Dune, Ole, Asterisk, Clop, Memphis, Espria, National Team Allegiance, five subs, and so much more.

But first joining me, as always friend my colleague my guiding light

David Mossy I soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

Mossy how are you on this Monday November 1st in the year 2021.

I'm doing well all things considered.

And what I mean by that is I finally got a prediction right,

but it's one I wish I'd gotten wrong.

You might recall at the end of our last podcast,

you asked me about the Michigan

Michigan State football game and I said close game but I was leaning Michigan State

and sure enough it played out that way the your Michigan Wolverines the Wolverines of Michigan, went to East Lansing in the great

state of Michigan to take on the Spartans of Michigan state and were not victorious.

They did not hail to the victor at all at the end of the game, right?

Well, it's Michigan and it's a big game, so the only question was,

how were we going to find a way to lose it?

And the way it happened was Michigan had a 30 to 14 lead mid third quarter

dominating the game up to that point should have been up by more and then imploded

from that point forward out scored 23 to 3 in the last quarter and a half and lost 37 33.

Well this obviously leads to Harbaw out then right? I mean this is this is

embarrassing for him and for the Michigan family so is is that a possibility

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