Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast. Today, S.I.

Brian Strauss joins me to talk about Mohammed Sala moving into the zone.

Our suggestions to improve domestic cup competitions,

MLS's impressive so far run in CCL,

the new US men's roster, Clint Dempsie's red card-inducing groin punch

and why anyone would want to punch someone in the

groin in the first place. Onward! All right let's bring in Brian Strauss for our weekly talk on the soccer world for the

Planet Football Podcast. How are you my man? Okay I realize you know I feel sometimes

like oh I just spoke to Grant you know like or should I call Grant today

and no we just talked and then I realize that when I'm thinking we just talked it was for this yeah

but we were pretty good at actually having a little conversation off the record before we hit the record

button.

Which as we've said many times would probably make for a better podcast than the one on the record,

but would also probably result in me losing my job but yeah like I feel like a lot of our

conversations now are are this podcast I'm worried this is like you know

getting in the way of our relationship. You know what I actually experienced?

We had a situation here for the Planet Football video show several weeks ago

where Patrick Vieira anda Martinez were here together for

recording for interviews, separate interviews and I realized that the

conversation that they had for 10 to 15 minutes before they came on to be

interviewed by me was far more interesting than anything involving me.

Are there ambient microphones somewhere?

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