Hello, hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

I am Taylor Rockwell and today I'm joined by a man who thinks Sajumane is overrated or at the very least a joke.

It's Sam Tai of the BR Football Ranks podcast. Hello, Sam.

Oh, dude, you don't have to do me like that. I've had 24 hours of hell.

It's crazy. It's crazy.

I mean, first of all, Sadio Manet is amazing. But maybe the English terminology of, oh, manet is a joke, isn't it? That doesn't quite translate to every culture, apparently, because I've had a few people tell me that

that means I don't rate in, which I really do.

But yeah, apart from that, apart from that, everything's well over here in England. How was it over in the US? I hear you've had a presidential debate, made a couple of waves. I mean, we had a scrimathon where everybody yelled at each other for a while and nonsense was said, yeah, it was not my favorite thing. My blood pressure went up. I definitely was going to try not to drink and drank about five minutes in.

It was not my favorite thing. My blood pressure went up. I definitely was going to try not to drink and drank about five minutes in. It was not my favorite evening. But, you know, football can help with that. Soccer can help alleviate the tension a little bit. How are things over there, Sam? Everything good over there? We don't have any of the screamathons happening. No? We just have probably a similarly incompetent leadership group and government. And we have

absolutely no idea where we stand with anything. There are rumors of a second lockdown and coming,

which is very disheartening. The pubs are now closing at 10pm as part of like a soft lockdown.

And what's that, what that's created is a new rush hour at 10pm as everyone leads to the pub.

So that was,

so that was smart.

Honestly,

the tube stations in central London at 10pm are as busy as they are at 5.30 on a normal,

non-pandemic working day.

They are that bad because everybody has to leave at the same time. It is in a bad way, a joke. So it's been, it's been strange. It's been strange. But at least I'm healthy. Not in the Saddamane way of a joke, in the bad way of a joke. You said you may have some incompetent leadership over there. Let's stick with that for a moment to talk about Manchester United, shall we?

Oh, nice segue.

Thank you.

I didn't mean to lead with them.

In fact, I think my initial plan was to lead with, like, Aston Villa to get you going.

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