Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and the second part of our Premier League 21-22 season preview.

Will this join Toy Story 2 Paddington 2 and the Dark Night in being an epic second part that's better than the first?

I don't know. Stay tuned to find out.

My name is Ryan Bailey and joining me today as a man who loves the Premier League so much. He almost named his first child, Barclays, Taylor Rockwell. Yeah, we were going for the sponsorship money, and when that didn't come through, we then went with Wells Fargo, but they wanted to kind of, like, steal her identity and use it 40 different times. So we just decided to go non-bank sponsored name as the first name. I'm glad we don't have the Wells Fargo sponsorship in this episode. Thank you very much. Me too. Also here is a man who lost the Premier League so much. He writes Arlo White fan fiction in his spare time. It's Joe Lowry. How did you, how did you know about that, Ryan? I told you, Joe. I know everything. Camera, right. Forgot. My bad. I saw one of your spec scripts there. It was called Arlo. It looked like it was based on Argo. It was Arlo White as an extraction specialist sent into Josie Marino teams to rescue hostage players who never get game time. I think you can get that one off the ground, frankly. It's pretty good, right? I was pretty proud of it. Yeah. I feel like Jose Marino would have a secret police, like, on par with the Iranian Secret Services, in terms of all the information he has, but also keeping people in line. So I think this script is coming together, guys. Nicely done. Thank you. Don't credit, Ryan. That's my script, Taylor.

Come on.

My mistake.

I apologize.

I apologize. Also here rounding out the crew is a man who loves the Premier League so much. He almost once smiled slightly when a Premier League game was on the TV. Graham Rudbin. Hello, Ryan. Yes, I also considered a Premier League, sorry, a football-related name for my daughter, but it was Gazprom that I was going to go with.

Gasprom. I like it. What prevented you from taking the step, Graham?

The legal action, I think, that would come our way. That was the only thing.

I thought it was really strange that you were going to go with Polonium as the middle name. That seemed over the line. Like Gasprom would have been enough. You didn't have to go like full route with it. Yeah, you had to talk me out of that one. I was just picturing one day the next gen of TSS with Gazprom and Barclays hosting. Who would have thunk it? Who'd have thunk it, guys? On that note, we've got some Premier League previews to get through. We have plenty. We've got 10 teams to talk about, if you listen to yesterday's pod, you'll know that we, or not yesterday's the previous pod. We talked about the first 10 teams alphabetically. and we have got 10 remaining Liverpool through

Wolves is the last one

Jen should we get straight to it? Why don't we get straight to it?

The first team, we've got quite a threesome coming up

in the first part here by the way. Liverpool and then the two

Manchester teams. Blockbuster stuff for the first part of this podcast.

You're welcome listener. We're going to start

off with Liverpool and it was myself who looked into this one. Quite a reasonably easy job because

we all know quite a bit about Liverpool. They were third in the league last year. They were

in the fourth round of both cups. A bit disappointing going out of the quarterfinals of the

Champions League last season. A disappointing title defence, you could say.

They lost Virgil Van Dyck, obviously, to injury relatively early on.

...