Welcome to the Total Soccer Show Weekender. It's the show where we look ahead to the biggest games of the weekend.

And we've got a little bonus interview today with an official who's going to be at this summer's World Cup.

Can you believe it? My name's Ryan Bailey joining me today. Hi, Taylor Rockwell. How's your week been?

Rough. Poked in the eye, dog had like a stroke, seizure incident, children of children, but you all are lovely, so here we are.

Super glad I asked. Really am. Yeah. If you like me to go even heavier, I was going to ask you,

the last time we had an official referee on the show to be the official referee consultant, it was before I knew that Pierre, is it Pierre Luigi Colina? Mm-hmm. The famed referee, I did not know that he had alopecia. So I made a joke, like, right away about, like, how, like, to be a good ref, do you have to be bald? and he was sort of like, we should stop. So if you didn't start out that awkwardly,

you're doing, joke right away about like how like to be a good ref do you have to be bald and he was sort of like

we should stop so if you didn't start out that awkwardly you're doing great my friend and when you

re-recorded you just made a joke about his giant eyes and he was cool it was cool with that

exactly exactly yeah we'll have to find out what kind of faux pas i made later when we hear that

interview in this episode grain ruffin hello how are you i are you? I'm good, Ryan Bailey. How are you? What do you have planned for the weekend? Like me, are you a little bit lost now that your team's season is over? I spent weeks slash months anticipating. I was desperate for the end of the season. and now it's here like a few days later, I'm like, what am I going to do on Saturday? I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, I'll survive until more League One action red hot comes in in August. I can't hardly wait for that, Graham. This weekend, of course, as we all know, in the US game, it's Mother's Day. That's not the same for us, though, is it? No. No, I saw a panic on your face. I saw a panic. That was incredible. It's different here, right? Please. You guys do it earlier, don't you, Graham? Didn't you already? I think so. Yeah, I think we've done it already. Oh, Graham. Yeah. So if you,

if you live with a British mother who's in America,

they get two mother's days. Isn't that nice for them?

Like the queen?

Queen. Queen had two birthdays.

Do you get two father's days or no?

There's only one father's day. They're the same day in the and US. Yeah. Fascinating. Fair enough. I know. We're getting short change there.

A little bit. It's all right. Men have it so hard, Graham. Yeah. I think we'll be all right.

Men's rights and all that. Come on. Joe Lowry, how are you? Great. I really am great.

I did not realize that those holidays were different. That's fascinating. Graham, I hope you clutched up, pal. Yeah, my heart's kept to be there. Yeah, you're okay. You're clear. You're clear. Don't worry. I got you a kit, my love. Here you go. Yeah. That implies that, like, Graham does do a big to-do for Mother's Day and thus, like, didn't have it planned, but then also didn't remember if Mother's Day had already happened. Yeah. Risky.

I'm, I'm, does do a big to-do for Mother's Day and thus, like, didn't have it planned, but then

also didn't remember if Mother's Day had already happened.

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