Retiring Messi's jersey, Solskjaer's virtues, new throw-in rules, and more listener questions!
Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...
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4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, Ryan Bailey and Graham Ruthven answer your listener questions! More specifically, these listener questions...
1) Scotland in the 70's and 80's seems to have had a lot of top-end players. Is it correct to say Scotland underperformed heavily in that era and if so, what were the reasons?
2) Is Poophousery strategic? Can it be taught? Can it elevate an otherwise less-skilled team to success at scale?
3) We hear a lot of criticism about Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. To flip it positive: what is Ole really good at?
4) Is retiring a jersey a thing in soccer? Should Barcelona retire the No.10 jersey?
5) Did Liverpool trick everyone into thinking Coutinho was good, or was he actually good?
6) What would happen if FIFA changed the throw-in rule to allow any types of throws. Which would be the most used? Would throw-ins become a bigger or smaller part of the game? Would there be throw-in specialists?
7) Is the FIFA video game a positive for kids to play? On one hand, it helps kids get into the sport and understand some of the roles. On the other, it’s not a very accurate facsimile of the game and some traits appear under or overvalued.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and an episode where we ask, what questions do our listeners |
| 0:25.4 | have before answering questioners what our listeners have. My name is Ryan Bailey, and it's a |
| 0:31.4 | paired down TSS today, a gruesome-to-sum, and a gross over-representation of Great Britain. |
| 0:38.8 | Joining me today a man who lives for Man City versus PhD in the group stages. It's Graham Rutherman. Hello, Ryan. How are |
| 0:44.6 | you? I have to say, I feel like a lot in soccer is a gross over-representation of Great Britain. |
| 0:51.1 | So we're just continuing that, extrapolating that out. |
| 0:54.5 | How are you? |
| 0:55.5 | I'm very good, thank you. |
| 0:56.5 | Thank you for asking, Graham. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm referencing there in my intro, the Champions League drawl, which is kind of wrapping up as we record. |
| 1:05.0 | Some crackers and some groups turning out so far. |
| 1:08.0 | Group A, Graham, the three teams we've seen so far, Manciti, PSG and |
| 1:13.4 | R.B. Leipzig. That's a pretty heavy group, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. That's a tough |
| 1:19.4 | one for Jesse Marsh to go straight into. Mancity v. PSG is narrative overloads, of course, |
| 1:27.4 | and then even Group B, you know, |
| 1:28.9 | Athletical Madrid, Liverpool, Porto, and A.C. Milan in that group. So that's another dozy |
| 1:36.0 | of a group. Some of these groups have been fully drawn, as Ryan was saying there, we're |
| 1:40.6 | talking mid-draw, and it's a bit like watching a Zach Snyder cut of a group |
| 1:48.1 | stage draw the way that they draw out. In fact, I think Zach Snyder would probably have found a way |
| 1:52.7 | to cut it down a bit from what UEFA do. So we're talking while there's still some teams to be |
| 1:58.8 | drawn out into the group. group so um yes probably still |
| 2:02.0 | some more interesting ones i've just seen club bruges have gone into that group a group of death so |
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