Hello, everybody, and welcome to a champion's league-centric episode of the Total Soccer Show. My name is Taylor Rockwell.

Daryl Grove is not with me today. Instead, I'm joined by an Englishman of a different sort.

It's Mr. Sam Tai of the BR Football Ranks podcast. We met Sam when we were in Germany.

He was lovely. He was wonderful. He was tall, as he mentions, in today's show. We got along very well. We were very impressed by everything he had to offer. I was sitting next to him. That sounds cynical, but what I mean to say is, like, I was sitting next to him when we were at the Frankfurt Biont game. I asked him if there was anybody he was excited about from the Frankfurt team. He went through just sort of looking at the roster. He was like, oh, this guy. He played there. Yeah, he was really good here. Oh, he combined

well with this guy. Oh, he was coached by this. He knew everything about every player. So we were really excited to have him on to talk about all things. Champions League, the teams that have advanced, the teams that didn't advance, and sort of the surprises along the way. We go through every single group, discuss the top teams, discuss what comes next, discuss lots of other stuff as well.

Really great to have. along the way. We go through every single group, discuss the top teams, discuss what comes next,

discuss lots of other stuff as well. Really great to have Sam on. We look forward to having him on

again as we get closer to the knockout round. But for now, here is my conversation with Mr. Sam Tai of

the BR Football Ranks podcast. With me on the line, I've got Sam Tye of the BR Football Ranks

podcast. The potentially award-winning football ranks podcast is how I should phrase that, I guess. Sam, thank you very much for taking the time. Thank you, buddy. Yeah, award-nominated. I don't think we're going to win it, mate. The same podcast has won it five years in a row, I think. Is that Football Weekly or Football Rammell or the...

It's the football weekly.

The boring one that everyone votes for all the time just because they don't like

trying new things.

Honestly, the fact that we've only been given two tickets to the ceremony and we're

declined a third, I think the writing is very much on the wall, my friend.

You were declined a third?

Yeah.

So there's three people on the podcast, and not all of us are allowed to go.

I lost the coin toss this week, and I'm not going to the ceremony.

Jack and Dean are my co-hosts instead.

But anyway, on a bright note, good to have you back in my life after our George to Germany.

I've been missing you.

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