Arson Vanger is a legend. He's also an enigma, but he's an original. There will never be another Vanger. The modern game doesn't allow for it. Churnum and burn them. That's modern sports.

Hello, Sunshine.

I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union Podcast,

where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field

through the lens of red, white, and blue colored glasses.

As you heard, we'll be pouring one out for Arsenvanger's historic Arsenal Run.

We will have our Mossy Makes the Case segment.

We'll be answering your questions in our Ask Alexi segment.

We'll have our World Cup Date segment and so much more.

But first, as always, joining me, my friend, my colleague,

my guiding light, David Mossy, a soccer savant

and a Fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary. A soccer saucy, a soccer

researcher and writer extraordinary.

How are you, Mr. Massey?

I am good.

The Jersey of choice this week is an old school Rivalto Barcelona Jersey.

Ooh, and any particular reason for this Jersey?

Well, he was very much in the news this past weekend for suggesting that Namar should go to

Real Madrid, which as a Barcelona legend saying that was quite the story.

Well, this weekend, I watched a lot of soccer, but I also refereed. I refereed my first adult game.

And this was a Hispanic League. Everyone was speaking Spanish Spanish including yours truly screaming

and yelling back at these over 38 players they actually were pretty good

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