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That's go-to-meeting.com slash tips. Hello and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Darrell Grove and I'm joined by a man who's played poker long enough.

His name is Taylor

Rockwell. Hello. There's no such thing as playing poker long enough until it's like 4 a.m.

and you realize that you definitely should have quit playing poker long, long ago.

Or if you're the Sunderland owner, 11 p.m. right at the end of January. We will be talking

about Sunderland Till I Die, episode four in the second half of today's show. Up first, Taylor. Yes, sir. We've collected all the soccer news that we could find. We have indeed. There has been some news. Certainly none of it on the field, unless you're following the Belarusian League and their attempts to have like cardboard cutouts of fans in the stands.

But we're not going to talk about that.

We're going to talk about some actual news from around the world. Some of it good, some of it bad, some of it somewhat in between. All of it, Newsy. There we go. There we go. Newsy. first up i think this story was first published in the new york times terryange, who's a journalist I've come to really enjoy his work.

He had an interview with Christian Seifert, who is the CEO of the Bundesliga, who laid out the plan of the Bundesliga may be back in action at the beginning of May,

and that Bundesliga, one and two clubs are already

practicing, albeit with still social distancing. I'm not sure exactly how this practice sessions

work, but apparently it's happening. And my genuine response to seeing that news was,

yeah, that sounds right. That sounds like Germany. That doesn't surprise me at all.

It does, right? It really does. It's worth noting this isn't definitely, definitely happening, right?

I feel like a lot of responsive to this have been sort of, how can they do that?

I think it's more that the Bundesliga is just putting plans in place so that things are ready to go if things go well. Yeah. I think it's also like it is worth noting, and I have some more on this later on, that like, lots of the leagues are doing this as well, are setting their plans in place because you have to have plans in place and they're all sort of here are our dates and then there's the sentence at the end of, but obviously it's subject to change based on what the government says. if the government says no, then we're not going to do it. And I think that's the exact same thing with the Bundesliga. Maybe they just said it so definitively or so confidently that that's why they've gotten more of a backlash. Maybe it's that Christian Seafoot of the Bundesliga was the only one who knew to call the New York Times. That could also be. Right? Yeah.

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