Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our latest edition of Take It or Leave It.

It's a simple concept. You send us your hot takes and we decide if we're going to take them or if we're going to leave them.

Today we're talking about getting rid of VAR, firing managers mid-season and sending Western McKenny to the Bundesliga.

My name's Ryan Bailey, joining me today with his takes on your takes, Taylor Rock or.

Hello, Taylor.

Hello, my friend. How are you?

I am marvellous.

I've got that raccoon energy running through me for some reason.

Not sure why.

Not sure why.

I mean, watching that raccoon just evade tackle after tackle, I would really enjoy that level of energy these days. It would be lovely. Indeed. Joining us also a man who sadly lives in a region that's raccoon-free. Graham Ruth and hello, Graham. Hello, Ryan Bailey. We were talking about this before we started recording. I've never encountered a raccoon, so I had to

clarify whether they're actually like nasty little guys, whether that cute face and cute demeanor belies a nasty street.

But I've been informed that, no, they're actually quite cool. So I wish Scotland would introduce

raccoons into our ecosystem. I mean, I can bring one over when I'm going to come over this summer.

Maybe I'll introduce them and you're allowed to do that kind of thing, right? Yeah, that's not a problem at all. I mean, if he evades, if raccoons evade tackles like the one last night did, then maybe they'll get called up to the Euros. That's the messy influence on MLS on that raccoon. A raccoon fallback for the Scottish national team. Can we imagine it? Joe Lowry, how are you, sir? I am great. Unfortunately for Graham, that raccoon will not be able to play for Scotland because his given name is Rakhino and is absolutely Brazilian. You saw the way he was moving around the field. He's got that, he's got a little bit of that, I don't know, just that sauce to him. I don't think Scotland are allowed to have that.

I think Rikino's only played for the under 18s, the under 16s and Brazilian level, though, so maybe. Oh, you think he's a dual nat? You think he's a dual nat? Wow. The increasingly common Scottish, British dual national, excuse me, Brazilian dual national. Yeah. Listen, if you have no idea what we're talking about,

there was a raccoon on the field

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Thank you very much indeed. Joe, what say we get to these tiolis, take it or leave it? What do you think? Dioli, let's do it. See, see, Dioli. All the cool kids are calling it that they've not got time to say. in fall Cooper has been in touch and says, getting rid of VAR entirely would be absolute nonsense.

I would 10 out of 10 rather have VAR and its issues than have to watch 12 different angles of a clearly awful missed call about which nothing can be done because VAR is ruining the experience.

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