Hello and welcome everyone to The Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

With me today is a gentleman who, after lots of introspection and soul searching,

has decided not to join the European Super League.

He was invited, but he's not joining.

It's Adam Snavely, the Baron Lord Snavington.

Adam, I know it was a tough choice.

I appreciate you making the right one in the end.

And I really do appreciate Florentino and Stan Crunky and the boys, as they are collectively

referred to in my group chat with them, for inviting me, who is a royal family member, I suppose, if we're using my full title, it makes

sense that I would be invited to the European Super League.

But alas, I was forced to decline over concerns of the death of the game that we love.

That's almost as convincing of a statement as the ones actually put out by some of the

Premier League clubs.

So well done to you.

I will also add, I wasn't really planning to go like straight into advocating for phone

hacking, but since we're here, I compared this, the Super League and the kind of establishment,

the news behind it, the sort of haphazard feel to it to the Turkish coup from a few years ago and that that was all sort of like happened and like felt sort of disjointed and then inevitably collapsed.

And a thing that remains from that coup is that it was all, all communication was via WhatsApp.

So you can still read all of the messages

from the WhatsApp group about what was happening and when. And I do think to your point,

there is probably a group chat somewhere with Florentino Perez and Andre Angelli and

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