Welcome to the Total Soccer Show weekend review.

Arsenal remained top of the league after the seventh game in a row they've refused to concede.

And Man City moved up to second place after bumping Bournemouth down in the title race.

And Liverpool finally ended their winless run when they scored two and Villa scored none.

And the feelings of Tottenham fans were fully revealed when Chelsea beat them and they were booed

off the field. But the Premier League team who deserves the most acclaim is West Ham, who actually

won a game. Elsewhere Milan faced Roma and were victorious. Spilletti's reign at Juventus started off pretty glorious. Celtic won the old firm and they were basking in Martin O'Neill's glow and by Munich won for the millionth game in a row.

My name's Ryan Bailey. Join me today in a Dynamic Joe on the weekend review. It's Mr. Graham Ruffin. Hello, Graham. How are you?

I'm very well. Ryan Bailey, how are you? Happy birthday to you? You thought I'd forgotten,

didn't you? You thought I'd forgotten that. The truth is, I had forgotten until I saw it on LinkedIn this

morning. So you were hoisted by your own corporate petards there. Isn't it a bit sad that the way I find out about most people's birthdays these days is also LinkedIn. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, even sadder than that, maybe this is just me, but I've got from back in the day, like old bossy's birthdays in my Apple calendar that must have, it's just been in there for like a decade. So someone I'm not even spoken to for years.

But I've got their birthday, I've got their address and like their social security number and everything. And that iPhone. Everything. Yeah. Brilliant. Wow. What you do anything nice? You do anything nice? I am. Thank you very much. Thank you, Graham, for your sentiment as well. We are recording as a dynamic duo because we're a couple of men down today, but we are plenty of weekend to go through.

But later today. as well. We are recording as a dynamic duo because we're a couple of men down today, but we are

plenty of weekend to go through. But later today, I am going to the city of Atlanta in Georgia, Graham,

to see an 83-year-old man from Liverpool sing songs for three hours. How about that? Oh, the best living

beetle, Wrangel Star, of course. I'm surprised that he's still, he's able to carry off a stadium tour in 2025. But, you know, Octopus's Garden, that's a banger. That's you're talking about, right? No, I'm going to see the best guy in wings. Do you remember that band Wings? Yes, the best guy for me. Fairly. Yeah. This is the band my dad likes. Yeah, yeah. All of our dads like Paul McCartney. I'm looking forward to going to see that later on today. Thank you very much, Graham. But plenty of weekend to get into, as I say. Before we get to all the action there, Patreon.com slash total soccer show is the best way to support us. And Al wants to go see 83-year-old men from Liverpool go and play songs. You can get bonus. Episodeso, including Weekend Review Extra. Plenty going on in their weekend, Graham, isn't there? Lots to talk about. There is indeed, including an old firm derby. Only the second of the season. We're just into November. And we're already moving through them quickly them quickly This was an interesting one Unlike the one earlier in the season Which I think I called on the weekend Or the worst game I'd ever seen This was not quite at that level This was not And plenty of narrative around it To get into as well Graham That'll be fun to unpack And a lovely track suit from Martin Neal as well I don't know if you saw that He not 83, I believe he's 73, but he carries himself with at least 63 year old energy, I'd say.

Especially in that Adidas original's track suit, which I get not to labour the point, but if listeners haven't seen it, go and seek it out on the internet.

He was asked about it after the game because it's not like a classic sort of like footballers track suit. And basically he said that in the footballers track suit, do you know what I mean by this, Ryan? He was saying that like around his legs, they were tight. They were like nylon stockings. He said he looked like Robin Hood. So he asked what else they had and they handed them like this sort of street wear original's track suit it's great he pulled it off yeah um yeah that's kind of a the soccer track suit bottom

is like they they're deliberately tight around the calves these days right that's a thing yeah

presumed so you can play football in them right so you don't have it would help track suit waving

around but martin neal he wasn't for having it but what if you got likeish calves? How do you get them on? You just cut them like they do with the socks, big holes in them. Thus defeating the purpose of long pants in the first place. Wonderful stuff. Anyway, more on that on Weekend Review Extra. You'll also get our bonus video content on our bonus feed and access to our Discord server. All of the cool kids are hanging out in our Discord server. Patreon.com slash Total Soccer Show. A please, Anna, thank you. All right, Graham, what say you and me have a chat about the Premier League from this weekend? Should we start off in North London, where Spurs had a one-nil defeat at the hands of Chelsea, El Pedro, with the goal in the 34th mid in this one. Maybe not the best defending in that moment. And Spurs booed off the field, as I mentioned in the intro at the end. So Frank Ball is also not impressing at this time. So what's, can we get a vibe check, Graham, on Frank Ball and what the fans are thinking of it at this point?

I'm not sure I can give you a vibe check. It's very confusing around Spurs at the moment, where in terms of the results, they've had a decent start to the season, particularly considering this as a team that finished 17th in the league last year.

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