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Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our latest foray into our listener questions today.

We're asking what's happening at Liverpool and Man United.

We're picking the players we like for no specific reason.

We're looking at European team merch and we're doing much, much, much, much more than that.

My name's Ryan Bailey joining me today, a man who doesn't love a late or least a free kick

as much as I do, Taylor Rockwell. Hello? Hello. I didn't love that one so much. I love the

opening goal. I love Manchester United winning. I did not love Furggy Time coming back to bite

Manchester United. But that was a fun game.

Sometimes you've got to drop points such as life. Yeah, I like to call it a calmic offset for any weekend off sides, Taylor. Ah, I see. That's what we're doing here. It's the soccer gods making up for the offside decision. All right, I'm good with that. That's fine. That's fine. I saw some people on Twitter going as far as saying, you know, the title has been decided in this week alone with these decisions and these late goals conceded.

Yeah, didn't work for me either, Taylor.

I see you. I mean, I think it will be, yeah, I was making a face at that one, mostly because it's like,

if you think Manchester United were heavily involved in that title race, I'm not sure I was in agreement.

I do think the suspension to Casamiro

will be a problem. Manchester United obviously playing Arsenal this weekend. That seems like a

tough one to replace. That seems like it's going to be bad for United. And so in that way,

maybe that that cements it as Arsenal versus Manchester City. We shall see.

Joining us, Taylor, a man who's definitely not watching Australian Open Tennis as he speaks to us today. Great, Ruffin. Hello. Hello, Ryan Bailey. Yes, not me at all. And I haven't been watching Australian Open Tennis since 2 in the morning. I have barely slept, I think, about an hour and a half sleep last night. Yeah, this is how it is for me at this time of year. January, always fun. I used to do lots of tennis work. Graham in January is my least favorite month of the year because of the Australian swing. And the US Open is pretty tough as well. So I believe it's half three in the morning in Australia and they're still playing. So at least we're not there. At least it's not half three in the morning when we're recording right now. Just think they're playing upside down and the toilets are flushing the wrong way and everything. It's crazy, right? And the loser gets a big boot as a punishment. That's right. I'd have to call it Charles Wazzo. Rounding out the pack, a man who loves listener questions like he loves analyzing USMNT camps. Joe Lowry, howdy. Howdy, Ryan Bailey. I do like listener questions. I do like analyzing USMNT camps. We got a roster yesterday for January camp. I told myself, guys, I told myself, this camp doesn't matter very much. There's no manager, blah, blah, blah. I'm not going to get excited. And then I look at the roster and I'm like, I'm kind of, I kind of like it. I'm kind of excited by a few of the names on this list. So we can chat about that in just a second, but Ryan, I'm happy to be here to do some listener questions. We're happy you're here. California, Joe, today. That's right. That's right. That's right. I'll be headed out to first, at least, if not both January camp games. I'll be a bank of California stadium on Wednesday, maybe. Joe, have you been allowed out of witness protection today? I have. So one of the consequences of me being away is that I am in a slightly larger room. So I have some pillows in front of me, maybe tomorrow, or I guess next week because we won't record tomorrow, but I'll have a few other soundproofing elements around me. But for

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