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Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer show.

I am yelling because it's a Friday, but it's also a USM&T deep dive review Friday.

Joe and I recorded a quick take hot take last night that ran for roughly 30 minutes, so not that quick of a take.

Here with me to talk about the game in even more detail, I will say, Is Joe Lowry? Hello, Joe. How was the rewatch? Rewatch was great. Taylor, rewatch was nice. A little bit of sleep was nice. Life is good. Lovely, man. Joining us this morning all the way from the second smartest city in Scotland. It's honorary American Graham Ruffin, who is presently wearing a Scotland shirt. Graham, that's a good way to get your honorary citizenship revoked. Well, that's fine. It's got Stuart Holden's name on the back.

Okay. honorary American Graham Ruffin who is presently wearing a Scotland shirt. Graham, that's a good way to get your honorary citizenship revoked. Well, that's fine. It's got Stuart Holden's name on the back. So we're good. How are you, Taylor? Are you, are you high on the thrill of the USA's first shutout win away from home in eight years? Taken straight from backheeled.com. Couldn't quite believe that. Which was taken straight from Paul Carr. Let's go. Couldn't believe that when I read it. Eight years, man. What a ride that's been. Yeah. I also saw, I think the stat was like, Pochitino has now won as many games on the road in Concaf as Greg Burrhalter, which is, I hope, not true. I hope that's just an erroneous stat that's done the rounds, but it has been doing the rounds.

So who knows if it is true?

Graham, you are a warrior, my friend, to stay up to watch a Nations League glorified friendly

between the United States and Jamaica.

You were up for the entirety of it.

What was the process for that like for you?

Yeah, there was a point last night at about 3.15 a.m. where I thought it was hallucinating. And then I realized, actually, no, Steve McLaren is the Jamaica manager. And that is the reality that we're living in. But Porchino's the USA manager as well. It's a weird world right now. I did wonder if Ryan had watched that one,

just seeing him sat there, Steve McLaren, with head and hands managing a national team,

if that would have brought back any painful memories for Ryan and England supporters. Graham,

did it bring back joyous memories for you? Oh, yes, absolutely. Anytime there's the opportunity

to lay eyes on Steve McLaren, I will take that opportunity. I'm not sure if Ryan was able to watch the game. I'm not sure if Gianni had it on in his penthouse at the top of the fretboard at the Semino Hard Rock Hotel. It was somewhere on the low E-string, I think, is where it was. Right. I'm going to move away from thinking about Ryan and Gianni and Fentino partying together because that's troubling in so many different ways. Grimm, like, did you sleep ahead of time? Did you just drink a bunch of sugary things and eat a bunch of candy prior to the match? What kept you up? Come on. That's a standard Thursday night for me. I'm trying to think what I had. I had cereal, I had Haribo,

and I had copious cups of tea. That's what they had me going. So a normal meal. Got it.

Cool. Okay. Not much out of the ordinary for you. Grim, my other introductory question,

much was made of the pitch last night. I guess I watched on the Udivirso broadcast, apparently on the American broadcast,

the English language broadcast, it was brought up maybe twice every minute, is what it sounded

like based on some of the comments I saw. For you watching where you were, Graham, how was the

quality of the pitch? Is that a consistently interesting thing about Concaf? Interesting, in quotes.

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