Weekend Review! European Super League drama, Mourinho gets the boot, MLS returns & Messi wins another cup!
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🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Ryan, Taylor and Graham are here to discuss the weekend’s best action—and the story that could redefine the sport: the announcement of the breakaway European Super League.
- The European Super League! A fundamental and seismic change to the sport at its highest level might be on the cards, with the announcement of a breakaway league. What does this mean for the teams involved, the players, and the sporting integrity of the beautiful game as a whole?
- Jose Mourinho! The Special One was given his marching orders on Monday, a matter of days before the League Cup Final. Seems harsh, but there's a (cynical) reason for the timing...
- Chelsea vs. Man City: The FA Cup! How quaint! We look at how Tommy Tuchel got the better of Pep Guardiola at Wembley!
- Barcelona vs. Athletic Club: Lionel Messi got his hands on the (massive) Cope Del Rey trophy once again, at poor Bilbao's expense.
- Inter Miami vs. LA Galaxy: The pick of the MLS litter on opening weekend was a thoroughly enjoyable affair in Fort Lauderdale!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Total Super League show. Sorry, I mean the Total Soccer show, my name is Ryan Bailey, |
| 0:24.9 | and joining me today to talk through a weekend of action and a fairly sizable story that's |
| 0:29.5 | evolving off the field as we speak is a man who has never faced the risk of expulsion from |
| 0:34.3 | FIFA or Yo'IFA for competitions, to my knowledge, Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:37.9 | To my knowledge, either, I have not, but we'll see how it goes. We'll see how this episode plays out and we'll see what the ramifications might be. Yeah, I mean, you're not in the autumn years of your career or anything, Taylor. You've got time to get expelled from any number of governing bodies, I'd say. I mean, let's hope, let's hope. Joining Taylor and I is a man who wasn't expecting |
| 0:36.9 | Josie Marino being fired to be the second biggest story we talk about today. Graham Rubin? Hello, Ryan. I know what's going on? Joseph Marino getting fired. Hansi Flix saying he wants to leave Birmingham. It's all secondary to this giant, just this giant story that I'm struggling to comprehend a little bit |
| 1:12.3 | and I'll do my best so my thoughts are not just noises today. |
| 1:17.0 | Look, let's transport ourselves back to Saturday, gents. We were looking forward to a Monday |
| 1:21.3 | review show where we talked about the FA Cup, the start of MLS, maybe a few fun japes that |
| 1:26.8 | happened here and there on the field. And here |
| 1:29.3 | we are, the European Super League has exploded on Sunday afternoon. It appeared that 10 of Europe's |
| 1:36.0 | biggest clubs plus Arsenal and Tottenham were backing a breakaway, three teams from Italy, three |
| 1:41.5 | from Spain, and six that purported big six from England. |
| 1:45.8 | That news became confirmed later in the evening while most of Europe was asleep, cynical. |
| 1:51.4 | A joint statement was issued by all 12 of those teams, and it confirmed the format, |
| 1:56.2 | and you can see confirmation of the format of this new proposed European Super League at the Superleague.com. |
| 2:03.3 | Essentially, it is 20 teams, 15 of whom will be permanent. |
| 2:06.9 | There are three floating spots, but it seems like they're trying to get PSG and a couple of German size to join. |
| 2:12.4 | But that hasn't been confirmed as we speak. |
| 2:15.7 | Remaining five spots there would be for teams somehow earning qualification to this competition, |
| 2:21.9 | which is purported to start next August. |
| 2:25.0 | The reason the motivator here being the motivator for most of these big clubs these days, |
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