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

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

Ryan Bailey will not be with us today.

He's off, I guess, wandering around Europe.

So instead I'll be taking over his hosting duties.

Joining me on this weekend review are two fellows up first,

a man who genuinely has me thinking we should all be watching the balloon world cup

Graham Ruffin hello and thank you for introducing me to the most mesmerizing thing I have seen in a while

I mean we're working off the assumption that that is what Ryan is away covering aren't we

I mean he should be and I hope so and if he's not, shame on him.

Yeah, I mean, you're absolutely right.

It is incredible, and I'm not kidding, like, I want to watch.

I hope Sky Sports pick up the live rights for the next iteration of the Blune World Cup,

because I just love how they set it up as a living room, like a living room in a squash court, which perfectly emulates how I used to play this game with my brother as a kid.

This could have been my calling.

It really, like, for people who haven't seen it, which is probably most people, because I only saw it because Graham said it to me this morning, it really is exactly as he just described, except also with a small SUV in there as well, but it's just two guys trying to keep a balloon alive. You have one hit. If it touches the ground, I guess you lose a point or the other player gains a point. But it was one of those things where I started watching and thought, like, this is kind of cute. And then became really rapidly invested in like the strategy and the tactics, the frustration when it gets

caught on the car and that allows the other player to catch up.

Graham, I really mean it.

Thank you for the introduction to Balloon World Cup.

No problem.

I also assume this is going to be a TSS spinoff when the next Balloon World Cup happens.

Like the Euros, we'll be doing it every day.

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