Welcome to the Total Soccer Show weekend review.

If you like a Manchester team, well that's a shame as both City and United's performances were pretty lame.

Aston Villa put in an impressive show as Pep's team made it three losses in a row.

And United season, it's complete toast after being undone by some upstarts from the South Coast.

Liverpool, meanwhile, came to London and brought the thunder.

It doesn't look good for the grumpy man from down under.

An Arsenal won and left Crystal Palace feeling forlorn.

What a perfect time of year for Jesus to be reborn.

In Spain, Athletico Madrid were full of festive cheer with a rare win at Barcelona to see out the year.

In Germany, by Munich offered seasons greetings by giving R.B. Leipzig one hell of a beating.

And in Italy, on the day when you'll get a visit from Santa, the top of the table will be occupied by Atalanta. My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today, your friend, my friend, it's Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Taylor. Hello, Ryan. This is me applauding that introduction. As always, nicely done, my friend. Thank you very much. I like a polite golf clap. It's the best kind of clap you can get, arguably. I suspect I've been too loud at various points prior to starting recording. And then also just as you began your introduction, I believe both my children, who are home for the winter break, began screaming. So between those couple things, I felt like a quiet golf clap was the way to go to kind of round things out. There we go. Yeah, I'm also battling both children at home. our washing and washer and dryer, which is near where I record, it's basically a laundry at our house because they're constantly running. Yep. So I've had to switch those off as well, so hopefully not too much audio interference on my part. Graham Rubbins here though, butting in. Hello, Graham. Hello, Ryan. My child, my five-year-old daughter, has basically gone feral the last couple of days. I don't know whether... Is that a normal thing for children of that age? It's called genetics. You know that bit in the Grinch, the Jim Carrey one, where there's like a Grinch baby, and the baby's just basically munching bobbles. And, like, that was essentially Sophie yesterday. Like, she's gone feral at this point. Yeah, let's all clear out of it, Joe.

Explain what munching bables means. Go ahead, Joe. Eating bibles. What's a bauble, dude? That wasn't the word that threw us. Like an ornament? Yeah, like the ornament. Right. I'm helping out here. The circular, the spherical ornament is a bobble in the United Kingdom. Do we not say that in the States?

Maybe we do.

I've never heard it before.

Maybe I'm, problem. Anyway, the tree is gone. My daughter has eaten the tree. Okay. In the US, Graham, they tend to use more complicated terminology. So it's probably called a holiday tree enhancement ornament.

I'm sure that's what they call it.

I was like you guys were the literalists.

Like, roundy round, you know, I feel like that would be more than the bruntie

glasses.

Sure.

But what here says eyeglasses.

Anyway, Joe Lowry.

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