Hello and welcome to the total soccer show. It's Monday and Taylor should be here, but my name is Daryl Grove and I'm here instead. And I'm joined by a man who's just come back from the dentist. His name is Ryan Bailey. Ryan, when you say hello, please don't be all muffled like they numbed your mouth. Oh no. Hello, Daryl. Thank you so much for having me on this wonderful Monday. Yes, I

have just got back from the dentist. It's not such a bad dentist I go to, actually. It's one of those ones where, like, they have a TV and they pull it over you and they put on that, like, today's show and stuff, so I got to catch up on some inane nonsense while I was there, too. Wonderful. So it's not like the National Health Service dentist.

No, so my dentist, my British dentist growing up was awful.

Like they had a picture. nonsense while I was there too. Wonderful. So it's not like the National Health Service dentist.

No, so my dentist, my British dentist growing up was awful. Like they had a picture,

they had a picture on the wall, right, of like this caricature of an old man pulling a tooth out of presumably his wife's mouth with like a piece of rope or string. That's what I can

remember about the dentist office I went to and I had problems with this guy. But this place, yeah, breath of fresh air, quite literally speaking, American dentistry is wonderful. So was the string and illustration of a procedure they might do? Or is it a warning of what will happen to you if you don't visit the dentist? I think it was an instruction manual source for the dentist, yeah. Well, I'm glad that you're fighting fit and ready for another episode of the Total Soccer Show.

Because we've got some big games to talk about, right?

Today we're going to be talking what I'm going to call the new English classical.

Liverpool Man City.

Lester Arsenal.

What you've labelled in our document, Pulisic fc which i think is the the correct uh the correct

nomenclature for chelsea right now and of course de classica de classica which spoiler alert

did not go the way baruccia dormant wanted it did not it did not yeah that's another sort of

newvo um rivalry isn't it relatively speaking that one as well yeah in terms of uh like sort of racing for, isn't it? Relatively speaking, that one as well.

Yeah, in terms of like sort of racing for the Bundesliga title, but sort of not.

Yeah, if they can feel like they're going to do that.

Yeah.

But in terms of Liverpool Man City, this is the biggest game in English soccer right now.

Do you think it deserves to be elevated to having a bit more of important a bit more of important status in terms of a, I don't want to use word derby, but you know, a rivalry. I mean, it's certainly like the game that sort of decides the title in a way. Not that like it actually decides the title when you play it, but these are the two teams going for the title. So it has that, these are the two big teams air about it right so

it's weirdly more like Barcelona around Madrid than than anything else which really speaks poorly

of you know Manchester United Arsenal uh Chelsea uh spurs right now um we will be we're talking about

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