Welcome to the Total Soccer Show Weekend review. On today's show, we aim to have more presents than the North London Derby. More effectiveness than Chelsea in that final third. More detail than an Everton statement about firing their manager and we'll get to grips with things a little bit better than an Ivory coast goalkeeper. My name is Ryan Bailey. Joining me today is a man who's currently campaigning

for all MLS games to be shown on Nickelodeon. Hello, Graham Rutherland. Hello, Ryan Bailey. I mean,

yes, why would we not want MLS games to be on Nickelodeon? That looked like the best fun ever

last night. The slime monster and SpongeBob and yeah, I want that in MLS, please. Yeah, so this is the Cowboys 49ers playoff game on Sunday. I switched it on last night, Graham, on Sunday night, I should say, and was confused when on CBS they kept talking about we're showing it on Nickelodeon as well and it was just like gunged tanks gung monsters

lots of gunges because 1990s I suppose Graham that was the reason yeah because reasons I mean

that's that's good enough for me I mean MLS is already the most chaotic league in the world so

let's just add more chaos to the equation I say yeah get it on nickelodeon that should be

I know MLS has got a new TV deal coming up this year so I'm expecting Nickelodeon to be cut in one way or another get it on Nick the other the other thing from that uh the NFL game game I don't know if you caught it but it was at cowboy's stadium and one of the punts hit the scoreboard I saw that giant I think it's like 60 yards long scoreboard at that stadium um and they reminded me, I don't know if you remember this game. Like many years ago, Chelsea played a preseason game there. And there's footage. I think it's on YouTube somewhere of all the players in the warm-up just trying to hit it. Like all just launching balls at this thing. And they got me thinking, you know, that's going to happen professionally at some point. And I'm pretty sure it happened in a soccer game as well. What a disaster. Yeah. I mean, it seemed like the Cowboys were being thwarted by their own $2 billion stadium between hitting the scope, the video board above them. And then also I think the kickers were being blinded by the sun out the other side of the stadium through the windows. So yeah, maybe design your stadium a little bit better. Yeah, maybe just build another billion dollar stadium where it doesn't go from east to west and kind of giant. Yeah, just next door. Yeah, just in a little bit fine. There's loads room in Texas. It's all good. Also here, Graham, is a man who lives in a warm, arid desert, but unlike FIFA President Johnny Infantino, he doesn't live in Qatar.

It's Arizona.

Joe Lowry.

Oh, Ryan, you don't know it yet, but I actually made my own move to Qatar over the weekend.

So the time zone's all wacky.

I'm still trying to adjust.

But things are, no, I didn't do that.

Johnny Infantino moving to Qatar does not feel like a coincidence and really doesn't

feel like it can lead to anything good. But something that I do think is good, Ryan, is how low you set the bar for us on this show being more effective than Chelsea in the final third, doing a better job than Sengare, the Ivory Coast goalkeeper. All of those things, I'm really confident that we can do. I can't wait. They were all subpar things, Joe.

I was just setting us at par. I think that's acceptable for us. Great. I can work with that. That's the range that I think we thrive in, guys. Definitely so. And the range that Infantino is thriving in is somewhere in Doha at the moment, according to the Swiss outlet, Blick. He now lives there. He has done since October. Two of his kids even go to school there,

so it's probably something to do with the World Cup,

which is lives there. He has done since October. Two of his kids even go to school there. So it's probably something to do with the World Cup, which is happening there very soon.

But he's definitely putting down some roots there. All seems very above board and totally cool to

me because FIFA conducts his business from Qatar by Switzerland now, Joe. Wonderful. Yeah,

cool. Yeah, great. I think you just described the entire 20-22 World Cup and all the issues surrounding that, not just Johnny Evantino, but maybe he's just a microcosm of what we're all trying to parse through for November and December. Ryan, I think you're onto something. And also, I think I'm sad on a Monday morning. I'm not really sure what's going on right now. I'm sorry about the sadness show,

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