Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our first weekend review of the 22-23 season.

Liverpool struggled out at the gate at Fulham and it was hard to see why, but then Yergen Klopp

explained, the grass was too dry. Manchester United will rock by Brighton. When a tired squad of

players, Eric Ten Hargis put together

As so far failed to enlighten

Man City took three points in the East London region

With a very impressive display by a giant Norwegian

And elsewhere, Messi scored an overhead kick

By Munich were very sick

And Georgio Colini acted like a completely professional defender for the most part of his game.

My name's Ryan Bailey joining me today a man who's absolutely loving the Man United Transfer Room as Taylor Rockwell.

Hello.

Oh, they're wonderful. It's exactly what I expected to wake up to this morning.

Squad and free fall doesn't seem like there's much chemistry or consistency.

Let's add two players who are known to be problematic and difficult to deal with to a locker room that's already

difficult and problematic to deal with. What could possibly go wrong? Shambles. Shambles all

around. More on that kind of tone shortly, I imagine. Okay. Just for the listener, you have a slightly different audio quality today because I understand you are trapped in a small room in your house. Oh, this is true. This is true, yes. We have multiple people coming by to do multiple things at the house. So I am recording from home, which means I'm recording from my closet. This is actually you're just hiding from the demon owls, isn't it? Yes. This is what they reduce you to. There is that, yes. Joining us a man, you just heard, he's always on time, much like his struggling, his Sterling album season ticket, which arrived a couple of minutes before he left to the game on Saturday. Is that right, Grandmother? Yes.

I mean, I'm not sure whether to say punctuality isn't Sterling Albion's strong suit or it is.

Maybe it was designed to arrive just as I was leaving so that it was to hand nice and easy.

Yes, cutting things a little bit fine.

Sterling Albion, the first home game of the season kicked off at 3 and it appeared through the letter box just after 12 midday and I live just over an hour away from

the stadium. So that was a little bit close for comfort. And how did the game go, Graham? Terrible. We

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