Weekend Review: No M&M, but Messi debuts for PSG, Arsenal implode against City, El Tráfico stays wild, and much more
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🗓️ 30 August 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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It was a packed weekend of soccer action! On this episode, Taylor, Ryan, Graham, and Joe discuss games from around the world, starting in the Premier League before dipping into MLS, France, Scotland, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:59.7 | It was a weekend where Chelsea showed us they were a bit like the Spice Girls. |
| 1:03.6 | They'll still bring the goods when one of the team drops out. |
| 1:06.5 | Arsenal showed us they're a bit like Limp Biscuit, pretty big in the late 90s and early 2000s, but you wouldn't admit you were a fan of them right now. PSG showed us they were a bit like the travelling wheelberries, packed with megastars, that you remember more fondly from other things. And both L-AFC and L.A. Galaxy showed us they were like any band with a bad drummer, as they weren't interested in keeping it tight at the back. |
| 1:29.3 | My name is Ryan Bailey. Joining me today is a man who always trust the process, Taylor Rockwell. |
| 1:36.2 | I do accept when the process relates to assembling supergroups because sometimes they hit. |
| 1:41.3 | Oftentimes they really do miss. Right, I was listening to The Highway Men this weekend, which is Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Chris Christofferson, and Whalen Jennings. They should be great. They sound so low energy, like even they don't want to be there. And they're covering all these great songs. And it was disappointing. Yeah, sometimes when you assemble the All-Star Squad, it doesn't have that level of positivity and energy that maybe you want from the more organic structure. Have you heard the high women, I think it's called as well? It's like Marin Morris and a few other female country stars, Taylor? I have not. I can't tell if that's a Ryan Bailey joke or if that's real. No, it's true. That's a thing. That's a thing. Now I can't tell if that's a Ryan Bailey joke. See, it's ongoing. It's a whole House of Mirrors situation. |
| 2:22.6 | I can assure you you can look on your music player later and find them, Taylor. But in the meantime, my point about trusting the process, I've always wondered what that phrase means because I understand about the concept of being process driven |
| 2:34.1 | and process led, but does it just mean we're not making it up on the spot? |
| 2:39.9 | I mean, I think it used to mean like, hey, we've got a process, we've got a system, you've just |
| 2:45.1 | got to give it some time. When you've been there for a good long while and the process continues |
| 2:49.5 | to seem like as soon as it does |
| 2:51.6 | start functioning a thing. It's like trusting the process behind building a DeLorean. |
| 2:55.5 | Like eventually you've got to realize that maybe this process isn't working for mass producing |
| 2:59.3 | a vehicle and you scrap the plans altogether and at that point you're no longer trusting the process. |
| 3:04.1 | I don't know if that's how close to the edge arsenal are, but maybe they should be, or maybe they should invent a time machine and go back and change some things. Oh, yeah, the history of the DeLorean, and I'm seeing the history of Arsenal right now. There's some intertwining factors there, Taylor. Let's say that. Anyway, joining us here is a man who would definitely play more than 30 minutes on his PSG debut. It's Joe Lowry. |
| 4:31.1 | I'm starting, man, there's no way I'm coming off the bench. It was, to be honest, though, it was kind of a cool moment. I know the whole messy Namar Mbapaytrio didn't happen, and that made me genuinely really sad. But it's so sad that I just took my microphone. But I will say, there is some level of impressiveness when you're coming off the bench and you can have that ovation. I don't know. I thought there was some value in that. There was some value, but it was surely massive trolling from Ritsay Pochitino to take off Namar at the point you bring on their team, right? Oh, of course. Yeah, I don't know if Potch just had a bad morning, had a bad day, had a bad week, but we wanted to see it, Potch. Come on, man. We will, I'm sure, in the near future, Joe. We'll be talking about that PSG game later on in the show as well. But joining us in our quadrant, quadrant, quadruple, Fawson. It's a man who won't be found on Twitter complaining about a referee looking at a steel image. It's Graham Rutherland. Hello, Ryan. Yes, that's not me. The Twitter discourse over the weekend was pretty wild over some of the refereeing decisions. I'm really glad that we now have VAR to sort everything out and to make sure there's no debate about any contentious stuff. |
| 4:34.7 | Yeah, it's cleared everything right up, isn't it? It's done exactly what it intended. So that's wonderful, Graham. You're quite right there. The Twitter discourse, I was interested in |
| 4:38.7 | Graham, however, was a video of a Scotsman saying three words. Oh, no. |
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