Hello, everybody, and welcome to the weekend review edition of the total soccer show it's been a while since

i've done one of these hopefully i still remember how it has not been a while but a while since

my co-host today did one of these it's ryan bailey ryan bailey hello it's been a while i love

you quoting stained off the top of the show my favorite uh seminal popular beat combo thank you

very much then it's good to speak to you i have missed you dearly we much, Taylor. It's good to speak to you.

I have missed you dearly. We've had an international break. I had to speak to Darrell at one point during this charade. Oh, gosh, good to have you back. I'm sorry. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. You don't, it's your official policy that you try not to associate with people from Birmingham, right? from like the West Midlands area, you don't do that?

I mean, that's a good policy to keep for sure.

But, uh... that you try not to associate with people from Birmingham, right? From like the West Midlands area, you don't do that?

I mean, that's a good policy to keep for sure. But I make a notable exception for Total Soccer Show, of course. But I am very, very glad that the international break is over because, you know, as am I. Bad things happen, particularly if you're Mauritio and Pochitino. But hey, we could talk about that. Yeah, that happened.

That happened.

It's also the case that I'm happy to not have to try to find positive. Particularly for your own Murcio-Pocitino, but hey, we could talk about that. Yeah, right? Yeah, that happened. That happened.

It's also the case that I'm happy to not have to try to find positives in a routine win over Cuba. So I'm excited to talk about more dramatic things like Maricio Pocetino, Lys Tottenham, getting a win. Their first game under Jose Marino. Joe, Jose and Rino back in the Premier League, Ryan.

I'm going to assume you were excited about this,

although I did also see, I believe, a tweet in which you were crying about the loss of Pocitino? Well, the tweet with Pocitino on the whiteboard writing is irregular note on saying how much he was going to miss everybody. That was kind of, I like that. I mean, it's obviously a little bit staged because there's a photographer, you know, documenting it. But I thought it was nice. And there's some politics behind that, obviously. But, yeah, at first, when I woke up that morning and Marino, you know, holding up the shirt pictures came out, I literally had watched a couple of episodes of Black Mirror the

night before. And I was, for a minute, I was like, I haven't woken up yet. I'm still in one. I'm

sure I'm still in one here. But the more I think about it, the more I think it's kind of a good

thing for Tottenham. And I think this result for Tottenham was really good in the, you know, it was convincing out of the blocks, getting up to a 3-0 lead.

And then the problems were still there. The problems that Totten can't hold a lead very well.

The problems they switch off in the latter third ever game, they're still there.

So Marino knows what he's got to work on. Does that make sense?

It absolutely makes sense. And I agree entirely. But I want to start with the very beginning of

what you said. I want to start with the start. Ryan, how do you mentally prepare yourself to watch

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