Welcome to the total soccer show and our latest round of listener questions.

On this episode, we're considering the best loan signings of all time.

We're looking at Man United's wage bill, and we're doing that classic European country

with horizontal strike flags versus European countries with vertical strike lasting.

It's a thing. My name's Ryan Bailey joining me today. Taylor Rocco, hello, Taylor. Hello, Ryan. I spent so much time on that question. I went back and forth. I created lineups. I had to look at a lot of different flags to figure out which players fit where. Then I got confused a couple of times and had to go back and start all over again. but I'm very excited to talk about that one and all the other ones today. It is good. Horizontal versus vertical stripes of Europe. It's a good concept. We'll get to that very shortly. Hey, Taylor, the vertical stripes are the upy ones, the horizontal stripes are the sidey ones, if that helps in your confusion. Oh, I got to that. I to do some planning again. Oh, boy. Switch the drawing board very quickly. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Yeah. Hello, Graham Ruther. Did you also discover that Andorra and Moldova have stripes in their flags this week? I had a look at a lot of flags. And the best thing about this question is, no England. They don't count as either. They are both

and so they are disqualified and that made me very happy. Cool. Joe Lowry. Joe Lowry, how are you?

And what do we feel about Portugal? Because is it, is it blocks of colour? Are they strikes?

Oh, we're already getting into this. I mean, I certainly didn't put Portugal in. I mean, it's, it's two blocks, so it doesn't fit stripes or three. Extrapolate them, Joe. There could be stripes. But they're not put in others that might, this is already an essay. I feel like you all... What?

This is not super complicated. I would say. Portugal has red and green and the thing in the middle and there's only two blocks, stripy things. So that one's clear. Stripy things, did you say? Yeah. Yeah. Two of them. Not three of them. Two is the thing that you're missing out on there. Yeah. I did include Portugal but I did Poland for the horizontal

so I didn't see that either. I was joking about... The question says three stripes, two separate moments in the question.

Oh, it does.

Oh, I didn't see that either. I was joking about not reading the question and not being prepared.

You guys made that reality.

Is this like, you know how over a certain age there's like a frequency that people can't hear?

Is this like a British thing?

Ryan is something about the way that this question was...

Knowing numbers and shapes.

Sure.

Yeah. It's an education thing.

Well, I'm looking forward to which side we put Portugal on later on in the episode.

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