Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our latest check-in with the FIFA Club World Cup.

The Rounder 16 has delivered no shortage of upsets that the European minds simply cannot comprehend

with Inter and Man City, both failing against Non-UAFA opponents.

So we've got a blockbuster Rounder 16 matchups to get into,

and we're going to do it and hope there aren't any two-hour weather delays while we record this here podcast.

My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today to your friend and my friend, Mr. Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Taylor.

Hello, Ryan Bailey. It is currently thunderstorming yet again here in Richmond, Virginia, so I will be back in 30 minutes to resume my role in this show. For now, I hope you all continue on in my absence. Excellent. I hope you're stretching and complaining in equal measure, which seems to be what the players were doing during those periods. I've actually gone back to Italy. I hope that's not going to be a problem either. So it's, maybe it's going to be a little bit longer than 30 minutes. We'll see how it goes. Well, a couple of teams have done that too. More on that shortly. Hello, Graham. Muthman. How are you? Hello, Ryan Bailey. I'm very well. Taylor's continuing on. It's great to see you as well, Ryan continuing on, because it seems like you've been sent back to Cannibal Island going by the still image on our YouTube feed right now. Ah, yes. I must apologise to our YouTube contingent. Hello, everybody out there, Graham Woolvogue in a

second for you. My internet's not good enough for video today, so I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I mean, this is why our economy has collapsed, doesn't it? There's no suitable Wi-Fi in

this country. Apart from me, maybe Canary

Wharf should move in. I think far too much on download speeds, not enough on upload speeds. If I were a political campaign, Graham, I would campaign alone on having more upload speeds in the United Kingdom. This is boring internet chat, isn't it? It is, isn't it? Yeah. This is why there's not a British Mr. Beast because they just can't upload to the internet.

Well, there is, and their first video is still stuck. I just wanted to jump in from my thunderstorm delay to confirm that, yes, this is indeed boring internet chat. Okay, let's move on then. Very well. That's our brand. What else do we do? There's other stuff. There's a Patreon. Yeah, there is a Patreon. Thank you very much. Taylor, patreon.com slash Total Soccer Show is how you're going to access it. We've got bonus episodes, including some transfer chat coming to the feed. A Zhao! A J-wow has moved. Which one until where? We'll find out in patreon.com slash Total soccer show land where you'll also get access to our

Discord server. Thank you to everybody who supports us via that medium. Taylor Rockwell,

before we get into our Club World Cup in-depth chat, your general sentiment on this competition

as we are in the depths of the knockout rounds. How are we feeling? You feeling different to how we felt when this thing kicked off? Yeah, I think I'm a little more positive. I think I'm still not sort of like loving this tournament. I don't think I've fallen in love with it. The way I have other tournaments that I thought I wouldn't end up enjoying, like the Nations League, both the UAFan Nations League and the Concaf Nations League. I came to really appreciate those.

This one I've enjoyed some of the upsets we got.

We did not see Fluminense coming.

I think I dismissed them pretty handily when we talked about their game against Inter Milan.

Same thing for Al-Hal.

So getting some surprises has been really fun.

Getting some expected results like PSG over answer Miami was also kind of

enjoyable all the same I look forward to maybe like the next iteration when they worked out

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