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Tch, tch. Hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

I'm Taylor Rockwell, no Daryl Grove with me today, because instead I've got a man who's going to explain precisely what is wrong with Barcelona and provide specific details on exactly how they can win the treble next season.

It's Graham Ruffin. Graham, that sounded easily doable for you?

Oh, absolutely, yeah. They should just hire me to do the job. I don't know why they bother with these qualified football coaches. Just get me.

Are they hiring qualified football coaches? I didn't know that. All right, cool. Well, let's start with Barcelona because as the introduction sort of implied, we're going to go heavy on them, at least up front. We'll get to Madrid,

topping the table, Athletico Madrid's performances, Valencia struggling, relegation candidates,

all that good stuff. But the situation at Barcelona is likely going to be the inspiration for like

several books a year or two from now. So I think we're justified in taking some time focusing on them. They drew with Adletico yesterday to two, too. That's their second draw in four days. There were some good moments in that game as they were against Adletti. Then there were some very telling moments in a negative way. What were your thoughts watching that match? Did you think that Barcelona were going to kind of pull it out? they'd find a way through that Messi would kind of elevate them again, or did you see those sort of warning signs that maybe things weren't going to go smoothly? Yeah, I wasn't surprised at all by the performance that Barcelona put in against Athlete and also the game against Celtivigo a few days earlier, which they also drew two-two. I mean, those two games, obviously the fixtures are coming thick and fast at the moment.

I'm not entirely sure what day it is anymore.

It's just one big long dystopian day with football on every day.

But in the space of, I believe, it's about four or five days, Barcelona's season has come crumbling down,

and I don't think anyone who has watched them over the course of the campaign will be that

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