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🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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We take a look at your most recent questions, including...
1) The lows of soccer fandom: getting over a tough loss
2) What's the best place to sit when watching a game: behind the goal or at midfield?
3) Should Concacaf experiment with the format and structure of the Gold Cup, given its frequency?
4) What makes a B Squad a B Squad - aka, when does it officially become a B Team?
5) Will Wales make the World Cup without Gareth Bale?
6) What is the realistic world ranking for the 2025 US Gold Cup team?
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0:32.5 | Music Hello, hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer show. |
0:57.0 | It's listener questions time. |
0:59.3 | I'm very excited. |
1:00.2 | My name is Taylor Rockwell. |
1:01.7 | And on today's episode, we're talking where to sit at football matches. |
1:05.9 | We're talking Gold Cup format changes, B teams, and Graham's favorite topic, Wales. |
1:12.4 | Graham, how excited are you, Graham Ruffin, to talk about the Welsh national team at yet |
1:17.6 | another major international competition? |
1:20.2 | Oh, as excited as always, just, yeah, that question feels like a trap for me personally. |
1:26.2 | It's my favorite about how we manage to get like once every month, I feel like there's a mention of whales that somehow leads to Graham saying, oh, whales. So I'm excited that we get to have that once again. Graham, you're welcome for that. Joe Lowry, is there a national team or a club team that makes you feel a similar level of antipathy or are you mostly just pretty neutral? |
1:46.3 | No, I think I'm pretty neutral, but I will happily hop on board Graham's hitting Wales train. |
1:51.1 | Like, I don't know. I need to channel that energy somewhere. Why not join forces with Graham? |
1:55.7 | And it is just kind of a bitterness, right? Graham, it's not that you just like the Welsh. |
1:59.7 | It's just that they keep going to tournaments in Scotland does something not quite the same. It's happened again. The women's heroes is happening right now and they're at that tournament and we're not, despite the fact we've got better players. How do they keep pulling this trick off? I don't understand it. You've set me off already, right within like two minutes. |
2:17.9 | Well, then I've done my job as a fill-in for Ryan Bailey, and I'm proud of myself. We've got some great list of your questions. I'm very excited for the first one. I'm very excited for all of them, but the first one, especially from Michelle Frank. Less of a question, more of a request. My 10-year-old listens and rel listens to your show every day. |
2:15.9 | I'm sorry for that, Michelle, |
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