Hello and welcome to the Total Soccer Show and an episode where we don't not answer your listener questions.

That was a double negative, but I'm double positive.

My name is Ryan Bailey.

And joining me today is a man whose club is the one in Manchester that doesn't care for the league cup, Taylor Rockwell.

Oh, I mean that, several other competitions, but yeah, that feels about right. Thanks for that, Ryan. A fun start to today's show. So League Cup, Leagues Cup as well, Taylor? Is that we adding that to the list for Mania? I mean, they probably will. They're trying, you know, they want that global brand. Maybe they'll come over and participate. I think we do need one more competitor. I think the

numbers don't quite work for the like the 16 times three groups. So maybe they do need one more.

Maybe Manchester United are going to come over and participate. Let's get that going.

2023 United in Concord. Calfe. I'd say I didn't like to see. I didn't like to see.

Amanda Matich in that game, Manchester United against West Ham, getting a little bit of a knee

into Vladimir's Whofowl's Gentleman's Lunchbox and not being punished for it at all, Taylor.

Gentleman's Lunchbox?

Wow, I have not heard that one before.

That's good work by you, Ryan.

Yeah, especially in the world of VAR. You would expect that to be pretty harshly punished and be something that players would maybe be more mindful of. But I guess Matich has no disregard for people's lunches over their lunchboxes.

Well, it was described as off the ball contact, but I thought it was quite the opposite.

Man City in the next round for West Ham. Could have been a Manchester Derby there, Taley, missed out on in the League Cup. How do you feel? I mean, I feel like maybe that was a deliberate decision, so they didn't have to go up against Man City in a Cup competition this early in the season. That's me being positive, because the other way to put it is, it's probably just more realistically that they don't care about the League Cup. And so they're focused on other competitions. And Anthony Marciol echoing that by also not caring about the game that he was playing in. Tell you what I care about. A man who informs us that 16.6% of goals in MLSC this year have come from corner kicks and set pieces. That's in his latest MLSSucker.com article. even though 87.7% of statistics are made up on the spot is Joe Lowry. Hello, Ryan. That's one of my favorite bits, the made up statistics bit. That's good work by you. Yeah, I'm the only one making up statistics to be clear. Yours were quite valid in your MLS soccer piece, we should add. It got me thinking thinking because I only think about myself, Joe, about AFC Wimbledom.

And they will describe this week in The Guardian as set piece kings.

Nine goals from set pieces so far this season.

That's more than any other team in the top four tiers of English soccer.

And when I go with my brothers to ASE Wimb Ace William, his seats are about four rows behind the bench. And every time there's a restart and there's a set piece, a corner or whatever, there's a guy who stands up and runs to the edge and he starts directing things. He's Andy Parslow, A.S.O.M.M.B.A.L.M.B.R.N., restart coach. I love it. I love it. throw-ins, free kicks and corners. And it sounds like it's working, nine goals already, Joe. Yeah, we're seeing that trend across soccer right now. Like Italy at the Euros, I don't know if you guys remember, they had a set-piece coach the national team. And there's lots of different international teams and club teams that are doing this now. and it's been happening for a little while, but it's starting to become more trendy to do that stuff and to have creative set pieces or at least emphasize set pieces more. And I think it's great for the game. Teams are always looking for little marginal advantages to create. And I think that's a great way to go about doing that. So yeah, go on Wimbledon, Ryan. Well, thank you, Joe. I was having a good day until you mentioned Italy and the Euros. Sorry. Why would you bring the energy in here? Got to keep you even. Got to keep you even, Ryan. You do indeed. And keeping our awesome, for some even, it's a man who is in dire straits now because the UK is having a CO2, a carbon dioxide shortage right now, which is affecting production of his favourite drink, iron brew.

Is this true, Gary Muthman?

Oh, it is.

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