Hey, folks, before we get to today's episode of the podcast, I wanted to say first, thank you for

continuing to listen to The Total Soccer Show throughout the World Cup, even with the USM&T eliminated.

We greatly appreciate people sticking with us, but we also understand if you want to check out

other podcasts, too, listen to this one first and then check out other ones.

And what I'm going to point you to directly is the football ramble.

It is a wonderful way to get your soccer coverage, but some lighthearted fare as well, or combined, I guess, together would be a better way to put that.

Because you're getting daily coverage of this World Cup all the way through the end of the tournament covering the biggest teams, obviously focusing a lot on England.

They're in English podcast. I'm guessing you're going to get some love for England and maybe some frustration with England, depending on how things play out.

They started in 2007 at a kitchen table.

They have grown from there. They now have their own independent empire, and they are one of football's most important

independent voices.

So join them every morning for a slightly more lighthearted look at the nonsense that is

this World Cup.

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Music podcast app to subscribe and listen now. Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our review of the final two games of the 2022 World Cup round of 16.

The Spanish media won't be raising their glasses to the national team and their endless sideways passes.

Spain were a parody of themselves and their campaign hit a hitch.

The best thing about them in Qatar was Louis Enrique's Twitch.

As from Morocco, they had a pretty good ringer who shares his name with an Irish singer.

Bono had the edge and the whole team was astute.

Next time Spain, maybe you should try and shoot.

And Portugal demolished the side who speak German and French after leaving their talisman on the bench. As the goals poured in, Ronaldo clapped and pretended he was happy. What are his chances of starting the next game? I'd say they're pretty crappy. My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today, man, who was probably expecting a lot more YouTube puns in that intro. Taylor Rockwell, hello. I was really curious what it was going to be. I saw somebody tweeting about how we weren't allowed to make pro bono tweets depending on how the shootout went. I almost ced you in it but was worried that I would then reverse jinx Morocco somehow. So in some way I'm claiming credit for the Morocco win because I didn't reverse jinx them and with that in mind, Ryan, you did an excellent job, as always.

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