Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our preview of World Cup Group F, which consists of the Netherlands, Japan, Sweden and Tunisia.

Let's get straight to it.

My name's Ryan Bailey.

Joining me today, it's Mr. Taylor Rockco.

Hi, Taylor.

How you doing?

Hi. I think that's how you say hello in

Swedish. I am apprehensive today to preview Sweden because I know we have at least one

listener in the Discord who is from Sweden, has Swedish loyalties and will correct

pronunciation and everything else I get wrong. So I look forward to hearing from Hammerby

in the Discord about my Sweden preview, which is hopefully comprehensive and fair and also critical at the same time. What about your pronunciation of Potter though, Taylor? Potter. You can do it in the Ray Fein's voice. Porter? Porter. Ah, already off to a bad start. First hurdle. And it's... Oh, I can't even say the, the version of Graham that Graham doesn't like anymore. Graham? No. Graham? Graham. They're all the exact same. That's what they don't want you to know. All right. We're off to a great start with pronunciation. You know, just look at the walls of an IKEA. You'll get plenty of a Swedish language there. That's my tip for you. It's hard to say Graham Potter's name with emphasis without getting a lot of, sort of, you know, plosives on the mic as well. So we'll have to hold back on that one during this episode, but we won't hold back on Mr. Joe Lowry, who's going to be talking all about Japan. Hi, Joe. conichua to you, Ryan, first of all, and second of all, on the Graham Potter conversation, I was editing one of our previews from earlier in the week, and I got a notification on my Mac from my podcast app. I listened to NPR up first quite a bit to get some concept of what's going on in the world, and the episode title was, can Graham Platner survive another controversy in my soccer pill brain, read it as Graham Potter and thought, what did he do now? And how is it big enough that it's on NPR at first? Anyway, I'm just broken, I think is the conclusion there, absolutely broken, shattered, in fact. Bless you, Joe. Graham Potter's got to be one of the least controversial coaches out there, I imagine.

For sure. Yeah.

For sure.

Yeah, no, none of it made sense, Ryan.

I'm not trying to explain this away other than I'm just, I'm beyond repair, frankly. Excellent stuff. Graham Ruffman's here, another Graham. Who's going to be talking about the Netherlands? Smoking a pancake to you, Graham. Yeah, Ryan, I was going to ask you how gutted are you that I got the Netherlands to preview in this group?

How and when are you going to ask you, how gutted are you that I got the Netherlands to preview

in this group?

How and when are you going to do your Michael King quote about the Dutch? I'm sure you'll squeeze it in somewhere. Yeah, that's probably the answer. I was hoping you would. No, I can't. No one can live up to the impression, Ryan, that you've got in your arsenal. Well, maybe we'll hear from Nigel Powers later on in this episode.

Maybe we won't.

Who's to say?

I don't know.

I don't know, Graham. got in your arsenal. Well, maybe we'll hear from Nigel Powers later on in this episode.

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