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The future is open. Hello and welcome everyone to The Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell and with me is an international man who disliked the international window.

It's Ryan Bailey.

Hello, buddy.

How you doing?

Hello, Tate.

I did have a wonderful time during the international window, by the way.

I had some really good coffee the other day. I went a nice walk in the park. Went to P.F. Changs a few days ago. It was a really good international break. Very successful. Thank you for asking. I appreciate the complete lack of mention for any sort of soccer. Did you watch games? I'm assuming maybe there was a little bit of England in there. I really don't know how much you've sworn them off. I did watch games. I'm being a little bit facetious about my approach to the international break. I did watch England games. I watched the Iceland game earlier this week. I watched the Spain-Germany game. Wasn't that fun. And of course, the US games as well. So I don't know. I'm just overly cynical about this particular international window more than others, I would say, for reasons previously explained.

Which I think is fair.

But I actually, I want to kind of linger on this for a moment because I don't know if you and I have really talked England before.

And Darrell, like, Darrell would always say it was 50-50. I think if England were playing the United States, he would lean England. Like, I don't know for you, not even like are you pro-USA or pro-England, but just like sort of what is your connection to the English national team? Do you care about them all the time, only in big tournaments, sometimes in big tournaments, what would it be for you?

I do care about them all the time, and I must confess, I do care about them more than the US team,

to whom I have an affinity as well, obviously, having been a resident here for a decade.

But I have always, Taylor, and I don't know how controversial this is, I've always felt that domestic soccer far outweighs international soccer.

And this comes back to when I used to go and watch Premier League games week in, week out, when I had a season ticket.

And these players who are playing for opposite teams to my Premier League team, who I was, you know, who were enemies, who were villains, who were doing villainous things.

And then there's an international break and they changed the color of their shirt and I'm supposed to cheer for them. It didn't quite compute with me then. And I know it's a totally different situation and it's, you know, they're representing the country, blah, blah, blah. But I've always found that, you know, domestic soccer is the most important thing. It's the thing we watch the most of. It's the thing that pays the wages of all the players we watch. It is the

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