Arsenal start strong and Man Utd get mauled by The Tigers | Weekend Review

**Ryan Bailey** (0:20)
Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and the glorious return of the weekend review! Man Utd went to Hollenbach!

**Ryan Bailey** (0:28)
Carrick's at the wheel, but is he on the right track?

**Ryan Bailey** (0:31)
Arsenal's start looked pretty flawless, and they proved you don't need a Vinnie when you've got a dour-less Liverpool.

**Ryan Bailey** (0:37)
We're taking for a bit of a ride by a new look, energetic Newcastle side.

**Ryan Bailey** (0:42)
And Tottenham may have won the window and blown through their spending cap, but on the field, they still look a bit rubbish.

**Ryan Bailey** (0:49)
And on the continent, Jose Mourinho's side got off to a winning start, but do they have what it takes to set themselves apart?

**Ryan Bailey** (0:57)
My name's Ryan Bailey, let's go with the Weekend Review.

**Ryan Bailey** (1:00)
Taylor Ropkos here, hi Taylor, how are you?

**Taylor Rockwell** (1:02)
I'm doing well, a standard weekend. We all saw this coming, whole city terrible. Ipswich already relegated, Manchester United and Spurs, both gonna challenge for the title. Obviously, that's how this weekend played out. We all saw this coming.

**Ryan Bailey** (1:14)
All went to form, and any experts who did previews all of last week have been made to look amazing.

**Taylor Rockwell** (1:21)
I know it's week one. I know we're not supposed to overreact. I'm still overreacting.
This weekend was just like, oh, you think you know things, do you? Well, you know nothing. And how dare you forever even presuming to presume that you know something?

**Ryan Bailey** (1:33)
OK, speaking of that, Graham Robson's here. Hello, Graham. How are you?

**Graham Ruffin** (1:36)
Hello, Ryan Bailey. What a way to lead me into this episode. However, I am now clearer than ever before that Hull City are the unidentified outside title challenger that I tipped on Friday's episode, our predictions episode. Someone is going to do a Leicester City or threaten a Leicester City. It's Hull. I know it's Hull now. All in McBurney, the MKM Stadium atmosphere. I've seen it. I've seen it with this tiny little pitch that Taylor messaged me about to complain about before at half time saying, Rashid is back. Rashid apparently was back. I didn't really see it in the second half. It was a whole thing.
But yes, excited to talk about the Premier League being back, European League's being back. I missed it. The routine feels good to be back in the routine.

**Ryan Bailey** (2:19)
It definitely does, yeah. Man Utd had nice kits at least. Maybe we'll touch on that a bit later as well. Taylor's not sure on that one, but Joe Lowry's here. Hi Joe, how are you?

**Joseph Lowery** (2:28)
Hey, I'm great, man. It's no green and white QR code barcode kit from ATS United, but it'll do in the meantime. Graham has really unlocked the secret of just soccer punditry. You make all these observations about all these teams and you sort of give assessments of how you think they're gonna do. You make predictions of the top five, et cetera, et cetera. And then at the very end, the last thing you say before the season starts is that, oh, well, maybe there'll be a Leicester City. All bases cover. Truly, Graham covered every single base. If the big teams win it, well, Graham called that. If Leicester City equivalent wins it, well, Graham called that too. Now, I just, I bow before the presence of a soccer pundit.

**Taylor Rockwell** (3:00)
Just big brain, Graham.

**Joseph Lowery** (3:01)
Absolutely big brain.

**Graham Ruffin** (3:03)
I've figured it out. There used to be people back in the day in Twitter, like ITK accounts, that would tweet random stuff out and then delete things that weren't applicable.

**Ryan Bailey** (3:10)
ITK accounts?

**Graham Ruffin** (3:11)
Yeah, and the no accounts. Oh, Joe. Young, young Joe. That feels like a previous year of getting it.

**Ryan Bailey** (3:18)
Joe wasn't ITK about ITK. Wow.

**Joseph Lowery** (3:20)
I've never heard a more MySpace sounding term in my life. That's all I'm saying.

**Graham Ruffin** (3:24)
Yeah, and Andy Calle made a whole career for himself out of it, dragged himself out of KFC using that method.

**Ryan Bailey** (3:30)
I saw them apologizing to Fabrizio Romano on the, on the, so let's not go down that road. Let's talk about soccer instead. Plenty to talk about on this episode. Lots of Premier League to get to. We have a Patreon, by the way, patreon.com/totalsoccershow.
All of the goodness we don't get to on this episode, we'll get to on our bonus feed, including but not limited to a big old deep dive on Tottenham and their defeat at the hands of Brentford this weekend. We'll go a bit deeper on that one. On the bonus feed, patreon.com/totalsoccershow. Thank you to everybody who supports us there. We love you. Before we get to the action, Graham, you've got some kind of campaign trying to get more people to come to Scotland. Can you tell us about it?