Sam's Army

PREMIER LEAGUE: thoughts on Leeds' hot start, 10-man City holding off United, Arteta whining his balls off and HULL!

MAILBAG: breaking down the ridiculous JJ Gabriel situation, first EPL manager fired, European Cinderella candidates, can Roma stay hot, Poch's USMNT roster f/t tons of exciting prospects but no Pulisic

STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

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PREMIER LEAGUE: Postmortem of Flo Balogun pulling (out) a fast one on Everton. Biggest winners and losers from the summer transfer window. Extra motivation for Newcastle and Aston Villa. Will Tottenham ever score again? Weekend preview f/t Arsenal vs Chelsea.

STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

PREMIER LEAGUE: knee-jerk reactions to week 1 results plus the highest and lowest finishing position all 20 clubs could realistically finish this season

STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets + GOAWs

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HOT TOPICS: Gianni Infantino caught with hand in the cookie jar, Mexican Federation embarrasses themselves, Mikey's audacious plan to combine CONCACAF and CONMEBOL (that gets less ridiculous the more you think about it), temperature check on Leagues Cup and which Premier League transfers we like most and least.

STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

HOT TOPICS: It's the summer silly season so, in lieu of actual soccer games, we hit some of the hot button topics and burning questions suggested by our beautiful Discord crew

HALFTIME: Ballon d'Or pop quiz

STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets + GOAWs

WORLD CUP: The boys are back to run through the final games of the phenomenal WC26, including Spain's decimation of Argentina and what the ridiculous England/France game means for the future of the 3rd place game.

HALFTIME: What If you had to guess which uncapped (or lightly capped) American will have the biggest impact on USMNT at World Cup 2030 plus Complement Corner for Gianni Infantino

REST OF WORLD: preliminary look at Premier League transfer business

STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

Rapid recap of the quarterfinals and preview of this week's semifinals, plus biggest winners and losers from WC26 thus far. Also: STOPPAGE TIME f/t Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs.

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The band is back together to discuss the highlights (TONS!) and lowlights (a few) from the group stage of World Cup 2026, f/t biggest winners, losers, surprises and disappointments so far, plus we take a look at USMNT vs Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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The lads break down the entire 48-team World Cup 2026 featuring group winners, darkhorses, who crashes out early, biggest locker room cancers (Mbappe vs Ronny), golden boot contenders, a gaggle of indy shot bets from our in-house savant plus predictions for who is gonna win this thing.

PREMIER LEAGUE: Arsenal get over the line in the most Arsenal-y way imaginable. Pep waves goodbye but timing strikes some as odd. Villa does Liverpool a huge favor. Spurs vs West Ham drunken dogfight for the ages goes down to the last day because of course it does.

HALFTIME: What If you are EFL judge, jury and executioner and Southampton (hypothetically) gets caught dead to rights spying on Middlesbrough before a Championship playoff semifinal... what punishment fits the crime?

ROUND THE WORLD: Xabi Alonso and Dear Leader take over at Chelsea and Real Madrid - who lasts longer and is there any way Mourinho's stint ends well? Also, extra spicy MLS minute (and a half)

STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs