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Sam"s Army

The wild and wonderful world of soccer from an American perspective. Samuel Army and a rotating cast of fans, athletes and athlete fans discuss all the relevant goings-on from both sides of the pond. Headlines and a weekly recap plus previews and predictions with an emphasis on the Premier League and Champions League, along with the US men"s and women"s national teams, and just enough from the rest of Europe, MLS and NWSL to be dangerous. Episodes also typically feature candid interviews with

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01:00:43

Rayan Cherki - Signing of Summer? Emery or Arteta....

Sam"s Army ·

2025/12/30

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: Aston Villa keeps playing possum and Unai Emery keeps pulling all the right levers. City's Rayan Cherki making a strong push to be signing of the summer. Ruben Amorim successfully capitulates on tactics. Preview of this week's massive Arsenal vs Villa match. HALFTIME: Pop Quiz on USMNT goalscorers at World Cup 2026 ROUND THE WORLD: AFCON news and notes STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and

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41:41

Pep's (Wannabe?) Clone. Morgan Rogers' Magic. Arsenal...

Sam"s Army ·

2025/12/24

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: Enzo Maresca's master plan to generate hype as Pep 2.0 is working perfectly. Aston Villa led by Morgan Rogers are a problem. #FrankOut at Tottenham? Arsenal start feeling City's heat. Leeds may have fixed their glaring problem. HALFTIME: Pop Quiz - odds to win AFCON ROUND THE WORLD: storylines and narratives worth paying attention to at AFCON STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

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33:37

Sunderland's #PettyWars Win. Salah Strikes Back....

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2025/12/16

PREMIER LEAGUE: Arsenal fans starting to feel a little pressure. Salah responds to Slot's massive midweek UCL win (in his absence). Villa keep on keeping on. Forest architect Spurs' latest indignity. Nobody quite knows what Amorim is trying to do with United but if it produces more 4-4 draws like this week vs Bournemouth, so be it. STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets (f/t Cone of Shame) and GOAWs

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53:45

Salah vs Slot - Who's Leaving? Villa's Great Ebening....

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2025/12/09

PREMIER LEAGUE: Mo Salah goes nuclear on Arne Slot after getting benched for third straight game. Massive week for Leeds who batter Chelsea and hold Liverpool. Moises Caicedo is great missed. Aston Villa solve the puzzle that is Arsenal and make case for league's second best team. Toffees go 7th! HALFTIME: What If you quit your job and focused on eGaming - how long would it take to get a pro contract? ROUND THE WORLD: Messi's Inter Miami takes down a game Vancouver Whitecaps and what is must-watch

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01:07:08

Chelsea & Paquetá Seeing Red. Sitting Salah....

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2025/12/02

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: Chelsea impress vs Arsenal but disciplinary remains Achilles heel. United's bounce back thanks to (legitimately) bad boys. Leeds show life vs City but it's too late for moral victories. Spurs straight up stink. Arne Slot feels pressure and finally benches Salah - and it works - plus Lucas Paquetá's love for spot-fixing allegations. Villa and Brighton quietly making moves. Power Rankings. Midweek

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57:54

North London Demolition. Everton's Blue-on-Blue...

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2025/11/26

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: Arsenal trounce scared Spurs. Everton earn one of the dumbest red cards in history but somehow it is United that goes home embarrassed. Liverpool's crisis of confidence continues. Evangelos Marinakis may have saved Forest's AND West Ham's seasons. HALFTIME: What If - you are David Moyes and two of your players get into a fight on the field... how do you handle it? ROUND THE WORLD: MLS semifinals

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01:04:29

Mailbag: Time to Care About USMNT? Ronny + Donny. NLD...

Sam"s Army ·

2025/11/20

Mailbag episode: USMNT's "successful" international window full of sound and fury but signifying what? Also, what Ronny, Donny and Musk talked about at White House gala. Mikey spews more malicious lies about Sam. Alex Bono on what to watch this week in MLS playoffs. North London Daerby preview. Scotland vs Ireland - only one can stay...

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01:05:59

City/Liverpool Takeaways. Black Cats' Black Magic....

Sam"s Army ·

2025/11/11

PREMIER LEAGUE: lessons learned from City's thrashing of Liverpool, big time "prove it" week for Sunderland and Bournemouth but only one showed up, United and (especially) Tottenham both managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory HALFTIME: Pop quiz on Sunderland's title hopes ROUND THE WORLD: USMNT primer looking at notable absences and key inclusions for this week's Paraguay and Urugay friendlies STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

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01:05:29

Tottenham's Defective Stadium. Would U Rather: West...

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2025/11/04

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: getting to the bottom of Tottenham's woeful home form. Would you rather be a fan of West Ham or Nottingham Forest right now? Erling Haaland singlehandedly keeping title race alive. Sunderland's (revised) floor and ceiling this season. Previews of City/Liverpool, Spurs/United and Villa/Bournemouth. HALFTIME: What If someone is going to embarrass the podcast at Tyler's wedding this weekend, who is

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01:01:50

Haway (4th Place) Lads. Amorim's... Progress?!...

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2025/10/30

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: Amorim's United finally showing signs of progress. Sunderland keep doing the damn thing. Gravenberch-less Liverpool quickly fading from title contention. Arsenal just as quickly solidifying its nickame as the Unwatchable Unevitables. Spurs win ugly but face Chelsea at home this weekend (ruh roh). HALFTIME: What If the unthinkable happens and USMNT does not win WC26 - who we rooting for? ROUND

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56:05

MLS Playoffs Preview ft RBNY's Tim Parker + Revs'...

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2025/10/22

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy On the eve of the MLS playoffs, two of SamFam's finest -- Tim Parker of New York Red Bulls and Alex Bono of New England Revolution -- join to discuss everything that is worth knowing about this season's fight for MLS Cup.

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58:40

Liverpool in Shambles. Ripip Ange - Again. Pro/Rel...

Sam"s Army ·

2025/10/21

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: Tyler admits that Liverpool's loss to United exposed serious problems at Anfield (and potentially in his wedding plans). Forest's ill-fated Ange experiment blows up even earlier than predicted. Bournemouth and Palace high-quality slugfest. Villa drops two absolute WORLDIES right on Tottenham's face. And a preview of the weekend f/t Arsenal vs Palace (strong vs strong) and Bournemouth vs Forest

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48:55

INTERVIEW: Strike? Lockout?? USL PA's Connor Tobin...

Sam"s Army ·

2025/10/16

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy Connor Tobin, head of the USL Players Association and one-time captain of Forward Madison, sits down with Tommy and Sam to discuss where things stand in the ridiculously complicated three-way negotiations in which the players, clubs and league are trying to hammer out a new collective bargaining agreement as the December 31st deadline begins to loom larger and larger (in hopes of avoiding a possible work

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46:38

Flo Balogun & Haji Wright Impress. USMNT Recap....

Sam"s Army ·

2025/10/15

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy ROUND THE WORLD: What did we learn from USMNT's 1-1 draw with Ecuador and 2-1 win over Australia? Whose stock is up/down? Grade for Poch? Do we have a striker controversy brewing? HALFTIME: Mikey's incredible promo suddenly goes off the rails and Tyler has thots on "halftime" occurring more than halfway through the program PREMIER LEAGUE: what games are must-watch this weekend f/t a hot take prediction about

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01:14:33

Benching Salah. Caicedo Masterclass. USMNT Preview....

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2025/10/07

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: What we learned from Chelsea's win over suddenly-luckless Liverpool and what Arne Slot needs to do to get the train back on the tracks. Thomas Frank is just what Doctor Tottenham needed. Never mind Christmas, Ange may not make it to Halloween. Drama-free United?!? HALFTIME: Hot Topic - what we can and should take issue with most about FIFA's World Cup 2026 ticket sales strategy, which (hint)

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01:15:42

Palace Are Legit! Are Sunderland Legit? Villa's...

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2025/09/30

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: Late goals for Palace (vs Liverpool) and Arsenal (vs Newcastle) reshape title race. Sam angers the Tweedles and chat with a hot take on Arsenal and Liverpool. Legit-O-Meter: Palace, Bournemouth and Sunderland. The freak injury that may have just saved Aston Villa's season. HALFTIME: FIFA's Gianni Infantino is up to his old tricks again teasing a 64-team World Cup 2030 despite the fact we have

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01:03:54

Pep Parks Bus. Amorim Survives - Barely. Ballon d'Ont...

Sam"s Army ·

2025/09/23

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: people are saying Pep tacitly admitted City don't got the juice this year with his approach to Arsenal match. Amorin receives a red-carded aided stay of execution. Unai Emery may not be so lucky. Another tough matchup (in an underwhelming weekend) coming up for Arteta's lads on Sunday. HALFTIME: Mykhailo Mudryk-related Weekly What If ROUND THE WORLD: Thoughts on Ballon d'Or jumping the shark and

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01:06:13

Liverpool's Late Heroics. Villa's Epic Dry Spell. Is...

Sam"s Army ·

2025/09/16

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: Manchester Daerby postmortem, is Liverpool good or nah, Ange's first test at Forest does not go well, which club is mashing the "Panic" button hardest, what 4 managers may be gone by Christmas, Arsenal/City and Merseyside previews plus why this weekend's Chelsea game may be do-or-die for Ruben Amorim HALFTIME: MLS Cup 2025 pop quiz ROUND THE WORLD: MLS Hit-It-N-Quit-it Minute and what Champions

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51:46

Spurs Send Levy Packing. Ange Replaces Nuno....

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2025/09/11

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: grading Daniel Levy's performance at Tottenham; Ange replaces Nuno after the latter fell out with Forest owner Marinakis and weekend preview f/t Manchester Daerby (with bonus LOCK prediction on the result) HALFTIME: World Cup 2026 pop quiz ROUND THE WORLD: News and notes from World Cup qualifying in Europe, South America and Africa STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

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47:09

Instant Reaction: USMNT 2-0 Japan = WC26 TROPHY LIFT...

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2025/09/10

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy USMNT: Instant reaction to "big" win over Japan (B), thoughts on the shambolic 0-2 loss to Good Korea, and where the program goes from here (starting with what to watch for from next month's far-more-important international window with games vs Ecuador and Australia)

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