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Hi everybody. Welcome to this week's preview podcast. It's me, Al, with Sid, Kitcho, not available today, but he did guilt trip us, Sid, into recording this podcast.

Oh my, did he ever?

It's we've had some discussion. Let us know your thoughts, listeners, as to whether it makes sense to do a preview pod when there is no La Liga to preview. We've gone back and forth on this. We're doing it,

because look, we like having a chat. We like talking to you guys. But I don't know how

interested you guys are in listening when we're simply talking about a World Cup qualifier

between Spain and Georgia. A single game.

It's not even like we've got a spread of weekend games to cover.

Yeah, especially now that Sid refuses to even contemplate the Segunda

as you sort of, you know, stand on the abyss of returning to it quite quite soon.

That's the thing.

I want to be allowed one year of ignoring it before I'm inevitably

thrust. You are a loud one. Thrust back into it. Do you know what? Actually, there's a slight lie there. Shall I admit what I did last night? Go on. I looked at the Sigourne of Fictions and thought, I wonder if there's anything I could go to this weekend. Oh, you miss it. Admit it. You miss it Terably.

Tonight,

Vidalith against

Las Palmas

tonight,

I was really

tempted to

I thought,

I could just get

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