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Hello listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast. How are you doing today? I hope you're doing well.

So this is a bonus episode and it's all about the FIFA World Cup, 2026. This is a preview of the upcoming football World Cup and a kind of football mega ramble.

I'll be talking about football and the World Cup for the,

well, for the foreseeable future for however long this takes. There's a PDF available for this

bonus episode, which you will find links in the description. And we're going to start with a

disclaimer, okay? This is a bonus midweek episode all about the Football World Cup 2026. If you are not a football

fan, please feel free to skip this episode. Okay. I think this will be the first in a short series of

bonus episodes over the next few weeks about the World Cup, which I will upload in addition to the normal

episodes that you get from me. So these World Cup episodes are in addition to the normal run of this

podcast. So you'll keep getting normal episodes every Monday, but then sometimes I'll upload

another bonus episode during the World Cup and maybe another one at the end.

So we might end up with two, three, possibly four World Cup episodes, but bonus episodes in addition to your normal podcast content.

I love the World Cup and I like to do World Cup episodes when the tournament is happening.

Long-term listeners might remember all the different World Cups that I've covered on this podcast in the past.

About football, I don't actually support a local team in England, but I've always been most excited about World Cup football.

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