Hello, this is international football commentator Derek Ray, and you're listening to the Ranks FC podcast.

Hello, R Squad and welcome to Champions League takeaway here on Ranked FC.

My name's Jack Collins, and I am back at the wheel of this podcast after a couple of wonderful weeks away on my honeymoon.

So thank you very much to the wonderful Mr Dean Jones, who has been holding down the thought in my absence. How are you, mate?

Oh, thank goodness you're back. Thank goodness you, back. What a disaster for everyone involved.

No, it was okay. We held the place together, I think.

It's like when your mum's coming home, you have a quick tidy up before she gets back.

I think we managed to squeeze in the podcast episodes in a relatively informed manner.

Hopefully I managed to keep them all relevant.

Obviously, I had the good one with Sam and then had a couple of my own.

So, yeah, generally, I think it went okay. I thought they were all excellent. Well, that was really nice to hear you and Sam back on the same podcast. It's a long, long time since we've heard that. It was really cool. It was really cool to be back talking to Sam because I talk on WhatsApp sometimes and stuff like that. But yeah, it was the longest was the longest we've chatted for a long time. And obviously, I don't hear, you know, sometimes I listen to the truth and stuff, but I don't hear his thoughts on everything every single week, like just generally, you know, like when we would talk here on Patreon. So there were some things that he'd talk about.

And I was like, oh, yeah, cool, yeah, that's good.

That's good.

It's very Sam Thai views.

But, yeah, well, well informed and well described.

And he seems to be doing very well.

So that was nice to see.

Yeah, he is indeed.

It's always good to have about. The truth will return next week for what it's worth with all the Champions League. We just thought we'd have a breather and make sure everything comes back in the right manner. We're in a new studio, all sorts of things happening. So the truth will be back with you next week. But there will be two Champions League takeaway episodes with you this week, the first of which,

obviously, tonight after Tuesday's games, and the second of which will actually come out on Thursday,

rather than Wednesday night due to some commitments. So that's going to be a little bit later

than usual, but there will be two episodes as ever on a Champions League week. And look, Dean,

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