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

Hello, RankS and welcome to Champions League takeaway here on Ranks FC, the show that walks you through all the Champions League action straight after Wednesday's games have

finished.

My name's Jack Collins, and I'll be your host day and joining me across the water all the way

from San Diego.

It's Mr Dean Jones.

How you do, mate?

I'm okay, mate.

I mean, it's pretty exhausting, isn't it?

Taking all of this Champions League action in, like 36 teams playing over two days is crazy.

I mean, you look like you've just played mate um you you

you look like you've just you've just come out of the PSV game and you've forced a late

comeback you're i sense some heavy breathing a bit of sweat exhaustion um and that's just from

tapping up your notes after the game. So it's absolutely wild.

I still can't get used to it.

It's the roundups that kill me.

The roundup bit is hard.

The two games that we do in depth because, you know, we have lots of things.

And obviously you can do the Tuesday games a little bit earlier.

And obviously there is that sense of you get the two early Wednesday games done.

I can do those notes in that

gap. And then it's like, right, Dean's going to do two games. I've got to do two games. And then there's

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