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 Rank's FFC.

My name is Jack Collins and I will be your host today.

And yesterday, obviously, I was incredibly sad.

I'm still incredibly disappointed with the events of Tuesday night. but I am also happy today because I'm delighted to say that I'm joined once again on the microphones by the

transfer guru back in his spiritual home of San Diego. It's Mr. Dean Jones. How you doing, mate?

Hello, mate. Yeah, let's get this thing going again. Let's get the show up and running.

I'm back. Thanks for taking care of things. Thanks to Sam last week for jumping into my shoes.

Thanks to all the rank squad that have been messaging me in the meantime.

But yeah, I'm back. The show is back on the road. And the Champions League has been my reintroduction to football.

I basically didn't really watch that much football over the past week while I was in England.

I watched bits and pieces. But yeah, since landing back in America, I've watched two games today.

And yeah, obviously caught up on as much as I could what happened on Tuesday.

Yeah, absolutely.

What we're going to do here was going to work through Wednesday's action, take a game each,

go through all four games.

And then in part three, we're going to look back at yesterday's action and talk through

those games, which obviously didn't happen on Tuesday's episode.

So plenty for us to get

through. And Dean, we're going to throw things over to you to start with the early kickoff

where Newcastle made the longest trip ever for an English club in the Champions League. They

went to Carabag. It was a journey that served Chelsea badly earlier in the campaign. This is a

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