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

FC podcast. Hello, Ranks Squad and welcome to Ranks FC. It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast. My name's

Jack Collins and I will be your host day. And joining me across the water is the one and only

Mr Dean Jones. How you doing, mate? And Merry Christmas.

Yeah, happy Christmas to you too. And all the listeners, happy festive season, whatever you're

celebrating over the next few days, or whether you're just chilling out, enjoying some time off,

hopefully. Yeah, everything's good, mate. I've got to say, like, we won't do a formal

things I love for today, but one of the things

I really do love Jack is the rank squad. And like half hour ago here in San Diego, I was just out

with the two kids who were obviously off school at the moment. And we were in Mission Valley shopping

more, just wandering around, kind of wasting time,

kind of getting some last minute presents. And I went to the van store, had a little walk around,

just a quick lap. And as I was walking out, one of the workers goes, sorry, are you Dean Jones?

It's like, yeah. He goes, oh, I don't miss a podcast and like started talking. And I was like, this is so cool. Like, this is what I love about this. Like, you know, we sit here every, you know, three, four times a week and chat to each other. Obviously, we see the comments on Patreon, and we've got a community there that's very close-knit, but there's a wider audience, too, that we don't necessarily hear from. Had a quick chat with this lad, which I've got his name now, so I could have given him a shout out on the pod. But it just, like, it's happened a few times. In fact, I might even have to do a San Diego meetup. It seems like this might be quite a hotspot, mate, for the pod. But yeah, it's one of those things that when it happened, Dylan's kind of like, and Reese, they were like, are you famous? I was like, oh yeah, I'm kind of a big deal, that's kind of a big deal. You had to get the quote in as well. That's the important bit. But yeah, so that really made me smile on it. It was nice to come into the pod knowing that there are people out there that genuinely don't miss the show. And he was saying hasn't missed one back to the BR days, so love it. No, that's amazing. That is such a nice little festive cheer as well for everyone. And look, it's going to be a festive episode today.

We're going to be giving out some Christmas presents.

This is going to be coming out on Christmas Eve.

So we thought we'd hand out some presents.

We'd play Santa and his elf.

Dean is slightly taller than me, so he gets to be Santa, which is a real shame. But we're going to play Santa and his elf and hand out some presents. Some are going to be more serious than others. Some are player-based. Some are things that the manager could do with. But we've got a list. And it's quite an extensive list as well, I will say, the 16 clubs

here that we've picked out, six from the Premier League, some from Italy, some from Spain,

and one each from France and Germany as well. We're going to be giving out these

presents over the course, leaving them underneath the manager's tree. So we've got plenty

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