Hello and welcome to the Tifo Football Podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm delighted to be joined today by J.J. Bull, the Bullard.

Hey, Joe.

Hey, Seb Halford's Floor. How you doing, buddy?

Hey, Joe Devine. I've been great. Good, man. Okay. We're going to be joined a little bit later by Chris from America.

Ooh.

So we can talk about America or Iran, the US Iran. But for now, let us begin by telling you what we're going to do. I know. I called them America. I said I wasn't going to do that. In fact, I told everyone else not to do that. Try to tell Seb off earlier. Yeah, he didn't. I didn't tell him off. I tried to. What I actually said was, oh, I keep doing that. I keep saying America instead of the United States of America or the States or the US or the US men's national team or whatever. And I said, listen, I'm the one who makes the mistake more than anybody else. But as a reminder, because I'm leading the charge of idiocy here, when I bump into

the barriers of pain, I can let you know they're coming. And you've just seen me bump into a

barrier of pain right there. The sugar has kicked in. Off we go. The sugar has kicked in.

The United States of America, we'll talk about them a little bit later. We're going to start

by talking about England and Wales, but also on the docket for today. Ecuador, the sad departure of Ecuador,

but of course the exciting progression of Senegal. We'll talk about that. And Netherlands,

Qatar, which I think is less footbally and more talky. Bit circumspect. Of course, points are bad.

We'll come later as well,

and I have not had a good day.

So that's going to be fun for everybody.

But if you want to avoid ever having not a good day,

then you should probably get The Athletic.

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to avoid bad days at any cost.

But the cost is very minor.

That's one of my favorite ones you've done.

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