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Welcome to the Five Life Football Daily. This is John Murray.

I'm in Vrottswaff in Poland and we are looking ahead to Ukraine versus England,

which is England's first match of this new season and it's a season that England hope

will end in the European Championship in the final in Berlin next summer.

But first of all, England have to qualify.

They've got four wins out of four in this group so far and if they were to win this match against

Ukraine, then they would be very close to sealing qualification with room to spare.

And with me on the football daily is none other than Matthew Upsen, former England Central

Defender and also Phil McNulty, the BBC's chief football writer.

And I must say I've broadcast from some glamorous locations over the years.

This is not one of them.

We're standing in the dark outside the Tarchinsky Stadium, which is where the match is going

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