Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm delighted now to be joined by Alex Stewart.

Good evening, Joe. Good evening, Alex. And of course, JJ Ball the Bullet. Hello there.

Hello, Joe. How are you? I'm really good. That's good. We're going to talk about lots of exciting football today.

Apologies have come from abroad, from Seb Stafford Bloor, who is caught in a hot air balloon, JJ.

Yes. Interesting choice of transportation. He said he wanted to go up in a hot air balloon.

He said he wanted to travel. Go far and wide, high and up, he said.

Sure.

And I thought it was a strange sentence then.

We're going to talk about England today, who smashed Ukraine 4-0, lots of exciting goals and balls to talk about there.

And of course, we're also going to talk about the Czech Republic one to Denmark a little bit later,

creating a

semi-final draw between Denmark and England, which we will also approach. But if you like to

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