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

FC podcast. Hello, Reg Squad, and welcome to Rank's F.C.

It's your favourite football podcast coming to you directly from Dusberg in Germany, or at least one of us is.

My name is Jack Collins, and I'm out here in Germany for the Euros.

I'll be your host today.

And joining me back in London, Mr Dean Jones, our transfer guru. How you doing me?

Yeah, I'm good, mate. Yeah, we're usually the other way around. In past years, I've been the one

at the tournament and you've been the one set back at home in luxuries. You all sat there

in a hotel room, very fancy right now. How are you finding

it? How's tournament live? Because it can be tricky, mate. I often say to people, it's actually

trickier to follow the tournament when you're at the tournament than it is when you just sat

at home. Yeah, I think that it's absolutely right. There's definitely not as much sort of depth.

Obviously, being here in Germany, the commentary and all of the

fan zones and the bars, etc., is all in German. So you get that kind of different way of looking at

it. There are less times just sort of sat in front of it and being able to analyze a little bit more.

And obviously when you're around the fans and trying to get content around the grounds,

especially, there are bits of it that, you know, you have to sack off

for travel and you, you know, you can't see everything. I've done my best to catch up on everything.

So I feel like I'm across the tournament. But I think it's a very different experience. I've had a

lot of fun and look, I'm very lucky and very privileged to be out here and not trying to take away

from that. But it's definitely a different experience. And I think it's important to kind of note that.

There have been good parts and bad parts. We've spoken about them on the Patreon shows and

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