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Music Hello and welcome to the Football for Kids podcast with me, Darren Reese.

In this episode, we're going to be talking about football boots.

But before we do so, I've had lots and lots of emails and messages this week, so I'm going to read a couple of those out.

Hello, and a big shout out to Brodie age six and kieran age nine who are huge fans and latent orange season ticket holders hello to you too

and hello to everyone in your house i hope that you enjoy the podcast and that you're looking

forward to Christmas.

I've had a very nice message from James Hughes who says,

Hello, Darren, I really love your podcast. Thank you.

Please may you do an episode about Christian Erickson.

My favourite episode so far has been England versus France.

I play for my local football team, Bollington United Stars.

Please can you say hello to my teammates?

Archie, Theo, George, Leo,

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