Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast World Cup Daily.

Day 25 of World Cup 2018 is done.

It's an off day for World Cup games, but not an off day for us.

Brian Strauss joins me today and every day from Russia

through July 15th.

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Onward!

Let's bring in Brian Strauss from St. Petersburg. I am in Moscow. Brian how are you doing?

I'm okay I've been in my room all day working on a story.

Actually, that's a lie. I did go, I went to the ATM. I got some cash.

Because you don't have a credit card and can't use it.

And tomorrow, tomorrow back in action. I feel like I've been laid up. I feel like I've

been on I. R. But back in action tomorrow with some exciting pre-game press conferencing with Didier de Chomp and Roberto Martinez and

as we get ready as we get ready for the varsity semi-final which doesn't feel as varsity now like I

we that was like that was like a silly joke at the beginning when the brackets

kind of came out.

But now that Brazil is gone, now that France still hasn't blown the doors off,

and now that sort of Croatia and England have sort of

proven their metal you know they're a bit more evenly balanced now so

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