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

Hello, Rank Squad, and happy new year.

This is the first Ranked F. Episode of 2025.

And we're going to kick things off today with a couple of predictions about what we think might go down over the year ahead.

My name's Jack Collins, and we're recording this from London live on New Year's Eve, 6am,

and in San Diego on New Year's Eve Eve at 10pm.

I'm joined by the one and only Dean Jones.

How you doing, mate?

I'm fine, mate. I mean,

this is just very backwards because I'm the one that doesn't mind getting up early, because

I'm usually up early anyway, because the kids and stuff. I don't really like staying up late

anymore because I know I'm going to have to get up early in the morning. And you don't go

to about two o'clock in the morning. So for you to be up at 6 o'clock and you're not getting going on holiday or something is probably a nightmare. So yeah, we're doing this in the last day of the year

and it's probably the first time in ranks history we've ever actually done this.

We're doing things the wrong way round. That's where we are. I reckon we might have done one once

before a couple of years ago when I was on holiday in San Diego.

I've got a feeling I remember doing one like this.

We did one earlier in the year for the Patreon where I was it, but it was a little bit different

because I was in Spain.

So I was an extra hour on.

So it didn't matter quite as much.

I think it was 7.30 in the year.

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