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

It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast.

My name's Jack Collins, and I will be your host there.

And joining me from across the water all the way from San Diego.

It's Mr. Dean Jones.

How you doing, mate?

Hello, mate.

Yeah, I'm good.

I'm good.

Yeah, ready to crack on with the new football season, mate, which is why we're doing this episode today. It's not quite hot takes. I wouldn't go as far as that. Although a couple of them might be teetering on being hot takes. but bold predictions is kind of how I wanted to redress it once I started to make my assessments of what I was going to say on here today. I mean, a hot take would be like,

you know, something outlandish, wouldn't it? Like Crystal Palace with the treble. So it's not

like that. But it's, I think especially my

biggest claim is going to be quite a big one today. So I'm interested and it isn't trolling.

I'm not trying to troll anyone today with the ones that I come up with. It's not to wind

anyone up. But obviously we can't just be like, I think Liverpool win the league. It's not

going to be that. So I'm looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to what you've got to say.

How are you doing? I'm good. I'm good. I would say warm takes is probably how I would describe it.

Slightly warmer takes than perhaps usual. I'm good. I've been at a shoot all day.

It's been lovely.

There's been some really interesting characters around,

you know,

Gareth A. Davis, boxing commentator, Rory DeLap,

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