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

It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast back for another week and back with a classic of the genre.

I'm going to be ranking some breakout stars across the Premier League and Europe as a whole

over the season so far. My name is Jack Collins and I'll be your host today and joining me

across the water all the way from San Diego. It's Mr. Dean Jones. How you doing, mate? Yeah, I'm good.

I'm good. Had a big win, didn't I? Sunday night, the old SDFC. You did. You did so much so that it knocked

you out for a day. That's how much you were celebrating. Yeah, the poor old patrons were waiting for

their Monday drop and it just ended up being, well, you still filled in. You still did a podcast

for them. But yeah, the normal pod content wasn't there because I was ill. It wasn't a hangover,

though. I'd picked up a bug from Dylan. Yeah, I don't drink enough to get a hangover these

days. But yeah, I did go to San Diego FCs for Neil win over Portland on Sunday. And it was a lot

of fun. What's not fun, Jack, is like how early I have to get to the games. Like, because the supporters section is all standing.

It's like safe standing. So there are seats, but they're all locked.

But they're never all locked. There's always a few that are loose.

And Reese needs a seat that folds down so we can stand on it so we can actually see.

And so the gates

open two hours before. And now that the end is so busy, so early, because people were

getting in there to get their spot, were actually having to get in there two hours before to

make sure that he can find a seat that's loose that knocks down and he can stand on it.

And he pretty much knows the ones to target.

And he always seems to nail it.

But, yeah, so went to tailgate.

...