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

Hello, RS squad, and welcome to Ranks FC.

It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast.

We can say that again now that Dean is back in the United States of America.

My name is Jack Collins and I'll be your host. And joining me across water all the way from Zandiero. It is Mr. Dean Jones. How you doing, mate? Yeah, very good, very good indeed.

Yeah, just trying to get my head around today's episode really, mate. This is chaos. The world of

European football is chaos. There's of European football is chaos.

There's so much to talk about.

You're going to be getting a lot of information across the next hour.

So make sure you've got some brain capacity to take it all in.

Yeah, bucket up.

Seriously.

There's a lot of stuff that's happening across all the leagues.

And we're going to try and just get you up to date with it all so you know what you've got

to be looking out for, which leagues you might want to start watching if you're not already.

And also some shocks, I think, that might be in store and some teams not ending the season

with the rewards that perhaps

they were expecting. I think the reason I wanted to do this, and the episode is basically,

you know, a little walk around Europe and kind of the most exciting things that are still

happening. We're going to talk about kind of the top of the tables in parts one and two and in

part three. I'm going to take a little look at the relegation battles, which still have some real intrigue going on in them as well.

And we're going to mostly stick to the big five or the big seven at the very least leagues

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