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

Hello, R Squad and welcome to Ranks FC.

It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast back for another week.

My name's Jack Collins and I'll be your host there. And joining me across the water all the way from San Diego is Mr Dean Jones. How you doing, mate? I'm good, mate. Yeah, we speak to a lot to each other these days, don't we? We've been doing pods and pods and pods over the last couple of days. So we've seen a lot of each other, and that's very good because it means we're still going, mate. So let's keep this going for another five years, right?

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. The omens are good. We recorded a podcast exclusively on the

classical at the weekend where Real Madrid beat Barcelona to one. That's on our patron,

as is our postbox. We work through all the big stories from the Premier League. There's also Princess Pata over there where I've talked through a lot of the other big stories in Europe that we were asked about.

So we'd love you to come and join us over on the Patreon.

Today we're going to be talking about some surprise packages, which have emerged over the start of the season from the Premier League through

Serea and Bundesliga. We're going to talk a little bit about La Liga and Liga as well

because there's an exciting storylines going on. They're all surprise packages in different ways,

we should point out. But before we get to that, I think it is worth us looking back, doing a little

bit of things we love, Dean. We haven't done one for a

couple of weeks and having a little bit of a chat about the classical, which did dominate the

headlines at the weekend. Yeah, it was a thing I loved. Like it was a crazy game and it was a

throwback game and it really makes us now look forward to the next class classical, which currently is scheduled for May,

but I'm hoping we do get one before that date.

I'm pretty sure we will.

But yeah, it was, obviously we went over this in the Patreon,

but for all of the thousands of you that aren't on the Patreon,

why aren't you there?

But okay, we'll do it all over again.

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