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

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How you doing, mate? I'm good. I'm good. We're in preseason now, aren't we?

I think we can fundamentally say we're in preseason. But most European calendar anyway.

I didn't work out if we've been in the 2025-26 campaign or not during the Cup World Cup.

Because some people say we are, some people say we're not. But now... It depends where your perspective is. Exactly. You want that to be the first trophy of next year? Do you want it to be the last one or last year? I don't know. It depends who you are, I suppose. Chabby Alonzo was very, very aggressively of the opinion that it was

the last trophy of 25 and why wouldn't he be? Exactly, yeah, exactly that. But Mariska might be

like, look, we've already got one trophy under our belts this season, let's go. So yeah, now we are

into preseason and we'll see where this takes us.

But yeah, I think in things we love, we're going to talk about the final of the Club World Cup, aren't we?

And even as two Fulham fans, we're willing to, yeah, we're willing to give them some flowers here, Chelsea.

Give Chelsea their June.

What they've been able to achieve, yeah.

Well, they deserve here because they deserve immense props for this performance.

And their performance, I think, throughout most of the Club World Cup,

the fact that they've used this as a learning curve,

as something to grow into and come out the end of it

in a space where they've been able to put on such a dominant performance, not necessarily in

terms of the stats, not in terms of possession, not in terms of shots, but in terms of their felt

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