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

FC podcast. Hello, R Squad and welcome to Rank's F.C.

It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast.

And on the day where we've become 99 days to the start of the World Cup this summer, we thought it was about time. We started to pour some interest into the tournament. So we can start to get excited about some of these on-field narratives that are going to take the main stage this summer. My name is Jack Collins and I'll be your host there and joining me all the way from San Diego. It's the one and only Mr. Dean Jones.

Are you doing, mate? Good, mate. Yeah. Obviously, it's on my home soil, isn't it, here over in the US.

I'd like to say there's a huge buzz about it, but there's not. But nevertheless, just because it's not

spread throughout the towns of San Diego yet, The buzz is there if you love football,

isn't it? Because once you get under 100 days, it does start to become exciting and you need

to start weighing up the storylines that are going to be there. Start getting your World Cup sticker

books out. You start getting the wall charts out, probably in about

six weeks or so as the end of the season starts to approach domestically. You start to get

your betting guides. You start to make your own predictions about who's going to be the top

scorer, who's going to be the winner, who's going to be the dark horse and all those sorts of

things.

And yeah, I'm pleased that we are ready to begin the countdown here on ranks today.

We want to do a lot of coverage around the World Cup.

Some here, some will be over on the Patreon.

Please do come and join us over there.

Well, you'll get your say as well and what you want to find out about the World Cup,

what you want me and Jack to dig into, you know, particularly in America.

There isn't many obvious places to go for your football news.

So me and Jack will definitely do our best to keep you up to date with everything that we know as we try and probably manage to just drown

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