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

Hello, Rank Squad and welcome to Ranks FC.

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

And looking ahead to the return of the Champions League.

Isn't that exciting?

My name is Jack Collins and I'll be your host today and joining me.

It's my co-host, Mr. Dean Jones. How you doing me?

Hello, mate. Yeah, I'm not too bad at all. We're back at that time, aren't we? The transfer window closed. Just getting used to the domestic football and now we've got European football

going back to. So the calendar from here out is Chocco Block.

There's been a lot of interruption to the season so far with international games and

transfer windows and all sorts.

But this is it now.

We are properly having a go at getting to the end of this season.

The final bell has rung, as Peter D jury said, and we're into the last lap.

Off we go.

Very, very exciting.

But there's been more exciting news this week, and that's that the World Cup venues were

announced at 2026.

And I thought it would be disingenuous of us not to discuss those at the start of this podcast.

It's a World Cup that both of us are looking forward to.

We know that there's a heavy American skew on the listenership of this podcast.

So we wanted to discuss a couple of our thoughts on what was going down.

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