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

Hello, Rings Squad, welcome to Ranks FC, your favourite football podcast with me, Dean Jones, and with no Jack Collins this week.

He is now a married man. Congratulations, Jack. Congratulations to Lucy, too. They've had an amazing wedding over in Portugal.

I've seen the pictures, it looked so good, and he'll be giving us the full rundown on Patreon this week when he is feeling capable of doing so. As you can imagine, Jack is a very emotional

man, and I think there were a few tears shed

in the days leading up to, on the day itself, and probably in the days after the wedding.

We did have a poem on Patreon, which I wrote and where loads of you wrote in your own comments

and best wishes to Jack and Lucy.

So I appreciate all of you for sending in those. I know that they were very grateful for them too.

But everybody who went to the wedding itself seemed like they have had an amazing time.

And I'm very sad that I wasn't able to get across to Portugal to be part of it.

But yeah, congratulations, Jack. Congratulations Lucy.

I did not want Rank Squad there to be a gap in the schedule.

We did threaten to not post a podcast episode this week because Jack isn't around and Jack's always

around. Jack's always here. I think maybe once, maybe twice there have been times when me and Sam have

been on the main pod without Jack, but it's extremely rare. And these days, if Jack's not around,

well, it doesn't happen.

Jack's always around.

This is the first time he's made an exception and not recorded on this main feed.

And we're going to allow him this one.

But I couldn't let it go.

I couldn't let there be a week when ranks did not go out.

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