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

Hello, Reg Squad and welcome to Ranks FC.

It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast.

And we're looking at the international scene today.

My name's Jack Collins and I'll be your host.

And joining me all the way from San Diego is Mr. Dean Jones. How you doing, mate? England, England, England. Here we go, mate. Let's get the

hype train going. I might be in San Diego but I'm still English just about. I'm not sure how long

you have to be here to lose your identity but a year, I think I'm still qualifying as fully fledged

Englishmen. Yeah, just about. Just about. It's probably the way I always put it out. You do,

you do lose a little bit of your, you do worry a little bit about losing your identity and being

like, oh, oh, is everyone still going to consider me English? Like, I've got getting a bit of,

I'm saying, I've started saying trash. Like, I'm got getting a bit of saying, I'm saying, I've started saying

trash. Like, do you say lying instead of Q now? Yeah, I say line instead of Q. I do. Do you call

petrol gas? I do. Yeah, mate. No one knows what you're talking about if you say the other things.

So I've just started to, hey, could I get a nice water? If I say, excuse me, could I get a water? They go, what? So I've just started to, hey, could I get an ice water? If I say, excuse me, could I get a water?

They go, what?

So I've had to say, can I get an ice water?

I don't think you need to put the accent on, but you can't say, you do.

I mean, I don't, I don't think I put on the accent quite that far, but you have to say ice water. I don't know. Like, it's really weird, mate. It's really weird how little efforts some people will put into listening to a different accent. People generally obviously love the English accent in America. And I'm not going to say it doesn't come without its privileges because it does.

And sometimes if I feel that someone isn't taking me seriously enough, I'll go proper

Queen's English mode. And I tend to get taken more seriously and get some proper respect.

But if you go to Starbucks, sometimes I just stick on a really bad American accent on it gets you a lot of gets you

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