I'm Ali Maxwell and along with George Ehrlich and David Walker from Football Cliques.

We've launched a new show called The England Pod and we've just come to the end of a fantastic few weeks, enjoying and reacting to Thomas Tuchel's first few weeks as England manager, from fairly punchy press conferences to some interesting new tactical approaches.

We don't think that supporting England is some sort of chore.

We absolutely love it.

So join us for the journey all the way to the World Cup in 2026 and beyond.

Listen to the England pod wherever you get your podcasts.

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Hello and welcome to the Football for Kids podcast with me, Darren Reese.

It's time for another super special episode with yet another of the players who will be playing in this year's soccerade match.

I hope you enjoyed the episodes I did with Diamond and Tom Grennan.

This week, you are going to be hearing from the hugely successful businessman, the mastermind,

somebody who has one of the biggest podcasts in the world, and in my opinion, the best

adults podcast in the world.

It's Dragon's Den Dragon and all-round lovely man Stephen Bartlett.

Stephen will be representing England again this year, and if you remember last year's

match, you'll know that Stephen

hit the back of a net not once, but twice. And my first question to him was this. Stephen,

last year you scored a cracker at Stanford Bridge. Straight through former world champion

boxer Tony Bellew's legs. He was furious.

Stanford Bridge erupted and it was a super special moment. You must have watched that back how many times?

Yeah, I'm going to be honest. It was just unimaginable for me. To the point that it's so unimaginable and so surreal that

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