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Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine.

And today I'm delighted to be joined by JJ Ball.

Good evening.

Ruben Pender.

Hello.

And ah, gooden tag. It's Herr Stafford Bloor.

Howe gets? Hello. Good nightmitage. He whispered it so like a sultry whisper there, wasn't it? All the way from Germany, Seb, joins us. John's on holiday today. But don't worry, because we've got other baldie with glasses.

And I'm so happy that you're here. We talked about so many serf adjacent things today, but as a starting point, we talked about the US men's

national team and whether or not, you know, how good they're going to be in the, you know what

I'm saying, because it's, you get what I'm saying?

In the World Cup there, over there, over there.

You know what I mean?

Let's just, you know, you're going to want to wait for that one because it's, it's, it gets spicy.

Now, what else is there?

There's, oh, what is a nation's footballing identity?

We talked about that. We didn't answer the question,

but we did try to talk about that.

And also we heard what Thomas Tuchel thought about that as well.

And what Thomas Tuchel thought about Gareth, Southgate, England,

for which I will never forgive him.

Other than that, we talked about positive affirmations.

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