The Athletic. Hello, I'm Dan Bardell. And I'm Floyd Hughes. And welcome to the Athletic Football

Podcast. We're live on YouTube and Twitter ahead of Friday's World Cup draw in guitar.

We're also going to take a look at England's chances and who we think the

big contenders are going into the

tournament. We're going to be doing an excellent company. We're joined by

Jack Pitt Brook and Matt Slater to go over everything World Cup in Qatar.

And plus how about Gareth Bells, Wales, also the United States

and Canada and Mo Sala or Sardio Mona. Someone is going to miss out on going to this

year's World Cup. Yeah the big talking point for the wake and we're not, the big talking point for the week.

And we're not even the biggest talking point of the weekend, Jack, but the biggest heartwarming

thing that's come out of the international break so far, Christie and Ericsson.

I mean, he's already made a great comeback at Brentford and to see him scoring for his contractor what happened in the summer as well just excellent scenes

Yeah, it was incredible to watch that just the clip I'm sure has been shared so many times already on social media

I think with every step of Ericsson's

return to football so far it's been more and more I was going to say heartwarming

but more and more kind of enjoyable and impressive and I think everybody who remembers those

horrific scenes with Ericsson during the Euros last year will take great pride for

and great enjoyment from seeing how much Ericsson is enjoying this football again and I think everyone really looking

forward to seeing at the World Cup. Yeah, it strikes me as been quite understated with it as well.

He doesn't really want to make a fuss but what he's done he's so incredible.

There really is and he's you know fantastic returns to football with Brentford as well.

It's just a really good story isn't it I think we all agree nice nice

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