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Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly, Wales whole Belgium to become one of the

seeded nations in the World Cup qualifying playoffs. There's only one way to mark the moment,

get Ellis James on extended voice note duties. Everything sorted then in Europe,

so we'll look beyond a bun fight in South America below Brazil and Argentina.

And we've been inundated with Canadians who rightly demand some love after forcing the Mexicans

to play a football match in a tundra. We'll pay tribute to the former Guardian Football

Correspondent David Lacey. Look ahead to this weekend's Premier League and after National

League side, Stockport's barnstorming victory over Bolton, we ask, is there simply too much magic

in the FA Cup? There's criticism for music, snob, John Bruin, even more Wikipedia to discuss,

and exciting news as the part officially becomes a family show. All that plus your questions,

and that's the day's Guardian Football Weekly.

On the panel today, John Bruin, aforementioned, how are you?

I'm fine, Max, how are you?

Yeah, excellent, thank you. Ben Fischer, what have you got for us today? Anything, any gold?

I'm Max, I don't know if he's been undercooked. We'll see, then let's see.

All right, okay. It's great, it's good to sit expectations low. So, you know,

people expect nothing from you today, Ben. Johnny Lu, hello. Hey, how are you?

Yeah, I'm marvelous. Are you expecting to bring anything good to the... I mean, people listen,

it has three a week. If no one's got anything good, if everyone's expectations are low,

we could just sort of move on to Monday.

There's very much a third pod of international week vibe to this, isn't it?

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