World Cup Draw Reaction as England draw Croatia & Scotland face Brazil

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🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Kelly Cates and a range of guests react to the World Cup draw!

Dion Dublin, Ian Dennis & Don Hutchinson reflect on England drawing Croatia, Ghana & Panama, before we hear from manager Thomas Tuchel from Washington.

Pat Nevin joins the pod to discuss Scotland drawing Brazil, Morocco & Haiti, as does Scotland striker Lyndon Dykes! We then hear from Scotland boss Steve Clarke.

Julien Laurens joins the pod to look at France's potential 'Group of Death', plus how the rest of Europe's top nations may fair. We hear from Cape Verde player Roberto Lopes as they head to the World Cup for the first time, and John Bennett provides insight into the rest of Africa's nations, plus Oceania too. Tim Vickery joins us as we delve deep into Brazil, Argentina and the rest of South America.

And finally we hear from correspondent John Murray, having attended a delayed, but bonkers World Cup draw!

Timecodes:

06:26 England group reaction 13:10 Thomas Tuchel interview 16:55 Scotland group reaction 20:55 Lyndon Dykes joins the pod 28:33 Steve Clarke interview 31:20 The rest of Europe 43:30 Cape Verde's Lopes joins the pod 48:43 The rest of Africa & Oceania too 50:26 South America chat 55:40 John Murray rounds up the draw

Commentaries this weekend:

Saturday 6th December PREMIER LEAGUE: Bournemouth v Chelsea 1500 KO - 5 LIVE PREMIER LEAGUE: Spurs v Brentford 1500 KO - SPORTS EXTRA 3 PREMIER LEAGUE: Leeds v Liverpool 1730 KO - 5 LIVE FA CUP: Chelmsford City v West-super-Mare 1500 KO - SPORTS EXTRA 2 FA CUP: Sutton United v Shrewsbury 1715 KO - SPORTS EXTRA 3 FA CUP: Chesterfield v Doncaster Rovers 1930 KO - SPORTS EXTRA 3 WSL: Arsenal v Liverpool 1200 KO - SPORTS EXTRA 3

Sunday 7th December PREMIER LEAGUE: Brighton v West Ham 1400 KO - SPORTS EXTRA PREMIER LEAGUE: Fulham v Crystal Palace 1630 KO - 5 LIVE FA CUP: Slough Town v Macclesfield 1230 KO - SPORTS EXTRA 3 FA CUP: Gateshead v Walsall 1530 KO - SPORTS EXTRA 3 FA CUP: Blackpool v Carlisle United 1730 KO - SPORTS EXTRA

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0:36.5	This is the Football Daily podcast with Kelly Cates.
0:41.2	Hello and welcome to a special Football Daily podcast reacting to the World Cup draw.
0:46.0	We'll be joined by a whole host of guests, including European football expert Julian Laurent,
0:50.9	South American expert Tim Vickory, and Five Lives at Ian Dennis, who's been watching all the action coming out of Washington for Five Live.
0:57.6	And you'll join us shortly as we go through each group.
1:00.0	We are now 188 days away from the 23rd edition of the FIFA World Cup, 96 years after the inaugural event held in Uruguay in 1930.
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1:14.1	On July the 19th, we are one step closer to finding out we know phase one of the World Cup.
1:21.2	There are 104 matches ahead.
1:23.6	48 teams.
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