My name is Joe Wilkinson and I'm doing a podcast because I love football.

But what I love more is the idea of being friends with a professional footballer.

The footballer I'd like to be friends with is Patrick Bamford.

Hello Patrick, will you be my friend?

That's yet to be decided.

Okay, not what I was hoping.

My mate's a Footballer is a BBC Sound podcast with me, Patrick Bam Sanford and Joe Wilkinson.

If you weren't married who would your ideal date be?

Julie Roberts.

That was quick.

If I was here I'd have pop to pause in.

Search for My Makes Football football on BBC Sounds.

BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. I am a football fan.

I am a football fan. I am a soccer fan. I can to see it in a car with the rest of the

birds. I am a football fan. I am a soccer fan. I am a soccer fan.

I can to see maradona who is going to score in a

Yeah, the real sounds of Africa there to

once again kick off our world football phone in.

Yeah, the real sounds of Africa there.

So they're kicking off the World Football Phoning this very

special Christmas edition of the World Football Phoning. We've got the

chicken-ticker Mo Sala with us, Mehe Mizahi. Who knows where he is this time? The last time we spoke to him, he had finally made it all the way back to Algeria,

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