Football Ramble

France had a beautiful day as they eased past Morocco to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup. Can anyone stop them? Pete, Luke and David reflect on last night’s football on today’s Ramble.Elsewhere, Dan Burn has been doing some big, beautiful backflips. Could owning sheep help teams win the World Cup? Plus, Luke and David question whether Pete really owns a chainsaw.Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup.No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Egypt were on the cusp of an era-defining result, but then… Argentina gonna Argentina. Marcus, Luke and Vish try to work out if the good guys won that outrageous match out in ATL or if THE ENTIRE TOURNAMENT IS MASSIVELY RIGGED.In less goal-happy matters, Charlie lost out to the Chocolate Factory and so Switzerland’s quest to stink out the latter stages continues. Plus, some Mariah Carey-based mind games from Thomas Tuchel leave Tony Baz utterly bemused.Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup.No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Azteca, one of football's mystic powers, has been conquered by Thomas Tuchel and his merry band of fine England men.Today, Marcus, Luke and Vish are here alongside their giddy aunts to relive last night’s action. It was a joyous evening where Jude Bellingham went full Zinedine Zidane and Harry Kane went full Darren Cann. Jump in, the water’s warm.Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup.No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paraguay put in a generational display of housery in their loss to France last night. It was one for real anarchists to enjoy (aka Pete Donaldson).Marcus, Vish and Pete wonder whether France should be concerned at all after this game. We also say goodbye to our old friend Jesse Marsch after Canada's loss to Morocco. Plus, Donny brings a very special gift for the lads to enjoy.Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup.No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For our collective sins, Cristiano Ronaldo and his Portugal bros have made it to the round of 16. Cheers Snicko.Luke tells Marcus and Pete why he simply cannot fathom the idea that Croatia's Igor Matanović touched the ball on its way to Joško Gvardiol. Plus, a much-needed update on Danny Murphy's cat, Pete shouts at Andy Brassell, and an in-depth analysis of streakers.Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup.No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marcus, Jim and Pete were live on YouTube to preview England's clash with the Good Doctor. But will it be just the medicine Thomas Tuchel and his men need for the knockouts?We discuss the right back situation as Reece James and Jarrell Quansah are sidelined, while there's plenty of debate about the situation on the flanks because as England fans we can simply never be content. Come join us for your quickfire preview before KO!Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here.Join us on our next YouTube live stream here!Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, and TikTok, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup.No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’ve had our first major scalp! Julian Nagelsmann’s German slugs have been sent Heim at the hands of plucky old Paraguay. Pete, Luke and David are here to celebrate.Elsewhere, things get even worse for the Germans as their infamous guru is proved wrong after Morocco saw off the Netherlands. Plus, Brazil spoiled all the fun with that late goal to beat Japan.THE FOOTBALL RAMBLE X ADMIRAL HOME STRIP IS BACK ON SALE! GET YOURS HERE.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup.No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marcus, Luke and Jim jump back on the pod for a big ol' easay after England's underwhelming meander / clinical, professional job (delete as you see fit). Still, at least Jude Bellingham proved he remains the absolute business!Elsewhere, Croatia qualified for the knockouts (because of course they did), that little Argentine wizard was at it again and Algeria & Austria abandoned any sort of gentlemen's agreement and played out a riotous slugfest. That means we can look ahead to the knockouts! Which start in about seven hours' time...Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup.No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wouldn't you bloomin' believe it, Cape Verde have qualified for the knockouts! Delight for the Cape, but despair for Marcelo Bielsa's Uruguay who head home. Can we take one of their four stars away from them for that?Marcus, Pete & Jim are here to revel in the Cape Verdean joy. Plus, a Mexican fan sticks his head in a candyfloss machine and Channing Tatum pops up at the Norway match, because why the hell not?GET TICKETS FOR TONIGHT'S RAMBLE WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY HERE!Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup.No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh, Scotland… Steve Clarke and his men have been doomed to a painful wait in third-place purgatory. Today, Marcus, Luke and Jim review where it all went wrong for Scotland against Brazil.Elsewhere, we share our thanks to the Ghanaian witch doctor, aka Nick Hewer, for lifting the curse he placed on Harry Kane. Plus, Mexico beat Czech Republic and Switzerland beat Canada. However, the lads explain why it isn’t all bad for Jesse Marsch and America’s hat.Get your Ramble World Cup Watch Party tickets HERE!Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup.No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

England are back in action tonight! After putting those Croatian slugs to the sword, it's Ghana's turn to face the wrath of Tommy Tuchel's boys.Marcus and Luke are here (lamppost flag in hand) to preview the big one. What's England's best centre-back partnership? Is Declan Rice actually fit? And is it coincidental that Luke's very own Gosport is the hottest place in the UK today? Makes you think.GET TICKETS FOR THE NEXT RAMBLE WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY HERE!Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup.No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More superhero stuff from The Cape! Pete, Vish and Jim carnival into the studio off the back of another miraculous Cape Verde performance, which could help secure their passage to the next round. Yes, you read that right.Elsewhere, Spain dish out a particularly Spanish brand of gubbing, bucking our new theory that key Schengen Area protagonists continue to disappoint this World Cup. Plus: Egypt end their 100-year wait for a win, more DOGSO criminals and an outrageous Pete prediction comes off - and yet somehow he won’t admit it.THERE ARE STILL A FEW TICKETS FOR TOMORROW'S RAMBLE WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY HERE!Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup.No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Teams are going out? Already?! Here we were thinking there was a round of 48 after this, but Marcus, David and Jim get in the studio to react to Haiti and Turkey's exits. For the latter, it was in especially dismal, dare we say England-like fashion...Elsewhere, did Scotland respect Morocco too much? The US and Mauricio Pochettino's hair continue to impress with another victory which seals their spot in the knockouts. And last but certainly not least, there's an urgent UK burger law clarification from two chefs. Don't say we don't educate you.GET TICKETS FOR THE NEXT RAMBLE WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY HERE!Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup.No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.