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Football Ramble

Our 2026 World Cup Predictions

10 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What are the hosts' initial thoughts on the World Cup Eve?

0.031 - 8.19 Unknown

You're a good soldier choosing your battles everybody. Welcome to the Football Ramble. It's World Cup Eve because it's Wednesday 10th of June.

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8.27 - 11.838 Luke Moore

I'm Marcus Speller. I'm Luke Moore. I'm Jim Campbell. And I'm Pete Donaldson.

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24.23 - 50.773 Marcus Speller

Ah, it's the football ramble. Oh, it's World Cup Eve. So that means after this show, to give everyone a little insight, all of us get into a room. We have a lot of candles around the bones of Zhao Havilland. Yes. And we pray. around them with Jules Rimet masks on and then Pete commences the address. Yeah. Do you want to tell people a bit about the World Cup address?

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50.793 - 52.316 Marcus Speller

The kind of seance World Cup address you do?

52.336 - 60.649 Jim Campbell

Well, it's not until Teixeira kind of... Riccardo Teixeira. Riccardo Teixeira ramps up his little mobility scooter and he does a circle around the pentagram.

60.91 - 80.602 Marcus Speller

Yeah, touching each of us on the shoulder with his magnificent appendage. LAUGHTER Which has got a tiny little Mexican hat on the end of it. Because Mexico is the best World Cup country. And a tribute to Ochoa. And then we all turn about 15 people away at the border and then get on with our day. Covered in locusts.

80.963 - 85.031 Unknown

Thanks to friend of the ram, Shakira, for giving us that intro line. If you want to submit an intro line.

85.391 - 98.605 Marcus Speller

Nice to hear from her. For a future episode. She's not involved in the Jo Havilland seance. No. She's not involved. Not after last time. But we do shout whenever, wherever. Let's just say Jo Havilland's hip bones do lie and leave it at that.

Chapter 2: What predictions do the hosts have for the World Cup winners?

374.6 - 381.468 Unknown

Something ludicrous, and obviously the much-celebrated category, notable mad shit.

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382.029 - 386.594 Marcus Speller

And we've got total goals and total cards as well, right? We do have total goals. We always do that, just for a bit of fun at the end.

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386.614 - 387.075 Unknown

Yeah, exactly.

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387.095 - 390.379 Marcus Speller

Okay, so it's a combination of things that you want to take seriously and things you don't want to take seriously.

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391.22 - 397.328 Unknown

So Luke Moore, we're going to start with you, and we're going to start with winners. I don't want you to give a prediction. I want you to tell the world who's going to win this World Cup.

397.348 - 420.583 Marcus Speller

Well, as you know, I've got my own supercomputer. It's up there. yeah yeah god what a care memory yeah he's always cracking and uh these are big hidden folders it'd be ruinous if people found them it'd be ruinous if I found them again yeah yeah yeah he's got an RFK junior brain worm in there VPN thinks he's in the US yeah And yeah, a lot of pornography.

421.965 - 442.338 Marcus Speller

Winners I've gone for, it's actually quite a disappointing start for everyone after the chat I've given all year. I've put my money where my mouth is and gone for France. I can't hear what you're saying for all that money. I was doing the predictions as Michael Aliso's goal went in against Northern Ireland and that kind of pushed me over the edge towards France.

442.358 - 444.201 Unknown

I did my predictions before that goal went in.

444.181 - 460.882 Marcus Speller

I don't think Argentina will defend it. I like Spain. To me, it was a toss-up between France and Spain and they went for France. That's my story. I agree with what Jim said yesterday. The squad is just frightening. Everywhere you look, it's frightening. And that's even if you just put to one side the fact that Malo Gusto's in there. Everyone else is brilliant.

Chapter 3: Who do the hosts identify as potential surprise packages in the tournament?

2196.707 - 2200.333 Marcus Speller

Or a dog. A dog as well. Good God. Marcus, go on.

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2200.373 - 2201.395 Unknown

She needs a better agent.

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2201.415 - 2208.166 Marcus Speller

I went for, I think, who... The most famous woman in the world needs a better agent. Needs a better agent. Yeah. Marcus, carry on.

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2208.847 - 2213.252 Unknown

I went for the most famous person I could think of, and I've gone for Dwayne The Rock Johnson.

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2213.472 - 2215.555 Jim Campbell

Nice. I think I went for The Rock last time.

2215.595 - 2215.875 Unknown

Did you?

2216.255 - 2218.618 Jim Campbell

Yeah. I reckon we've all gone quite safe.

2218.698 - 2221.441 Unknown

I think there's a suggestion he could be the most famous man on the planet.

2221.461 - 2223.463 Jim Campbell

Trump is. And he needs the PR, The Rock.

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