The Great Autumn International Break of 2026™
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What is the opening banter and who are the hosts of the episode?
Are you hoping for a miracle, everybody? Welcome to the Football Ramble! The great autumn international break of 2026 begins! It's Wednesday, 23rd of September. I'm Marcus Speller, I'm Luke Moore, and I'm reducing a hunter.
Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Football Ramble. What a Wednesday. What a Wednesday. Ah, we got it back. International football's here. More on that in just a moment. I need to say thanks to Friend of the Ramble, Nathan. Big Nath, for giving us that intro line. If you want to submit an intro line for a future episode, then become a friend of the Ramble on our Patreon. You'll also get an extended edition of The Ramble today. And every single Wednesday, we affectionately call it Ramble Uncut. But the things that we can say here we all know about It's some of our best work. It's some
of our very best work.
Do you think so?
Uh hit and miss.
Yeah.
I feel liberated by it. Do you feel like you know we're in the marketplace of ideas. We are. Some of them are rogue, but we're allowed to share them.
Well
you get so much bile off your chest, don't you? It's
free it's freedom of speech, is what it is. It's freedom of speech. It's the ramble speaker's corner. It's the first amendment stuff that we that we'd like to say.
All the things you can't say anymore, we say.
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gun in your pocket? No, no, I leave them all in my bag. That's fair enough. I thought you were just pleased to see me, Marcus.
Well he is, of course. Who wouldn't be, Luke Moore? Who wouldn't be with that Tash? Now kicking off the great Autumn International Break of Twenty Tent. Is this what we
call it now, is it? The Great Autumn International Break of twenty twenty six. Who has done this? Is this you or this a producer? Original pirate material. The great Oh
they'll
look back
on this in years to come. Might. Yeah, they might do. England uh you never know. England could become unofficial world champions if they break. They could.
In our f what what did you call it?
The great or the w what did I call it? The the The Great Autumn International Break of
our Discontent.
Uh yeah, well d we've got um to kick things off of from the great autumn international break of twenty twenty six, uh we've got Azerbaijan versus Tajikistan and Gibraltar versus Sao Tome uh later today. So uh strong start. Why
why Gibraltar playing Sao Tomei? It's a friendly. Yeah, it's just a weird one. Just you know, little boys having a nice. I don't want to be snobbish. Little boys in the l Temper to Thorpe Park. Yeah, exactly. I don't wanna I don't wanna be a a snobby person talking about someone who you know who supports and is from a big in international nation.
But
like it's a long trap long trip that I
thought you'd have a bit of South Coast solidarity with these people.
Gibraltar. Yeah. Yeah is it South Coast?
Very
South Coast. Of Spain. Very, very South Coast. I get much more so. That's maybe why I don't like them.
Maybe
that's it. Yeah, no.
Intimidated by the Gibraltar's again. Yeah. And tomorrow night we've got some big hitters. Germany versus Netherlands, Portugal v Wales. England don't play until Saturday night though. So we've got a lot of squad chat until then. Uh we will preview that game, of course, on Friday. Lift
ourselves.
I'm lift I'm holding everybody up. One more
push. Could we could we, much like a lot of the England players, could we withdraw? Yeah. Is that a possibility?
Yeah.
Because a load.
Load management. No, strap on a Johnny. We're going in. There have been some fresh England call ups.
Oh, why do you only say horrible things like that when I'm on the show? Which makes me guilty by association. I listen to shows that I'm not Olin, you're relatively boring. Ah,
relatively. No,
I'm moving up. Yeah.
Moving away from absolutely. I don't like what international football does to you. Do you not? No. Again sunny delight. Why do you think people think
it's an act, but it's not.
You all f make me feel like Don Henley.
Yeah, okay. You know.
Yeah, okay. Boys of Summer have gone, I still love you.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening banter and who are the hosts of the episode?
0:00–5:12
2
Which players were added to Thomas Tuchel’s England squad and why?
5:12–12:58
3
How do the hosts evaluate Tuchel’s tactics and his World Cup performance?
12:58–20:52
4
What injuries and load‑management issues are affecting England’s key players?
20:52–26:40
5
Why is Mikel Arteta’s new contract being announced during the international break?
26:40–33:12
6
What are the hosts’ opinions on Gianni Infantino’s proposed FIFA reforms?
33:12–39:26
7
How do the presenters view the Nations League and its impact on club football?
39:26–45:19
8
What final thoughts and sign‑off messages wrap up the episode?
45:19–50:37