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Football Weekly Extra: stylish Cristiano Ronaldo steers Portugal to Brazil

Today's Football Weekly Extra is fit to bursting, with AC Jimbo joined in the pod by Barry Glendenning, Rafa Honigstein and Paul MacInnes who have international and domestic business to address.

We begin by getting up to speed with all those midweek internationals. Julien Laurens relives the magic of France's World Cup volte face as they came back from the dead against Ukraine, and we marvel at Cristiano Ronaldo's hat-trick which meant Portugal qualified for Brazil 2014 at the expense of Sweden. Oh, and England weren't very good against Germany's reserves. Jimbo's paper review will have much, much more on all this - it'll be be up on Friday morning.

Then, it's back to the Premier League, which this weekend sees the Merseyside derby, Southampton travelling to Arsenal, and Stoke hosting Sunderland.

Rafa will be joining us again on Monday to bring us all the excitement of Bayern v Dortmund in the Bundesliga, and if you pester him enough Sean Ingle might come along too. See you then.

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