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28:01I think what he was really doing was saying, you know, go away, you're not the only ones. And he said, well, you know, lots of people could be interested in Julian. Arsenal could be interested in him. Barcelona could be interested in him. PSG could be interested in him. And now you think, actually, maybe he really was naming the three clubs. Avoiding your unfinished home projects because you're not sure where to start? Thumbtack knows homes, so you don't have to. Don't know the difference between matte paint finish and satin? Or what that clunking sound from your dryer is? With Thumbtack, you don't have to be a home pro.

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29:07Call 1-800-GRAINGER, click grainger.com, or just stop by. Meanwhile, this week, we've got the Champions League final at the weekend, but the very much appetizer to that is the conference final between Crystal Palace and Casey's former side, Raya Veacana. Who would have thought, Casey, when you were playing for Raya, that they'd end up in a European final? We got to a quarterfinal. European final. Yes. Well, if you keep adding more and more finals, eventually you're going to get there. Don't dilute the success of Raya. Well, you dilute the competition. how is that up no it's it's excellent for rio and it's excellent for crystal palace you know two sides that you wouldn't you know come straight to your mind that they're going to be in a european competition final so to give the the fans that opportunity i think it's cool uh said this of course a huge story a huge surprise given the mess that rio is off the pitch and on it yeah Yeah, absolutely.

30:06I mean, that's the key here. And I was talking to Jorge de Frutos the other day about this, and he said, well, you know, in part, exactly as Casey's saying, in part, the Conference League is there for this, for teams like us to have an opportunity to have a European adventure, to have a European success, to maybe reach a final. And of course, if you are a Spanish team in a European competition, you would anticipate you have an opportunity to go a reasonable distance. that said there really aren't clubs like raya waikano out there because as you say it's it's it's an it's a real basket case of a club and they do so much wrong and they seem so so gloriously brilliantly and enjoyably out of place in european competition in a stadium that's only got three sides in a stadium that's falling down where there's an enormous divide between the fans and the president where the players themselves this year have not been able to train at the training ground because it's not in sufficiently good condition in which they had to play a home game against Atletico Madrid away because their own ground was not in good enough condition in which the players union put out a statement saying that the Rio de Cana squad had had enough of this and they were demanding the most basic of facilities needed to play professional football in which the president of the club called the fans what was the phrase now drunkards layabouts and brain dead.

31:23So, you know, things are not good. And yet the team... Exactly, it really is. We could change the name of extra time to Drunken Slayer. Just have that the caption when Stevie and Craig are on. It's, I mean, it really is extraordinary. But obviously in that adversity, I think, comes some of the strength of the squad. I think it's a very, very close group, the squad, with the manager who's got, I think, a very high degree of sensitivity and sensibility towards the way that the players feel there's an incredible connection between the fans and the players if not between the fans and the manager or the sorry the fans and the president or the players and the president and so while they do a lot of things wrong somewhere in there something very very special has been built even back when i was there you had no idea where you were training really day to day we would be at one place and then maybe we'd be in the athletic stadium and then maybe we'd be at the at vayakas in the stadium and then we i had one my spanish wasn't very good early on and i didn't read something and i showed up at the wrong place and i had to call and i wasn't late for training but i was late for the time you were supposed to be there and and yeah every morning i would call the goalkeeping coach just to confirm where are we training today.

32:44And we used to think about the successes we had on the field, the successes that the club is having now on the field. And you just thought, if you just got the infrastructure right, it could be such a great little club. You know, you could just... And still what, 40 years later? It's worse. Yep. And you just think, how is that possible? and you're still finishing mid-table in La Liga. Sid, are you going to the game? Fortunately, I'm not, no. I was really looking forward to this one, but it hasn't been possible to go. And it will be a great occasion, I think, as well. And, you know, Casey knows, having been there, the connection with the neighbourhood, because bear in mind, this is in a neighbourhood of Madrid that was separate from the city, but has been swallowed up by the city, that's very proud of its kind of working-class heritage, that sees itself as separate from the rest of the country, that has a very, very defined identity.

33:38And it's a place where it's a lot of fun to go and watch football. It feels like a club from 40 years ago, that kind of, if you like, the last one standing of a different era. But Sid, do you think that's going to be a bunch of the Vegas community travelling to East Germany for a match? 11 ,000 are going, which is extraordinary, isn't it? And it's a really, really big deal for them, 11 ,000 going. There was actually a story this week which I think defines it quite nicely actually and defines the way that you look at Raya Viacana, that kind of sense that everything's wrong but at the same time everything's kind of alright.

34:12There were a number of fans that got caught out in a scam which was basically obviously someone offering to charter a flight for a relatively low fee. They would charter a flight and take Raya fans there and of course lots of them signed up and the person who took the money just disappeared. and so the response to this apart from the initial tragedy of my god you know the greatest moment in your entire history you're not going to get there a crowdfunding account was put together and the players started pouring money into it to ensure that their fans didn't miss out on this and I think that says something in the end in the end that's kind of if you like as I say the kind of the portrait of this club that everything is wrong but somewhere in all that mess there is a way of bringing them together and making things okay again Great stuff as always Sid just a reminder we'll be reflecting on that game on the next edition of ESPN FC Plus continuing to count down to the start of the World Cup.

35:05It's the Champions League final this weekend. There were doubts about the fitness of Dembele and Hakimi. Both trained today and what will be only Tuesday, so they'll be fine to start against Arsenal this weekend. There was, of course, doubt about Lionel Messi when he came off in that extraordinary game between Inter Miami and Philadelphia. In the end though, it's just fatigue and he will be fine. Does that affect Stevie's bracket for the World Cup? This is quite the long YouTube video as Stevie takes us right from kickoff to the final. You can check that out over on our YouTube page. That's quite the microphone too.

35:45Very serious, isn't he? Meanwhile, big news coming out of women's football. Alexis Pateas will be leaving Barcelona at the end of the season. She'll be heading to London, according to reports, to play for London City. Now, this news broke just as they were recording Football W. Gemma Solaire came on to give all the latest news. Be sure to check that now. That is available on ESPN+.

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37:21That's a great question. Contract obligations. Casey, Stevie and Ali still with us as well.

37:32Welcome in to the latest edition of Extra Time. Casey is here, Ali as well, Stevie and Frank the Buffett. They insisted on coming out for Extra Time. Frank, lovely to have you with us. Thank you. I didn't insist for anything, but I came over. I was watching Vinnie Jones' documentary, and I saw the famous Wimbledon-Liverpool final with Steve Nichols. Oh, cheers, Frank. Bring that on. One of the lowest points of Stevie's career. I know. He wants so many things, so he can let Wimbledon winning once. You know, it's OK. Stevie has got some very interesting takes on that final. OK. I saw Frank on the Netflix documentary The Bus.

38:16I wanted to watch this actually. Can he comment on the whole event and has the documentary changed his opinion of the 2010 South Africa World Cup? Frank, for those who don't know what happened, just give a very brief summary before we get your opinion on how you were portrayed. The documentary is about the strike. the 2010 national team went on that day, well like two days before the last game of the group stages in the South Africa World Cup. And what happened with the coach and the fact that the half-time, the second game, Nicolas Nelkos said some words to him, and not the words that were repeated to the media, but it became such a big story that even the president of France, Mr Sarkozy, said something has to happen and they kicked out Nicolas Sannelka from the squad.

39:12And in fact, the players disagreed and said, we want to go on strike and we want Nicolas to be back. But Raymond Dominic did everything to make sure that he will not be drawn on his own and everybody is going to be hurt. And this is what happened with the strike and with all the story. You really have to see that documentary because it's very interesting. And I have to say that I always say that the players, because I was working with William Gallas, where the story started with him, because he wasn't the captain, he should have been. And he put, and Raymond Domenech put Patriceva in that position.

39:50And I always say to the players to talk, and they never talked, and it's crazy. But after the documentary, I was so troubled by the story that I called Nicolas Anelka. And I said, why you didn't talk? You should have gone to media and talk and explain what happened. I mean according to the documentary, Raymond Dominic is guilty for everything and the players were very maybe innocent people, maybe too young to react, I don't know, but they weren't guilty for everything and and media, L 'Equipe, the only sport media in France, didn't apologize 16 years after for what they put in the front page with such bad words Nicolas Sennicat never said.

40:34So it's huge, it's really big and he says a lot about Raymond Dominic, the French Federation at the time and also the newspaper. Okay. Which side of the... Is it in French? Why have they put this in? This has got disaster in all over it. Which side of the fence are you on when it comes to allowing wives and partners to join players at World Cup camps? 1986, Stevie, I imagine that you didn't have wives or partners. You tell a great story, I think you've told this publicly before, about who was your roommate and what happened when him and his wife had an argument. Oh Arthur

41:22So I was rooming with Arthur Olberst and this was in Actually this was a pre-World Cup We were in Albuquerque And we got back to the room And with a time difference I'm sat in that bed, Arthur's in that bed And it all starts off Normal, hello, how you doing Blah blah blah And then the tone of it started changing So it finally ended up with Arthur saying okay I'm coming home and I'll get a job as a plumber.

41:56Was it ever in the conversation for Eleanor to join you at the World Cup? No and that never never was a thing at all. And listen I call me old-fashioned but when When you're away playing at a World Cup, you need to concentrate on what you're there for. And as much as we all love seeing the kids and the wives and everything else, the other stuff takes over. Because obviously, your wife thinks she's the most important thing. Now when you're at a World Cup, the most important thing is the World Cup, but you're not at home anymore but the wives and the girlfriends don't see it that way and then you throw kids on top of that so yeah in my opinion no you're away doing a job basically it's a fantastic job but you're doing a job and you need to concentrate on it fully so in my opinion um no i don't think the partner should go there and unless you're a heartless husband or partner you are concerned about what's going on with your wife and your kids, the ticket sorted out.

43:13You seem to have your attention divided from what your actual job is and making sure that your family is taken care of. Now the way I approach this say for Copa America, which we were gone for a month, it was basically my wife just, she didn't come to the tournament, she just stayed at home, she was there with the kids, we would talk, we would have a time frame in which we would talk every night and then that's it. Was becoming a plumber ever mentioned? No, it was not, no it was not, and I'm not very handy when it comes to plumbing, so I would have been useless regardless. But the point being is that even though it's hard to be away from the family, it becomes harder when they're there, but they're not really there.

44:00And so now you have to think about their well-being while you're also trying to figure out what their well-being is for you and the team in preparation for you, what you have in front of you. I think one of the tricky parts about this is, I don't know what it was like at Liverpool back in the day, Steve, but I'm assuming, like most English teams, you weren't in a hotel the night before a match. Home matches, no? Home matches, no. No. So, you probably had some of your best matches ever at Anfield when you were with your family and with that and slept and got up in the morning and went and played a match.

44:33So now you're in this concentration when you're away from that. So you think Moise should come? There's so many different ways of looking at it. Yeah, that's what I mean. I think there could be a balance. I think it also depends on individual relationships that you have with your spouse or partner and how supportive they are or how demanding they are when you're in this environment where you need to be 100 % focused. There's absolutely no question that if you get a good night's sleep in your own bed the day before a game and you turn up and play, right. I don't think anybody would argue with that.

45:06However, the problem is, is when something arises to do with the kids or your wife or whatever. example being we were playing Middlesbrough my wife ended up going to the hospital in the middle of the night now you don't foresee those things right so you just don't know what's going to turn up and you can't you can't legislate for it so the fact that they take them away now in my opinion is the best thing get them away again and concentrate on your job and unless it's something it's a real emergency then you don't want somebody waking you up at three in the morning. I think there can be a balance.

45:48I think there can be times when, yes, you are away, and then you can have some time with the family, and then you can get back, and then post-match, you can maybe have a dinner. You can kind of be together for a little bit, see the kids, and then be like, okay, now we're getting prepped for the next match. So, cup final. Every cup final, any cup final, for example, the waves would be over but we'd never see them right we never saw them till after the game so they would they would just we would concentrate on what we got to do and the waves were looked after taken out for dinner we'd go to a show but we never saw them now the difference tv is that's two or three days not yeah that's three or four weeks yeah frank your thoughts Yeah, for World Cup, because the question includes the World Cup and only the World Cup.

46:41And for us, you know, it was like we go to the final of the World Cup. So it's like two months. And on top of the preparation, you start the World Cup a month before we prepared in 98. And so we had the chance. Emé Jaquet, what he did, he organized something for us every game, after every game of the group stages where our wives had a chance to come with us and stay overnight for the group stages. But after that, and when we started the last 16, for example, they were just coming after the game, say hi, we had a drink and bye-bye. That's it. And we were going back to the camp. But that's it. I think for me, I liked it because I wanted to have some news about the kid, how she was feeling.

47:26My ex-wife was living in England with the kid. So I wanted to see how things were going so but and just to say the truth at the time with 98 we had funds but that's it we couldn't have you know social networks and and and videos and see the the kids so so it was a hard time and again because you you were I was two months away from my family so it's it's hard to cope with it and I was quite pleased with the the schedule that they measure keep put on it's It's really easier now, by the way, because you can now have FaceTime, you can actually have access to being part of your family's life while you're away.

48:06That was not available back in the day. I used to get a Red Cross parcel every four days. I wonder what it would be. Did it contain any crisps? Choclets, newspapers. Every four days I would get a new parcel. Because you don't buy a newspaper where you work? In Mexico City? No, in Mexico City. In Mexico in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, yeah. Oh, get me the sun. Go down to the shop and get me the sun, will you? You're not allowed to read the sun. No. No smart-hot-alec comments, by the way, on that question from me. Moving on. You're very proud. Very proud of myself. You've grown up. You gave me the look.

48:40Yeah. And we decided to move on. Frank has upset a lot of Spurs players, Ali. I'm not sure if you saw this. Casey is a former team. He was really critical of them celebrating on Sunday, staying up. But you know one of the big reasons why they were celebrating? You know how many contract clauses now say if you get relegated, your contract gets cut in half? Yep. So, Frank, disappointed with Spurs players for engaging, celebrating with 60 ,000 fans after the game. With 60 ,000 fans, Frank, in the stadium after a match thanking the players and the coach, you would have said disappointed for players walking off.

49:16You're a bit of a hypocrite. Wow. Take that off. Take that. Oh, wow, that's a big word. I just want to respect the club, to respect my fans. And when you had such a bad season, what do you want to celebrate? You don't want to celebrate anything. You want to apologize. You want your fans to forgive you. So you just go. You say, sorry, guys. We try to do our best. Go to the shower. And that's it. Because you don't deserve anything. You don't need some claps. You don't need some relief. You don't need anything. And fans, I can agree with Dan Steller that the fact that you are relieved and you're going to stay in the Premier League, but the players, they would have been relegated.

50:05Half of the team would have gone away and signed for another club and so disappeared. So I care about the fans. I care about the club. I'm sorry, the players. Just be humble. Just say, sorry, guys. Get out. You should be embarrassed, really. You're a Spurs player to be in this position. Just celebrate. What a relief. I think there's a point where you're like, yes, we didn't have the ultimate disaster, but there has to be a level of humility there because, yes, you never, ever should have been in that position. Part of the reason that you're celebrating that. Oh, there's nonsense. No, no, no. Just hey.

50:43Sorry, guys. Sorry. No. No, but on top of it, it's not a small club who survived the relegation. We're talking about Tottenham Spurs. That's why I'm saying that. I was in Laval. We couldn't save ourselves and we went down. That couldn't have been such a relief for a small club like Laval. But we're talking about Tottenham Spurs. And for the second season in a row, they've almost been relegated. So, no, I'm sorry. I step up and I still disagree with what the players did. For Casey, with players like Christian Pulisic, Florian Balogun, Ricardo Pepe, Malik Tillman, Wester McKinney, and Gio Reyne, is this the best attacking team that the US men's national team has ever brought to the World Cup?

51:36I think there's an argument for that. but we're still waiting to see what the identity of that group is because I think if let's go back to the Belgium match for 30 minutes I'm watching this match and I'm going wow they're attacking so well and then as soon as Belgium flipped a switch that great attack didn't matter anymore because you're two nil down before that great attack had a chance to outscore your opponent which squad are comparing it to?

52:10When you take a look at the attacking prowess of previous World Cup teams. Well, we never were really known for our attacking prowess. Right. Right. I mean, so you're looking at where we were never a team that you were going to say the US is going to go outscore your opponent. Look, we got lucky against Portugal in 2002 that we had one of those matches where we scored three goals. that wasn't the way the U.S. won games. Not in World Cups. So for us, it was about staying competitive, getting a goal, trying to hang on to something. And so I think, yeah, I think this has an opportunity. Now, I think we're all questioning what this World Cup is going to look like because you mentioned it before.

53:01There's a couple of good teams. there's a whole bunch of teams in the middle and there's a couple teams that are going to get thumped. And trying to figure that out who can perform at the time and I'm still not sure this is a team against Paraguay, against Australia who Stevie mentioned earlier they're fighters, they're grinders they're going to give everything that you're going to then just go outscore your opponents. Frank, we talked about this on the show and this is sponsored this question does it really matter how a coach tells you you're not going to the World Cup Pepe hung up on Berhalter when he found out he was left out is this only a story because the roster leaked and people need something to talk about in case you've missed it Pochettino sent out an email which basically said you're in or you're out he justified that today in the press conference saying what am I going to phone them and say you know if it was me I don't need an explanation I don't want to even hear from the coach Frank I wonder what you would say

54:03I think for certain players it does matter. I remember Imejaquet going to Cantona, going to Manchester to tell him that he wanted him but as a striker. And I think Eric disagreed so that's why he didn't come for the World Cup. I think Imejaquet, no, Romain Dominic went to see Thierry Henry to say he's not in the World Cup. Thierry Henry said, oh come on, take me. I would be my fourth one. He never played, but he came. And I think for some players, yeah, you need to be psychologically ready to explain to them why you take them or not. For me, Emi Jacquet made a deal with me two months before. He said, I'm sorry, but Laurent Blanc and Marcel Desai will play.

54:48That's my decision. If you agree, you can come. But I don't want to hear anything in the media. if you don't agree you you you can go on holidays and I'm gonna take somebody else so two months before I knew but but I think it's important for some players to explain why they did they are there and but it shouldn't be a big story after that because that's that's the decision I take I take Thomas Torel so many players you could get you have like 30 players 35 players and you will be will have players disappointed. So you have to make a choice and everybody is a coach. Everybody is a national team coach right now where he's going to decide why I should have taken that one and not that one.

55:34It's a hard decision from for every every coach. So for some of them you have to tell them but from others you take your own decision and it has to be accepted. Everyone agreed during the show that you would like a phone call? I mean the thing is is while I understand that the player pool may be 55 players really came down to two or three players that didn't make it. And so those are the two or three players that you just need to have the decency, common decency of picking up the phone and saying, listen, it's not going to work out this time. I know you're disappointed and we're going to move forward and this, that, and the other.

56:10And that's it. That's it. That's the length of the conversation and that's the extent of the conversation. As a player, you just want to be acknowledged and that your work was worth something and that it came down to a decision. and it wasn't you, it was somebody else that was picked, but you want to be acknowledged. This is running away from that acknowledgement. And I think it is embarrassing behavior from a national team coach. It's running away from your responsibility as a manager to acknowledge your players. These guys, whether they're in the World Cup or not, they have been your players for the time that they have spent together.

56:46So they deserve that much respect and he did not provide that. That is embarrassing. Frank, is the Champs-France squad the best team ever fielded for a World Cup, including yours?

57:00Well, we'll see. We'll see if they win the World Cup. We could say that, but definitely offensively, they're absolutely fantastic. And maybe, maybe better than the 98 team, for sure. But defensively and in the middle of the park, I'm sorry. I'm not going to compare my team and that team. We have so many question marks about the two center backs, but also in the middle of the park, where, you know, we had De Sailly and Blanc at the back. We had Deschamps, Petit, Vieira, Bogossian in the middle of the park. They were amazing. So, no, I don't think they're better, but offensively, it's a big armada, and I think they can create entertainment, crazy entertainment for sure.

57:51What about the depth of the squad? Because I think France is so deep. And so, I mean, if you do have a couple players go down. So you're saying this squad is much better than France's squad? No. That's what I feel like you're alluding on. That's the direction he was going. I'm just saying, it's a very, very strong squad. And it's all relative, because Frank is talking about question marks for France. Well, yes, there may be some question marks for France, but the question marks for France are not comparable to the question marks for Curaçao. For goodness sake. Wow. So, you know, we're talking about one of the one or two very favorites to win this whole thing.

58:31So, yeah, they may have a question here or there, but those are minor questions, not big questions. Let's answer your question, Casey. Sure. What's the percentage chance that you ask out of that group? Do we have the group to show people? But also remember that you're talking about eight of the third place finishers get out of the group. Yes. So, I mean, the U.S. should get out of this group. Okay. So when I usually, when they ask me, how far is the team going to go? How far is the team going to go? No, that's not the question. The case is percentage. Well, you got to get out of the group first.

59:01No, that's all it is. Percentage get out of the group. 70, 80%. There we go. 70, 80%. Scott, Stevie, you've made a noise. 80%. 80 % Three of the eight Third place Teams Get out of the group If you're at home You should get out of the group That squad You should get out of the group As we said in the show Shoulder woulda coulda Maybe According to your bracket You did have them Getting out of the group Alright good job Stevie I'm going to go Stevie Available 98 % No what percent 78 50 50 % Ali To get out of the group Yes 75 % 75 % Yeah To get out of the group Come on, less than 80. Come on. Just...

59:45Wow. Scott McTominay's overhead kick goal is going to be featured on a special£20 banknote introduced by the Bank of Scotland. Stevie, what other goals in Scotland's history would be worthy to put on a special... Has Scotland ever gone out of a goal? Easily. No, they've never gone out of a goal. That's the easiest question. Go on. Archie Gamble. Archie Gamble? Just remind people what that was. So in 1978 Scotland went to Argentina for the World Cup and we were one of the favourites apparently. And we had to beat Holland in the last game by two goals to qualify out of the tournament, out of the group stages.

1:00:25And it was 1-1 with about 20 minutes to go and actually again we went on a run and walked through about three or four Dutch defenders, slept the ball past Youngblood, I believe it was, in goal. And all of a sudden, there was hope. And every single World Cup that comes around, regardless of whether we're in it or not, that goal is played. Now, McTominay might overtake that. Yes. But if you were going to do another one, that would be Archie Gemmel, 1978. But you didn't qualify? No. Holland took a kickoff and scored about 30 seconds there to make it 2-2 to the dream ending. It's also very hard to put a long run in a bill.

1:01:14Which US moment would make it on the back of a bill? One of your saves in the gold cone? No, no. Go, go, go. USA. Landon Donovan. Probably. That's a good moment. You would say probably something 2002, maybe one of the goals against Mexico in the knockout to get us into the quarterfinal. Brian scored, didn't he? I think so, yeah. Frank, which moment for you? Simply, you know, Zidane first header in the 98 World Cup. And you know why? Because I'm just behind, so I will be with him.

1:01:57Blanc getting red carded so Frank got to play in the final. Yeah, yeah. Suspension of Blanc. Exactly. Ali, which part of Venezuela history would make it? Winning all the quarterfinals in Copa America 2011. Beating Chile 2-1. That would have been it. Would you have a worse body moment? I would have been in the picture as I was warming up behind the goal. But I was looking good in the warm-up. I did come on and close that game down the last 10-15 minutes. I mean, just solid, very solid with my touches. Just fouls. I drew a couple fouls. Very athletic. Fell over a couple times. Final question, quite random.

1:02:39What's your favorite French dish, Frank?

1:02:44The beauf bourguignon. Oh, yeah. And you know what? When I come over to Connecticut, in West Hartford, There is a place, a restaurant, a French restaurant. And I had last time a very good beurre bourguignon with Steve McManaman. He really enjoyed it. He had a lot of French fries, a lot of beers as well, but he enjoyed the beurre bourguignon. And really, that's a stew. In English, you say a stew, a French stew, and that's absolutely exquisite. So try that, guys. Beautiful. That's it. That brings us to the end of today's show. So we brought Frank just for this? Just for this, Frank. It's quite hot.

1:03:24You've got a heat wave at the moment. I imagine you're in shorts doing this. Do you want to show us your legs? Yeah, I'm in shorts. You know, I'm ready to go to bed. Wait a minute. That's me. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah. Well, you don't want to see too much. I want to see too much. Yeah, yeah, stay calm. But I, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I was scheduled for that show. and that's it ESPN FC returns your screen tomorrow we'll be reflecting on live no one cares

1:03:59we'll be back tomorrow

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