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James welcomes Kevin McCarra, Paul Doyle and Barry Glendenning up to near-earth-orbit to thrash out the week’s football news.

Keeper Essam El Hadari and a linesman error helped England to a 3-1 win over African Champions Egypt, but what did we learn from the friendly? And has John Terry lost his form at the worst possible time?

After Scotland throw the kilt-wearing monkey off their backs by winning a home friendly after 5,000 odd days, the pod wonder whether new manager Craig Leven is the best man for the job.

As Spain win their 41st game out of 45, Sid Lowe gushes at great length about the wonderflulness of the European Champions. Passports permitting, would any of England’s players get in the Spanish squad?

There’s also news of crowd trouble between different PSG ultra groups, blasphemy in Italy and the Red Knights that may or may not like to say ‘Ni’.

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In a line-up that’s every bit as unsurprising as the top four in the Premier League, James Richardson is joined in the pod by Barry Glendenning and Sean Ingle in another rip-roaring edition of Football Weekly.

The pod squad analyse Chelsea’s demolition of Arsenal, Liverpool’s bruising battle with Everton, and Tottenham Hotspur’s snoozefest with Aston Villa and ask: why are we getting another dose of the same old same old?

Also in the show – and lest we be accussed of Big Four-centricity – we discuss Hull City’s recent revival now that Phil Brown ditched the earpiece and the goatee.

Plus, we ponder whether Fabio Capello’s done the right thing in stripping John Terry of the England captaincy. And we get dewy-eyed about those Brat Pack movies of the 1980s.

Finally, our favourite Teuton Raphael Honigstein brings us news of a rift in the German national team and the latest from the Bundesliga; Sid Lowe brings us up to date with Spain’s La Liga; and Jimbo tells us about Lazio’s mounting woes in Serie A.

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Preview: Poland and Ukraine are the hosts for Euro 2012 and today, representatives of the 53 member associations who’ll be duking it out Royal Rumble style to qualify for the finals, which kick off on 8 June, will gather in Warsaw to learn their fate.

Today’s draw takes place in the Polish capital’s Palace of Culture and Science and will feature 51 plastic balls (Poland and Ukraine qualify automatically as hosts, but holders Spain must qualify the hard way) being swirled, plucked and cracked open by a dizzying array of tanned and well fed men in fetching blazers.

There are 14 berths at Euro 2012 up for grabs and nine groups will be formed in today’s qualifying draw: six groups of six teams and three of five. The seedings are formed on the basis of the Uefa national team coefficient ranking system, with holders Spain automatically top seeded. Each group will contain one side from the first five pots and six of them will also feature a team from Pot 6.

The nine group winners and the best runner-up qualify directly for the final tournament. The eight remaining runners-up will contest two-legged play-offs to decide who gets the four remaining places. You can see who’s in which pot below, where I’ve highlighted the five home nations. England are in Pot One, the Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Northern Ireland are in Pot Three and Wales are in Pot Four.

Pot One: Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, England, Croatia, Portugal, France, Russia

Pot Two: Greece, Czech Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, Serbia, Turkey, Denmark, Slovakia, Romania

Pot Three: Israel, Bulgaria, Finland, Norway, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Pot Four: Slovenia, Latvia, Hungary, Lithuania, Belarus, Belgium, Wales, FYR Macedonia, Cyprus

Pot Five: Montenegro, Albania, Estonia, Georgia, Moldova, Iceland, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein

Pot Six: Azerbaijan, Luxembourg, Malta, Faroe Islands, Andorra, San Marino

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Barry Glendenning and Barney Ronay go head to head in the John Terry debate

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Joining James in the pod today, Barry Glendenning, John Ashdown and Paolo Bandini are on hand to offer their expertise.

Is it back to a two-horse race for the Premier League title? Plus, who’s for the drop?

After allegations about his private life, can and should John Terry hold on to the England captaincy?

Sid Lowe in Madrid rounds up the latest from the Spanish league. He discusses ‘the heel of God‘ as well as picking poppies.

There’s also the latest from Italy, including Adrian Mutu failing a drug test.

As Egypt win the Africa Cup of Nations, the pod is bewildered by the latest decision to come from its governing body.

And also up for discussion: the great east Midlands derby brouhaha, and Barry being the focus of an Irish radio station’s phone-in.

WARNING: contains strong language.

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In a special video, filmed live at the Emirates Stadium in association with Enjoy England, Football Weekly regulars James Richardson, Barry Glendenning and Kevin McCarra are joined by David Pleat – and a vuvuzela – to analyse the World Cup draw

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4.15pm: Barney will be along shortly, but here’s what’s coming up later today on guardian.co.uk/sport:

* Video – We’ll have all the reaction from South Africa from 8pm
* Blogs – Our writers, including Kevin McCarra and Richard Williams, will comment on the draw within an hour of it finishing
* Print the draw – Download and print a pdf of the full draw and chart England’s possible route to the finals (OK, quarter-finals)
* Interactive guide – Get the lowdown on all 32 nations and the World Cup venues with our fantastic multimedia application
* Football Weekly: video – James Richardson, David Pleat, Kevin McCarra and Barry Glendenning chew over the main talking points (this is being recorded tonight and will be on guardian.co.uk/football tomorrow morning)

Guardian fans’ network This from guardian.co.uk sports editor Sean Ingle. “As you will have noticed, Barney’s minute-by-minute commentary is accompanied tonight by a Scribble Live box showing instant reaction from supporters across the globe to the World Cup draw. Our hope is that this new Guardian fans’ network will provide added depth, insight and analysis to tonight’s mbm coverage. So if England draw Slovakia, for instance, readers will know what Slovakian TV is saying about the draw, which Slovakian players that will be dangers next June and anything else worth detailing. Here’s hoping you like it.”

Preamble: Hello everyone and welcome to our coverage of the 2010 World Cup draw. Fifa’s shebang – starring Oscar-winning actor Charlize Theron and colourful Fifa suit, Jérôme Valcke and featuring guest slots from Sepp Blatter and David Beckham – gets underway at 5pm, with the draw itself starting at 6pm.

How the draw works The 32 teams are split into eight groups of four, but – unsurprisingly – it won’t be as simple as Ms Theron drawing a team from each pot. Some groups may need to be skipped in order to avoid confederation clashes within them. This will be achieved specifically by placing the first two African teams drawn from pot three into the groups containing Brazil and Argentina.

Pot 1: South Africa, Brazil, Spain, Holland, Italy, Germany, Argentina, England.
Pot 2: Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Mexico, Honduras.
Pot 3: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Algeria, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay.
Pot 4: France, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Greece, Serbia, Denmark, Slovakia.

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Barry Glendenning, Kevin McCarra and Sean Ingle join host James Richardson in podland for a look back over the week’s international football action.

As England round off Group Six with a thoroughly unconvincing display against Belarus, the pod discuss what we have learned from their last two games and assess their chances in the finals.

Argentina scraped through after a narrow win in Uruguay which prompted an extraordinary press conference from Diego Maradona. Marcela Mora y Araujo calls in from Montevideo with the details.

Sid Lowe has all the Spanish news, including another fantastic performance from a much changed Spain side against Bosnia, and why he thinks Robhino will join Barcelona in January.

It’s back to league action at the weekend and the pod preview Sunderland v Liverpool, the Cotton Mill derby and Juventus v Fiorentina amongst others.

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Barry will be here at 7.45pm to take us through England’s final competitive match before the World Cup.

There are, of course, various friendlies to see off before then but in terms of the record books, the stats and the Fifa rankings this is the last one that counts. Fabio Capello played it straight against Ukraine but with Steven Gerrard already out this is his first real chance to experiment. Kevin McCarra explains why he must take the opportunity here but also why he may have to change his style before the World Cup.

All the players will have one eye on the squad for 2010, none more so than a rusty Rio Ferdinand who has been having a quiet chat with Capello during the build-up and Gabriel Agbonlahor who will also looking to make an impression against Belarus.

Meanwhile, almost exactly a year ago England met Belarus the first time round and frankly, struggled. You can see what Barry made of that match and the hot topic of the time – booing at Wembley here.

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In the latest Football Weekly, internet sensation James Richardson is joined by Sean Ingle, Barry Glendenning and Jonathan Wilson to look back on – let’s be honest – a surprisingly dramatic weekend of World Cup qualifiers.

We kick off with England’s defeat in Ukraine. Is it time to bed in an alternative to Rio Ferdinand at the back? Did David James do enough to cement his position as the country’s top goalkeeper? And who’ll lead the line against Belarus in the absence of Wayne Rooney?

The pod debate the Republic of Ireland’s 2-2 draw with Italy. The world champions are through, but who will Ireland face in the play-offs?

Beyond Europe, the pod discuss how Argentina almost drew against Peru, the worst team in South America. Now Diego Maradona’s team need a draw in Uruguay to reach South Africa – which could have dire consequences for England.

Finally, the pod look at Sir Alex Ferguson’s non-denial denial in his spat with referee Alan Wiley, and ask is the FA’s fit and proper test even easier to pass than your cycling proficiency?

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