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Remembering Ray Clemence

Logarzo scores for Bristol

Rooney take over at Derby

That and more on this morning's FNR Daily.

Ed and Josh look ahead to the Asian Champions League, telling you all you need to know about each of the 9 opponents the A-League teams will face.

Can Victory knock off an out of form FC Seoul?

Will FC Tokyo's set piece specialist put Perth to the sword?

Will Aaron Mooy find his feet at SIPG?

And can Ange Postecoglou win the whole thing?

Plus, last week Damian and Josh were fortunate enough to catch up with Matildas attacker Emily Gielnik, who explains why she left Bayern Munich, tells us about her fine goalscoring form in Sweden, and shares her thoughts on the W-League ahead of her homecoming to Brisbane Roar.

Nick D'Urbano returns alongside Josh Parish and Nick Hughes to celebrate Scotland's first qualification to a major tournament in 22 years, at the expense of Serbia. Plus, Dominik Szoboszlai adds another zero or two to his asking price, Northern Ireland fall apart, and Goran Pandev rolls back the years to lead North Macedonia to their first Euros.

It's Indigenous Football Week, and John Moriarty Foundation Project Manager Jamie Morris is with us to share an insight into their invaluable work promoting the round ball game in Aboriginal communities.

Finally, the Newcastle Jets are close to a sale, and there's the Friday Quiz to attend to...

Ryan Walters welcomes in experts from around Asia to preview the resumption of the AFC Champions League set to kick off in Doha on November 18th with Perth Glory vs Shanghai Shenhua. Before the first ball is kicked, we go (slightly out of order) group by group discussing each team's current form, the standout player on each side, and answering listener submitted questions throughout the show.

With the help of the work of Tim Sherratt, Ian and Paul discuss the foreign language newspaper entries into Trove - a new avenue for Australian football research. Plus, there's 100 years ago today, a look at Tony Persoglia's latest work for FV, and much more.

- FA Chairman resigns

- Souttar in form

- France stunned by Finland

All that & more in today's edition of FNR Daily!

Ed and Athos wrap up the latest A-League offseason moves, and discuss Wellington Phoenix abandoning their plans to enter a W-League team this season, after FFA refused to allow New Zealand nationals to be registered as locals.

Plus, in the latest in our Aussies Abroad interview series, Josh and Damian chat to Greenville Triumph striker Lachlan McLean, fresh from winning the USL League One title. Lachlan shares his experiences playing college soccer in rural southern Illinois, his high-pressure trials to win a pro contract, and the challenges of living in the US in 2020 - including his battle back from contracting coronavirus.

The Levain Cup final scheduled for Saturday was postponed after a COVID-19 outbreak at Kashiwa Reysol, and Dan Orlowitz from The Japan Times guests to discuss the timeline of events from last week, and what the J.League might do in terms of shoehorning Kashiwa's postponed league fixtures and the rescheduled final in to an already epically busy fixture list.

We also chat about what lies ahead for Reysol's final opponents, FC Tokyo, as well as Kobe and Yokohama F.Marinos in the ACL bubble in Qatar beginning at the end of the month, and give our thoughts on a question on Kobe from a supporter on Patreon (to 41:25).

Then in Part 2 your regular co-hosts round up the top flight fixtures from the past week - we said we'd be brief, but we really weren't.

Gielnik returns to Brisbane, Wellington's W-League plans scrapped and Bernie Ibini takes stress leave from Newcastle.

We're back for another hour of English football round-up with reaction from Man City vs Liverpool, a big win for United and some huge news coming out of Sheffield Wednesday over the past few days. League One, League Two, FA Cup Round 1 and more!