Rooney, Hazard, Messi and more on your international break pod

Published: Oct. 12, 2023, 2:42 p.m.

Jimbo, Duncan Alexander, Dom Fifield and Adrian Clarke are back to cast their collective eye over all football happenings.\n\nWith the likes of Scotland, France, Austria and Belgium on the verge of qualification for Euro 2024, England prepare to host Australia as we revisit memories of friendly encounters with the Socceroos gone by. And can we please see Lewis Dunk as the new lynchpin of the Three Lions defence?\n\nEden Hazard announces his retirement from football. One of the greatest players of his generations but a man whose socks told us how his career would ultimately end.\n\nWayne Rooney is out of DC and into BCFC as the new manager of Birmingham. Will we finally find out how good a coach he is now that he\u2019ll have some money to spend?\n\nPlus Paul Tenorio gives us his thoughts on Rooney and the impact that Lionel Messi failing to make the play-offs will have on MLS.\n\nProduced by Charlie Jones.\n\xa0\nRUNNING ORDER:\xa0\n\u2022 PART 1: Euro 2024 qualifying bonanza (02.30)\n\u2022 PART 2: England v Australia preview (09.00)\n\u2022 PART 3: Eden Hazard retires from football (23.00)\n\u2022 PART 4: Rooney in at Birmingham (34.00)\n\u2022 PART 5: Paul Tenorio on Messi\u2019s MLS impact (44.00)\n\nSIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC TODAY FOR \xa31.99 A MONTH FOR 12 MONTHS\n\u2022\xa0theathletic.com/totally\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices