Malmö

Jackie here.

We are only about a month out from Champs in Malmö, Sweden.

Can you believe it? Where has the time gone? There's only a handful of teams left to talk to.

And today you get to hear from Rainy City Roller Derby's Penny Block and Faye Roberts.

The center left opposition cheer what looks like victory in the Swedish elections.

As the count continues, we'll speak to our man in Malmö.

Also ahead on today's show, how chaos across the world has prompted unusual harmony among members of the techy BRICS group of countries.

We'll find out more about this weekend's gathering in Delhi.

Now, Sweden voted in a closely fought parliamentary election yesterday.

The choice was between another term for Ulf Kristersson's right-wing alliance, this time with the far-right Sweden Democrats in government, or a return for power for Magdalena Andersson's center left.

Well, in a moment, we'll be in Malmö for the latest on an election which could take days to sort out.

First, let's get the lowdown of what happened overnight.

We do two shows in Sweden.

We do Malmo [laughs] and Stockholm, and then we're out," you know? Um, uh, so I, I...

He, [laughs] he's great.

I just think how funny he is sometimes, some of the stuff that comes out of his mouth.

my one then I've only got one Marcus Rosenberg

yeah yeah bloke literally bagged seems every week for Malmo in the Champions

League Europa League scored goals for Sweden came to West Brom so before so he bagged wherever he's been Ajax 12 goals Werder Bramley scored 40 Malmo in his second stint scored 67 goals like he's how many games were we saying so Werder Bremen 120 games 40 goals Ajax got 12 in 40 Malmo when he was younger got his first in 52 games 8 goals I think when he was like 18 so he played at a high level came to the Albion big fee and played 30 games and never scored I can't tell you what he looks like I've got no idea he's blonde he was captain of Malmo for years he looks

like Bentner but he's not Bentner didn't he go back to Sweden and then score again after

yeah so he went he started at Malmo and ended back up at Malmo at the end so 156 games he finished his career at Malmo still playing at 35 and he bagged 67 goals in 156 games so he was

decent that's not bad

but literally the thing is every West Brom player that era says he was the best trainer and the best player in the team Just can't do it on a Sunday.

yeah you can watch the europa league games here in the eagle pub in dublin i've come to visit for a couple of days we thought we'd um we thought we'd record so i need

like just yeah just to broaden that basically a year and a half ago we were in here watching the lions rugby and we bumped into eddie who runs the eagle pub and he is a forest fan and we sort of came up with this idea to watch some games down here because we were going to be in the europa league the following season And obviously we did, and we watched a load in the corner down there, a load of unbelievable games like Michelin Penalty Shootout, Porto Way, Aston Villa at home, Malmo 3-0 trashing, like lots of really cool games.

Even the Premier League West Ham game against Nuno, you know the one that you were at? We watched them all down here, so...

Big shout out to Eddie and the Eagle.

It was called Limbo Panto.

They recorded it at Gula Studion in Malmö, Sweden.

Of course, all these words are coming up with a band like, you know, Wild Beast.

It just sounds ridiculous.

However, we should need luck to get through in any case, and a risk less or more was nothing to be downhearted about.

Copenhagen and Malmo, with their great pools of light, are now far behind us.

As we meet the fresh breeze at the entrance to the Kattegat, a barkentine under full sail glides past us without a sound.

She carries no lights, and the ghostly outline of her bellying canvas is dimly silhouetted against the moonless sky.