How do Newcastle beat Liverpool in this weekend’s Carabao Cup Final? What would Alan’s starting XI be for the Toon after a couple of key injuries? Why did Andy Cole have to give Micah a reality check as a youngster?
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00:00 - Intro
00:40 - Al’s Thoughts On The Carabao
02:30 - Micah & Toon Army
03:40 - Pints Of Guinness
04:08 - LW & LB For Newcastle
06:10 - Bald Shearer
07:15 - Prime Alan
09:08 - Runners Up Medals
09:50 - Holidays As A Trio
10:50 - Away Days
13:00 - Football Guilty Pleasure
13:40 - Weird Football Purchases
16:50 - Fan Interactions
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00:00 - Intro
00:40 - Al’s Thoughts On The Carabao
02:30 - Micah & Toon Army
03:40 - Pints Of Guinness
04:08 - LW & LB For Newcastle
06:10 - Bald Shearer
07:15 - Prime Alan
09:08 - Runners Up Medals
09:50 - Holidays As A Trio
10:50 - Away Days
13:00 - Football Guilty Pleasure
13:40 - Weird Football Purchases
16:50 - Fan Interactions
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00:00Hello and welcome to the rest of this football question and answer episode with Micah Richards, Alan Shearer and me Gary Lineker.
00:16Thank you once again for sending in your questions, much appreciated.
00:21We've got quite a few featuring a certain game that's coming up at the weekend that Alan...
00:26Come on!
00:27Come on, come on, come on Toon Army!
00:31So I'm going to lead straight in because there's a few in your direction.
00:36Chris J asks, how's Al feeling ahead of the Mighty Toons final against Liverpool?
00:43I'm feeling fine, I'm all right, I'm excited.
00:47Liverpool are going to the game of his favourites, there's no doubt they're having a brilliant season.
00:51Are you slightly encouraged?
00:53I know they've won the last two games that we've seen and we're doing this on...
00:58recording this on Monday morning after they did beat Southampton 3-1,
01:02but they've not been quite as impressive in those games.
01:05They were very lucky against PSG.
01:07Does that give you a little bit of encouragement?
01:10I haven't really thought about that way to be honest, but that's also the sign of a good team.
01:16If you haven't played particularly well and you're still winning,
01:19that's a slight worry, but they'll go into the game as favourites and rightly so,
01:24because they're having an amazing season.
01:26But hey, if Wigan can go to Wembley and beat Man City,
01:29then Newcastle can go to Wembley and beat Liverpool.
01:32Why are you bringing up old stuff, mate?
01:34I'm just having all these things that you've got to hope, you know?
01:37Just give us a little bit of hope.
01:40Okay, the little bit of hope is Al, if you press them,
01:43and when Newcastle are at the best and they press high like PSG did,
01:48of course you've not got the same quality as PSG,
01:51but you can get at them in that part of the year.
01:55That's the chance I would say.
01:57I know Wembley's a massive pitch, but yeah, that'll give you a little bit of hope.
02:01Agreed.
02:02You know, you never know.
02:03I mean, I remember when Leicester beat Chelsea.
02:05We were there, Alan, 2020.
02:07That's right, yeah.
02:08You know, obviously Chelsea were in the Champions League final.
02:10They went on to win it.
02:12And, you know, Tielemans hit that long range and Leicester never had a kick apart from that.
02:17Yep.
02:18But things can happen.
02:19Absolutely.
02:20Yeah, so I think there's a question from Mason Jason.
02:23Mason Jason?
02:24Mason Jason.
02:25What a great name.
02:26I wonder if it's back to front, it should be Jason Mason.
02:29Who knows?
02:30Is Micah going to be showing his love to the Toon Army for the final?
02:34Toon Army!
02:36Toon, of course I am.
02:38You want Newcastle to win, don't you?
02:40Football is a winner, as you know, Alan.
02:45Alan?
02:46What?
02:47What?
02:48Mr Grias out his back.
02:49Get off that fence.
02:51But...
02:52He's scared of the pylon from the Scousers.
02:55No, no, no, no, no, no.
02:56Liverpool will settle surely for the league and the Champions League.
02:59In this case, I want Newcastle to win.
03:02They've not won a trophy for so long.
03:04I went up to St James' when I was in the Champions League, when they played PSG.
03:09It was rocking.
03:10The fans were brilliant.
03:12And I would just love to see them have that moment.
03:15So if you ask me who I want to win, although I respect both clubs,
03:19I would pick Newcastle, Alan.
03:21There you go.
03:22That was the time when you and Jamie Carragher came up to the box, didn't you,
03:25to interview me when I had about four or five pints of Guinness beforehand.
03:29We went up to the box and we interviewed Al.
03:33It was great.
03:34It was fantastic.
03:36That actually, Alan, leads me to a question from John David who says,
03:39how many pints of Guinness will Alan sink if Newcastle win?
03:43Oh, there won't be enough.
03:45Can you imagine?
03:46In fact, you can have an issue, get me on to do a recording on Sunday night
03:51if Newcastle win the Carabao because I will go missing.
03:54Oh, you're going to have to do it.
03:55The more pissed you are, the better, Alan.
03:58Yeah, I'll definitely have a few and a few more if Newcastle win.
04:03Wonderful stuff.
04:04Benjamin, who should play left wing and left back for Newcastle with Gordon and Hall out?
04:10They're big losses, aren't they?
04:12Yeah, big losses, yeah, because Lewis Hall's had a really, really good season.
04:17Anthony Gordon might not have been in the form that he, or playing as well as he can do,
04:23but he's still a threat.
04:24So there'll be a big miss.
04:26But I think what he'll do is he'll put Trippier right back and Liver and Mento left back.
04:32If it was me, I'd probably play Harvey Barnes on the left-hand side.
04:37Murphy and Isak, yeah.
04:40And the three in midfield, if they're fit, would be Bruno, Joel Linton and Tonali.
04:47Would you not go with a target at left back?
04:50I know Liver and Mento's been good this season, obviously.
04:53Trippier's always dependable.
04:55You know, just for that left foot, or would you prefer Liver and Mento and Trippier?
04:59I think with Liver and Mento's pace, I think that's why he'll stick him in at left back.
05:07And against Mo Salah, he's going to have to have a good game, isn't he?
05:11No pressure.
05:12No pressure at all.
05:14Got nothing to lose.
05:16Except for the final.
05:19Imagine how grumpy Al's going to be if Newcastle lose again.
05:24Oh my word.
05:25It's going to be an emotional rollercoaster, that's for sure.
05:28I think we're all rooting for you, Al.
05:30I think most football fans in the country will look at it this season and go,
05:35well, Liverpool have won the league.
05:37Perhaps Newcastle can win a trophy finally.
05:40Except for Sunderland fans, obviously.
05:42Yeah, exactly.
05:43How long has it been again, Al?
05:4570 years domestically.
05:4770 years?!
05:481955 was the last time they won a domestic trophy, the FA Cup.
05:52Were you there, Al?
05:57Domestic trophy.
05:58I'm not sure what this has got to do with anything, but Kayleigh Whaley.
06:02There's someone making these names up.
06:04Mason Jason and Kayleigh Whaley.
06:06Mason Jason and Kayleigh Whaley.
06:09When did Alan decide to shave it all off and call it a day?
06:14I presume he means the island that he used to persist with at the top of your head.
06:17You should have told me what a prat I looked at that island, by the way.
06:20I was hanging on and hanging on and hanging on, wasn't I?
06:23It should have come off a lot earlier than it did.
06:26I've been looking at Alistair Campbell quite a bit lately, you know, from the rest of his politics.
06:30He's got to make that call at some point.
06:32By the way, before you go on, I don't know if you guys listen to the rest of his politics,
06:37but we need to talk about game because those boys are sensational.
06:42Oh my God.
06:44I listen to their pod as soon as it comes out.
06:47They're absolutely amazing.
06:49You know that?
06:50And I don't even like politics.
06:51I just like listening to them too.
06:54You educate yourself by listening, don't you?
06:56Correct.
06:57Did you hear what he said then?
06:58We need to up our game.
07:00Have a look in the fucking mirror, will you?
07:12Here's a nice question.
07:15Simon, would Alan, in his prime, put himself ahead of Isak in the current Newcastle 11?
07:23I mean, Isak's a good player, but come on, guys.
07:29Yes!
07:30Boom!
07:34I think you could play together.
07:36I was just about to say that.
07:37I wouldn't mind playing up top with him, yeah.
07:38Al, can I just ask you quickly?
07:40You know when the ball used to go up to you?
07:42Obviously, I remember he was more of a target man,
07:46but a lot of my friends, or my dad and all that,
07:50used to say he was really good.
07:52Technique as well, you know?
07:54Like, you know the little layoffs and all that,
07:56and the round the corners?
07:57He said you had them in your locker.
07:59He's a cheeky...
08:01My dad used to...
08:05What a dick he is.
08:07You, not your dad, I mean.
08:10You were good at, like, the technique and all.
08:14You see, that's bad.
08:15I went to my old club, Premier League thing,
08:19that I went to my old club that I played in Leicester
08:22when I grew up, like, you know, under 12, under 13, so on,
08:27until I left for Leicester City, a club called Elston Park.
08:30And I went there a few years ago to open a pavilion,
08:33and they had all the different ages playing on the pitches,
08:36and I went round meeting them.
08:38This little lad came up.
08:39He must have been about, I don't know, 9, 10.
08:42He went, oh, Gary, he went,
08:44my granddad used to play with me.
08:47Oh, shit!
08:50That's when you know you're getting on with it.
08:52It's awful when you say my dad.
08:54I know.
08:55My granddad.
08:57It's like a knife in the back, it really was.
09:01MrGreenBiscuit, the names are good this week, aren't they?
09:04MrGreenBiscuit asks,
09:05what did you do with your runners-up medals?
09:09Actually, I don't know.
09:10I don't even know where they are.
09:11Mike has got his behind him, hasn't he?
09:13No, you know what?
09:15I have no idea where mine are.
09:16I've put my medals somewhere.
09:18I've hidden them, but I can't find,
09:19I don't remember where I've hidden them.
09:21I'm a bit like that.
09:22Yeah.
09:23I don't know where all my stuff is.
09:24I don't know where they are, no.
09:25No idea.
09:26No idea.
09:27Certainly won't be searching hard for the runners-up medals.
09:30Yeah.
09:31Time for us to take a quick break,
09:33and we'll be back in a moment.
09:39Welcome back to the Rest is Football question and answer episode
09:42with Mike, Alan and me.
09:44Gary's question here from Michael Hughes.
09:49If you had to go on holiday together to a country
09:51that none of you have ever been to before,
09:54where would you go?
09:55Blimey, that's difficult because we've got to work out
09:57where we've not been.
09:59I've not been to India.
10:00Have you?
10:01Yeah, I've been to India.
10:02Yeah, I thought you probably have.
10:03A few times, yeah.
10:04Where else have I not been that I'd really like to go?
10:07Argentina?
10:08I've been there.
10:09I was there with Diego, weren't I?
10:10Filming.
10:11Peru.
10:12Have you been to Peru?
10:13No, that's a good shout.
10:14No.
10:15Peru looks amazing.
10:16Yeah, great stories of that.
10:18Nobby Solano always tells me how great he was in there.
10:23Little Peruvian, wasn't he?
10:24Remember Nobby Solano?
10:25What a great little player he was.
10:26Is it Lima?
10:27Lima, is it the capital of Peru?
10:29Lima, yeah.
10:30What about Colombia?
10:31Colombia.
10:32Colombia, well, that might be a bit...
10:34We might have a right few days up in there, lads.
10:37We might lose you in Colombia.
10:39I don't think you'd ever come back.
10:42That takes us on nicely actually to Nathan Cheshire.
10:45Best story from travelling to an away day in Europe?
10:50I think the thing with those things is that as a footballer,
10:53you get on a bus, you fly on a plane, you get on a bus,
10:57you go to a hotel.
10:59You might have a training session the night before a game
11:02and then you've got a game the next night
11:04and then as soon as the game is finished, you're on a bus
11:06and you go on a plane.
11:07Correct, yeah.
11:08And nothing ever happens, does it?
11:09Nothing.
11:10Nothing ever happens.
11:11So boring.
11:12It's just trampling.
11:14It is, yeah.
11:15Sorry to disappoint you, Nathan.
11:17I would love to give you a story about away days and all that,
11:21but it was too strict.
11:23When you're playing in Europe especially,
11:27you've got no time to do anything.
11:29Apart from when you go to the Far East with England on tour
11:33at the end of the season.
11:34Now you're talking.
11:35That story.
11:36The dentist's chair.
11:37The dentist's chair, yeah.
11:39Goodness me.
11:40Can you believe that Alan was involved in that, Micah?
11:43Well, I was there, but I wasn't.
11:45I'd just seen the drinks being poured down people's throats
11:49in that dentist's chair.
11:51I mean, can you imagine?
11:53The front page of every single newspaper.
11:57It was unbelievable.
11:59The way Terry Venables handled it, you know, as a manager,
12:02he was amazing.
12:04He looked after all of us and protected everyone.
12:07I mean, obviously he was really angry and disappointed,
12:10but we're about to go into a major tournament at home at Wembley
12:13and all our games at Wembley.
12:15What were you doing out there?
12:16Why would you go there when the tournament's in England?
12:19Yeah, there was a game in Hong Kong.
12:21I think there was a game in China as well.
12:25Yeah, so we had two games leading up there,
12:28and it was just one of those nights.
12:31I think it was towards the end of the trip, and he said,
12:34just go and have a few beers and be in by 1 o'clock
12:37or something like that.
12:38And then you know what it's like, don't you?
12:40And he used to say, go and have a few beers.
12:43But you know when to go home.
12:44You're very sensible, aren't you?
12:46If you smell trouble, straight to bed.
12:50But yeah, that was the biggest story, I think, on away trips, yeah.
12:54Yeah, that's definitely one of the great stories.
12:57But it wasn't quite a European trip, but it was a trip nevertheless.
13:00Oliver Smith, what's your football guilty pleasure?
13:04What's that mean?
13:05I don't know.
13:06Well, guilty pleasure is normally the TV show, isn't it,
13:08or something, or a snack that you like.
13:12But a football guilty pleasure.
13:15Fantasy football, Mike?
13:17That's 100% fantasy football.
13:20But although I quite like shithousery.
13:24You know when you're in the tunnel or there's a bit of back and forth.
13:29It's all too nice now, football, isn't it?
13:31I like a little bit of argy-bargy.
13:34I don't want any argy-bargy with you.
13:36Thank you very much, Micah.
13:38I'm terrified.
13:39John Roberts, I think Micah might win this one.
13:42The weirdest purchase when you became a footballer?
13:46Micah, over to you.
13:49I must say, you look back at old pictures, don't you?
13:52And one or two of the outfits that I chose to buy,
13:56I remember one, I think it was a Versace number.
13:59I don't know what on earth possessed me to spend that kind of dough on.
14:03It was like a black jacket with almost not a zebra pattern on the front.
14:08But occasionally the picture crops up somewhere and I think,
14:12oh, I might have been wearing something.
14:16It might have been the 1990 World Cup final
14:20when I went with Bobby Robson to the game.
14:23It might have been that.
14:24It was dreadful.
14:25Dreadful.
14:27Have you seen the picture of me in my,
14:30it was like the, I don't know what colour,
14:32it was like a suit when we went for World Play of the Year.
14:36It was me, George Way and Ronaldo.
14:38Have you seen the state of the suit that I'm wearing?
14:42Honestly, it's like five sizes too big for me.
14:45And it's like, oh, and I look the same as you.
14:47I look at the thing.
14:48What an, how on earth did anyone let you go out dressed like that?
14:51What were we thinking?
14:53What were we thinking?
14:54Mike is, Mike is a fashion god,
14:57but you must have made some odd purchases, Mike.
15:02I've had all sorts of nonsense,
15:04but do you remember Jacob & Co watches?
15:07Yeah, yeah.
15:08With all the diamonds in.
15:10Oh my God.
15:12You went full in with that, did you?
15:14I went full in.
15:15Have you still got it?
15:16I've still got it.
15:18Except that the watch is ruined.
15:21I mean, the diamonds don't even look real, to be honest.
15:25And Andy Cole pulled me, didn't he?
15:27He said, he used to call me topper, topper,
15:31because I used to always go over the top of people in training, apparently.
15:36He just looked at me in disgust and said,
15:39what on God's earth are you doing?
15:42He said, you're buying a 20 grand watch,
15:45and you've not even got a house.
15:52And from that day, I was like, you know what?
15:55At the time I was thinking, who's this guy thinking he is?
15:58It's my money, I'll do what I want.
16:00But then you go home and think about it,
16:02and he's actually right.
16:05Alan, producer John has sent the picture of you.
16:09Ronaldo, Brazilian Ronaldo.
16:10Oh, yeah.
16:11Look at the state of that suit.
16:13It's hanging off me.
16:17You know what?
16:18The suit is the tie.
16:19What is a tie?
16:21Oh, my God.
16:22Wow.
16:23Terrible.
16:24Look how high my strides are, my trousers.
16:27Did you go for a gold tie because you thought you were going to win?
16:30Oh, God.
16:31Look at the state.
16:32Look at the body.
16:34You're in good company there.
16:36You're in good company there.
16:38You really are.
16:39Two great players, Lee, weren't they?
16:41Oh, wow.
16:42Final question from Rex Davids.
16:47What has been your funniest interaction with fans in public or in stadiums?
16:53I'm going to tell a story that Lee Dixon told me.
16:57And apologies, Dicko, for stealing your story,
17:00but I'll give you absolute credit for it
17:02because it's absolutely superb.
17:04He was playing at West Ham at Upton Park for Arsenal.
17:10And, you know, you used to get a bit of abuse from the stands there
17:13from various people.
17:15And he always said, oh, I always ignored it, always ignored it.
17:17He said, no, I was playing this game and I think someone got injured
17:22or there was a little bit of a delay in play
17:24and there was going to be a throw in.
17:25And he said, I was on the side waiting.
17:27He said, someone shouted, someone shouted.
17:30Forgive my language.
17:32He said, someone shouted out, Dixon, Dixon, you're a useless ****.
17:43So he said, I looked at him.
17:45He said, I was going to ignore it.
17:46He said, and I looked at it.
17:47And the fella, he said, he's got his little boys on his lap,
17:50like six years old kid or something like that.
17:52And he says, I kind of snapped.
17:54I said, why do you say that in front of your lad?
17:56And he said, don't worry about him.
17:57He thinks you're a useless **** as well.
18:01We should probably beep the C word because some people don't like it.
18:09We're not beating that then, Mike, yeah?
18:11We're not beating that.
18:12You can have that.
18:13Yeah, it's a good story from Lee Dixon.
18:15Brilliant.
18:16OK, that's it for this episode.
18:18Thank you once again for your questions.
18:20We'll be back on Friday when we'll discuss things all Champions League
18:25and see who goes through to the quarterfinals.
18:27Bye from me.
18:28Goodbye from me.
18:29Goodbye from me.