The Rest is Football
3.9/5
Critic Rating
Join Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards for a new podcast bringing strong opinions on all the latest stories from the world of football.Hosted by three men who’ve been there and done it at the highest level of the game, The Rest is Football combines topical debate with outrageous tales from their careers.The essential new podcast for football fans.
Critic Reviews
Score: 4.8
Patricia Nicol • The Times UK • Aug 20, 2023
"...it offers intelligent analysis and a newsy nimbleness...Some minor quibbles about sound quality aside, it’s great: confident, cohesive, illuminating, incisive, often humorous. Sort out the changing-room audio and this high-scoring show might remain at the top of the league all season. As a podcast presenter and producer, Lineker is irrefutably at the top of his game."
Score: 3
Will Lloyd • New Statesman • Aug 16, 2023
"What you actually get is a stale standard of analysis that barely hovers above that offered by the drunkest bar-propper in your local pub. Lineker, genial and almost self-aware. Shearer, bottomlessly dull. Richards, dopey and guffawing."
Score: 3.5
Fiona Sturges • Financial Times • Aug 13, 2023
"I should say that I am clueless about football and therefore not this series’ target audience. But I do listen to a lot of podcasts and this one has some work to do. There is the fact that it has three hosts, which is one too many when it comes to free-range conversations...But the biggest problem is the sound quality, which is echoey and uneven, and at times sounds as if they are broadcasting from deep inside a cave. So would it kill them to invest in some proper sound gear?"
Score: 5
Hollie Richardson • The Guardian • Aug 10, 2023
"A football pundit podcast might not be groundbreaking, but this one has some of the best voices going...Oh, and a fair bit on the actual game."
Score: 3
James Marriot • The Times UK • Aug 7, 2023
"The three men have a good rapport. Shearer is wryly likeable. Using three hosts rather than the traditional Goalhanger format of just two blokes chatting makes things feel a bit crowded...with three hosts, conversations don’t flow and develop the same way. Unstructured podcasts like this take a while to find their rhythm. Still, it’s expertly done. If anyone knows how to make a show like this it’s Gary Lineker, footballer-turned-podcasting-magnate."
