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In this week’s edition of The Football Interview, Kelly Somers speaks to former Premier League striker and pundit Alan Shearer. They speak about his Premier League goalscoring record, leaving Newcastle for Southampton as a teenager and winning the Premier League with Blackburn Rovers. They discuss Alan Shearer the football fan and the feeling when Newcastle won the League Cup in 2025, their first trophy in his lifetime.
TIME CODES
00:25: Propensity for timeliness
01:35: Leaving Newcastle for Southampton
02:50: Joining Blackburn Rovers
03:50: Premier League's record goalscorer
04:33: Playing for Newcastle United
07:34: The pressure of becoming Newcastle manager
08:43: Punditry
10:18: Passion for charity work
11:52: The best football matches witnessed
12:50: Being a fan post-playing career

John Murray, Alistair Bruce-Ball and Ian Dennis are back after the Carabao Cup quarter finals.
Ian still has the Captain Pugwash theme in his ears as he recounts a historic evening for Fleetwood.
Which member of the team has the same name as Martin Clunes' dogs?
We have lots of suggestions for rhyming slang footballers and an unusual Clash of the Commentators as John takes on Ian.
TIMECODES
01:00 Fleetwood + Captain Pugwash
05:00 League Cup reflections
09:45 Weekend fixtures
17:00 Rhyming slang
22:50 Footballing tongue twisters
28:55 Clash of the Commentators
38:55 Unintended Pub Name
41:05 Great Glossary of football
5 Live/BBC Sounds commentaries this weekend
SAT 1500: Manchester City v Brighton (Premier League) - 5 Live
SAT 1500: Coventry City v Sunderland (Premier League) - Sports Extra 2
SAT 1500: Motherwell v St Mirren (Scottish Premiership) - Sports Extra 3
SAT 1730: Tottenham v Crystal Palace (Premier League) - 5 Live
SAT 1730: Rangers v Aberdeen (Scottish League Cup) - Sports Extra 3
SUN 1200: London City Lionesses v Manchester City (Women’s Super League) - 5 Live
SUN 1300: Falkirk v Celtic (Scottish Premiership) - Sports Extra 2
SUN 1500: Hearts v Hibernian (Scottish League Cup) - Sports Extra 2
SUN 1630: Liverpool v Arsenal (Premier League) - 5 Live
Great Glossary of Football
DIVISION ONE
10 men behind the ball
50p head
Agricultural challenge,
Back of the net,
Back to square one,
Backside and elbows,
The Beautiful Game,
Booked,
Bosman,
Bullet header,
Buying a penalty,
Caretaker manager,
Channel of joy,
Checked and cleared,
Coupon buster,
Cross-come-shot
Cruyff Turn,
Cultured/educated left foot,
Dead-ball specialist,
Draught excluder,
Elastico/flip-flap,
False nine,
Fox in the box,
Game’s gone
Giving the goalkeeper the eyes,
Grub hunter,
Header
Head like a biscuit tin,
Head like a sheriff’s badge,
Head tennis,
Hibs it,
In a good moment,
In behind,
Lollipop,
Magic of the FA Cup,
“Make sure you watch Match of the Day tonight”
The Maradona,
Need one to get in off their backside,
Off their line,
Olimpico,
Onion bag,
Panenka,
Parachute payment,
Park the bus,
Perfect hat-trick,
Postage stamp,
Put his cap on it,
Rabona,
Roy of the Rovers stuff,
Schmeichel-style,
Scorpion kick,
Spursy,
Stick it in the mixer,
Sweeper keeper,
Taking it to the corner flag,
Target man,
Tiki-taka,
Tipped it over the bar
Towering header,
Trivela,
UEFA penalty,
Where the kookaburra sleeps,
Where the owl sleeps,
Where the spiders sleep,
You could have two goalkeepers in there and they still wouldn’t have saved it.

Rick & Lloyd are joined by Julien Laurens to discuss how Roberto De Zerbi is slowly moulding Spurs into his image – and after a blockbuster summer, Julien explains why he is undoubtedly the league’s most powerful manager. How far will this transformation go? Whisper it: could Spurs be last season’s Manchester United?
Elsewhere, Rick takes up the mantle from the Monday Night Club and finds out which player has scored the most ‘luxury’ goals this season and Lloyd is off to see Boca Juniors vs River Plate this weekend – otherwise known as the Superclásico, one of football’s fiercest rivalries. Oracle of South American football Tim Vickery tells him how to survive it. Or not.
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TIMECODES:
0:00 Rick wrong about Kane & Lloyd 'up close' with the Ballon d’Or
06:01 Tottenham Hotspur have been improving
7:58 Why Roberto De Zerbi has massive power at Spurs
10:41 Looking closer at De Zerbi’s style of play
13:25 Tottenham’s issues at number nine
17:49 Are Spurs… this season’s Man United?!
21:38 De Zerbi’s longer-term future
24:25 Crucial vs Luxury goals in the Premier League
30:04 Lloyd is off to the Superclásico
31:30 Why do Boca & River hate each other so much?
35:17 The brilliant language of the Superclásico
37:15 La Bombonera & local fans
41:56 Lloyd talks about living with hearing loss

Kelly Somers is joined by Andy Reid, Leon Osman & Ian Dennis to discuss Michael Carrick remaining in charge at Manchester United after eight games without a win, despite links to Eddie Howe and Julian Nagelsmann. Man Utd fan Scott Saunders gives the supporters’ reaction, while Raphael Honigstein discusses the Nagelsmann links.
Then, reaction to Harry Kane winning the Ballon d’Or - the first Englishman since Michael Owen in 2001. Former England teammate Conor Coady joins, with more from Honigstein on the reaction in Germany and at Bayern.
Finally, London City Lionesses CEO Martin Semmens on Alexia Putellas winning the Ballon d’Or Féminin for a third time after her move to the WSL.

Mark Chapman is joined by Chris Sutton, Andros Townsend and Adam Crafton.
With Michael Carrick on the brink, the panel discuss whether sacking him change anything for Manchester United - or was the damage done in the summer? Should fingers be pointed higher up? With Manchester United also the subject of an Amazon documentary, former Sunderland boss Simon Grayson joins the pod to explain what it's like having a camera crew inside a football club. On a more positive note - Aston Villa and Nicolas Jackson are flying after a sticky start, how does Unai Emery keep getting the best out of strikers?
01:49 - The latest Manchester United crisis
10:56 - Who's to blame?
28:19 - Simon Grayson on managing during "Sunderland 'Til I Die"
38:30 - Who should replace Carrick?
43:55 - Nicolas Jackson and Villa finding form