Alan Shearer

Not that I can remember.

Yeah, it was good in a way to do it, but it was also because there was no jeopardy.

We went out, all went out, we took all the crew out and everyone out.

I booked a restaurant on Monday evening, Kaikai, in Newcastle.

Lovely, lovely Indian restaurant.

It was beautiful.

And we all went there Monday evening.

Had a couple of beers, a couple of glasses of wine.

We were really well looked after.

And then, yeah, we met up, or all met up Tuesday afternoon for the game.

But it was tough.

It's difficult without Jeopardy.

Well, what happened was that normally I do all the core comms for Amazon with the brilliant John Champion, who's superb.

And we normally do the team together in camera, in vision.

I normally do maybe one hit at pitch side with the rest of the pundits.

Then I sort of head up maybe...

35, 40 minutes before kickoff just to try and get ready for the game.

But yesterday, with it being Newcastle, it got me doing a little bit more.

So we're actually on air at 6.30, so 90 minutes before kickoff.

To build up for that game.