Gary Lineker
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That is the secret to scoring goals, and I understood that.
So by the time it gets to the perfect ball comes, you go, it's a tap-in, it's amazing.
It's always like easy goals, like you just said, just stick your leg out, but...
I always wondered why everybody didn't get it.
Seems quite simple when you put it like that.
I think it's simple.
People say, can you teach that or does it have to be instinct?
I don't think it's instinct.
I've had a chat with Thomas Muller, you know, the famous German brilliant goal scorer.
And he said exactly the same thing.
I saw him do an interview and he was saying exactly about the laws of probability and the maths of it.
And I thought, yeah, someone gets it.
Yeah, I'd gone four or five games without a goal for England before the World Cup and then didn't score in the first two.
So I think I was about six games without a goal.
And I thought Bobby would leave me out.
Yeah, lovely guy, no longer with us sadly.
But he stuck with me.
Well, I'd been scoring for England prior to that in the qualifiers.
I was banging the goals for England.
And then it was just a little dry spell at the end of the season.