Gary Lineker
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The pre-World Cup friend.
It is weird because you don't really do anything different.
And it's very important that you don't do anything differently.
Yes.
Yeah.
My favourite bit was prior to the game when Bobby Robson, who was, let's say his team talks went on a bit.
Good thing.
Very long.
So he normally did about 45 minutes and everyone, we used to call him Mogadon, we were nodding off to him.
I mean, he was lovely.
You'd run through a brick wall for him, but he did go on a bit in his team meetings.
And he always had this flip chart next to him.
And prior to this game, we'd had a bad start.
We were getting pilloried at home and he was getting dog's abuse from everywhere.
Not that we're aware of it that much because we were in Mexico and there was no social media, thankfully.
So he gets us in this room before, as he would do on a match day, and he goes...
Right, boys.
He said, you know what you've got to do today in Poland.
I could reel off all the possible permutations of results, he said, but you don't need to see that.
You know what you've got to do.