Gary Lineker
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Definitely.
We got in early and we got lucky with obviously one or two of our... The first ones were... The first one was with me and Danny Baker, but then... What was it called?
Behind closed doors.
Behind closed doors.
And then we... Was that an always-on, as they call it?
No.
No, we were just... We did two or three series.
Was it during lockdown?
It started just... It started before that.
It was about 2016, 17.
And what was the premise?
It was footballer meets footballer fan.
And so it was different stories and letters, people sending in questions and stuff.
We thought something in this did quite well.
We got a book deal.
And then...
Tony, my business partner at the time, there's three of us now, but at the time it was just Tony and myself.
Tony Pastor.
And he was in a bookshop looking for a World War II book because he's a massive World War II aficionado.
And he said four of the top ten books or something were World War II books.