Hi there, welcome along. This is the Goals on Sunday podcast.

It is indeed, yeah, Manchester City. I've surrendered the title to Liverpool after that two-two draw with Crystal Palace.

Everton got themselves a good point at West Ham. Arsenal got paid back by Sheffield United, who just go from strength to strength strength and we'll be talking our guest career.

Our guest is.

Jonian Lescott.

The legend there is.

He's got some hidden talents.

He totally has.

Stay tuned for that.

And of course, Paul Tierney becomes the first referee to consult the monitor on pitch side.

Welcome along, Joian Lescott.

Yeah, great to see you.

Good.

Good.

All good. Yeah, great to see you. Good, good, yeah. All good. Yeah, good, thank you, good. Great. Have you accepted your new life now? Yeah, it was hard at the start, I'm not going to lie. I didn't kind of retire as early as I would have hoped. I wanted one more season. I was meant to prepare after that season, but the options weren't great to be fair, going into that season. So I kind of took it upon myself with advice from friends and family that it was probably the right time. That's interesting because a lot of people are talking about that at the moment, aren't they? How you get from one place to another in terms of your end of your career, what you do next? I mean, you're getting into the media though. Yeah, doing some media stuff, doing various bits and pieces to be fair and enjoying all

aspects of it, but going back to that stage and that part of my life.

I kind of underestimated how important the routine was as a player, speaking to kind of all players now that are coming towards the end.

I think we just assume it's the same. Everyone else's lives around you continue as it has. And we've got used to being told where to be, what time to be there and what to do. And then when that stops, it's okay for a summer four weeks. But then when you see everyone... It never stops. My wife tells me all the time, what to be and what to do, that sense. But in terms of the like the work side of things, I was kind of underestimated how used to that I was. And is it the camaraderie as well? You know, you're with your teammates every day. People say that. I didn't miss that as much. Not in a bad way, but I've got a lot of friends that I've brought with. Yeah, they did it, yeah. I still get messages about that, say the same things. But in regards to that, most of my friends are friends I've grew up with, so I kind of have that anyway. But yeah, it was nice, obviously. I enjoyed every minute of it and would go back again tomorrow if you could start it all again but I said I'm enjoying life right now

Do you get to go to a lot of games at the moment? Yeah, various games. I try not to work even though it sounds funny I've worked the last couple weekends

But I try not to work as much on the weekends due to watching kids play football

But yeah, I was at Sheffwoodnesday blackburn yesterday part of my role at

cities um helping um develop mentor the players on loan there's a group of um so who were you watching

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