Gary Lineker on England, Ethics, and the Best No. 9 in Football
Hawksbee and Jacobs Daily
talkSPORT
4.5 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Max Rushden and Charlie Baker step into the hot seats bringing you a packed podcast of football chat.
They are joined by England legend Gary Lineker to dive deep into all things World Cup. Gary gives his definitive predictions on exactly where the Three Lions will finish, who he expects to lift the trophy as tournament favorites, and reflects honestly on the ethical issues that have surrounded past World Cups.
Plus, as a man who knows a thing or two about elite goal-scoring, Gary explains why he believes Harry Kane is currently the absolute best number 9 in world football, and shares his candid thoughts on the prospect of Kane shattering his own historic England World Cup scoring record.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the H&J Daily, Max Rush and Charlie Baker with you on the woke Wednesdays. |
| 0:04.0 | And we had Gary Lineker on for two bits, Charlie. |
| 0:08.0 | I mean, a personal hero, Gary Lineker. |
| 0:11.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:12.0 | A personal hero, good-ed, a good old, nice guy. |
| 0:14.0 | And we covered lots of things. We covered his podcast. We covered, I tried to talk about mine. |
| 0:20.0 | We covered the World Cup. We covered the Premier League, the Champions League, match to the day, etc. We covered I tried to talk about mine. We covered the World Cup. We covered the Premier League, the |
| 0:22.5 | Champions League, match to the day, etc. |
| 0:24.4 | We also played the wheel of football, another |
| 0:26.5 | star, Ben the West Brom |
| 0:28.4 | fan. Would he |
| 0:30.5 | be defeated? You'll find out |
| 0:32.3 | on this podcast. |
| 0:40.6 | Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon, Charlie. Good afternoon, Max. Very nice to see you, actually. |
| 0:43.4 | Nice to see you. Very nice looking man, aren't you? Very nice looking. |
| 0:46.3 | Do you know what? I mean, it's very kind of me to say. I'm not talking about how nice looking |
| 0:50.3 | I am. It's not for me to say. Well, the previous show might have had two people saying, |
| 0:56.3 | you know what, I think I am, yeah, the best thing in the whole world. |
| 1:11.0 | I'm the best thing ever. No, I, on my podcast, what did you do yesterday? Oh, yeah. Ben Elton on. Ben Elton. Oh, yeah. The podcast, if you haven't heard it, is we asked people what they did yesterday in absolutely excruciating detail. Very good. |
| 1:11.5 | But it's very, you were a very good guest on it, Chuck. |
| 1:13.4 | Thank you, Matt. |
| 1:14.3 | But Bennett. The podcast, if you haven't heard it, is we asked people what they did yesterday in absolutely excruciating detail. |
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