Gary Lineker
Eddie Hearn: No Passion, No Point
BBC
4.4 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
One of the World’s best-known sports promoters Eddie Hearn chats to some of the biggest names in sport, entertainment and business. This series includes in-depth interviews with Frank Lampard, Maya Jama and Ant Middleton. Eddie learns about their passions, what gets them up in the morning, and how they dealt with the world grinding to a halt this year.
This week, Gary Lineker joins Eddie for a chat. They discuss his move from footballer into pundit, into presenter, how Gary doubted his own ability as a player, and how much the game has changed since he was playing.
No Passion, No Point is produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies, and is a BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 5 Live. Listen now on BBC Sounds.
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| 0:00.0 | For all things football, |
| 0:03.0 | Wow, you will not see a better goal. |
| 0:05.0 | BBC Sounds has got you covered. |
| 0:08.0 | These fans have got absolutely wild. |
| 0:10.0 | More live Premier League football than anywhere else on Five Live. |
| 0:15.0 | And there is the whistle and a brand new season begins. |
| 0:18.0 | And the Football Daily Podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Everything Football, every day. |
| 0:22.0 | For all the Premier League action and reaction, |
| 0:25.0 | listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. My name is Eddie Hearn and this is no passion, no point. |
| 0:45.0 | Well you may have heard that after probably about 600 tests at our boxing event, we had one person test positive for COVID-19 and it was me. |
| 0:57.0 | So I had to go home, 10 days of isolation in a room on my own, very boring, very painful. I was a little bit ill, didn't really have |
| 1:04.7 | any COVID symptoms, just felt a bit fluy. But back at it, back on my feet, I guess the most |
| 1:10.6 | frustrating thing was having to watch our shows whilst not being there |
| 1:14.4 | you know and just phoning people non-stop change this do that do that and it was great to watch |
| 1:18.7 | it on TV as a fan actually and just sort of understand what the viewers seeing and watching and feeling. |
| 1:24.1 | So I'm back now, some huge nights coming up till the end of the year and it was an interesting |
| 1:29.1 | experience. Actually looks like I gave my old man COVID as well. He was a little bit worse than me, |
| 1:33.7 | but he's good now, back on his feet and as he said to me, son, blind me, I gave you an empire and you gave me COVID-19. So, this week. |
| 1:45.0 | So, this week. |
| 1:47.0 | So this week Gary Linnaker's up. Of course ex-Ingum football and now major media personality. |
| 2:00.0 | I really want to know how does Gary Linnaker look so good. |
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