The Moment: Gary Lineker on his son's battle with leukaemia

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic Football Podcast will return on Monday 13th June, but in the meantime we wanted to give you a taste of our new series 'The Moment with Kelly Cates and Geoff Thomas' Kelly and Geoff are joined by Gary Lineker who opens up about his son George's battle with leukaemia as a very young baby, as he reflects upon those days spent with George in hospital in 1992 and the lasting impact they made. Check out the rest of the series, including interviews with Troy Townsend, Luke Chadwick and more, by searching for ‘The Moment’ in your usual podcast provider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	dot credit you case slash claims. Hello everyone football never sleeps and indeed the Athletic Football Podcast will return for its summer run on Monday the 13th of June.
0:37.5	But in the meantime we wanted to give you a taste of another series from the Athletic Podcast Network called The Moment with Kelly Cates and Jeff Thomas.
0:45.6	In this episode, Kelly and Jeff were joined by Gary Linica, who opened up about his son George's
0:50.0	battle with leukemia as a baby.
0:52.4	Gary reflects upon those days spent with Georgian Hospital back
0:55.0	in 1992 and the lasting impact that they made.
0:58.6	We'll be dropping other episodes from the moment,
1:03.2	head on this feed over the coming days, but to listen to the full series,
1:03.8	head to podfollow.com.
1:05.4	The Athletic.
1:11.8	Can you remember the one moment that changed your life forever?
1:15.0	The moment that put everything in perspective.
1:19.0	I'm Kelly Cates.
1:21.0	And I'm Jeff Thomas and in this series we're sharing the stories of sports people
1:27.3	who've experienced and overcome moments of adversity. This is the moment.
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