Gary Lineker’s Netflix World Cup is underway — but his rival is not the BBC

And there is banter, oh is there banter; little jibes at “Big Meeks” the “legend off the pitch”, throwing shade at Lineker continuing to live off his World Cup golden boot from 1986. The lads will be enjoying themselves, too, and tales of the New York nightlife, the “Cowboy Bar” in Miami and the “tequila bar” in Mexico City may be another recurring feature. But it’s a still essentially just a podcast, on TV. Whether anyone watches is largely irrelevant. Whether ‘The Rest is Football’ can produce a few seconds to cut through the noise is all that matters.