The Football Interview - Season 1

First aired: 8/16/2025 18 episodes

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Episodes

1. Wayne Rooney

Aired: 8/16/2025

Former England captain Wayne Rooney talks to Kelly Somers about his love of musicals, family life and more.

2. Marc Guéhi

Aired: 8/23/2025

Kelly Somers talks to Marc Guéhi, the Crystal Palace and England defender. They chat about his desire to keep on playing until he’s 40, how he’d love to be a WWE wrestler if he wasn’t a footballer, plus his love of drumming and music.

3. Jarrod Bowen

Aired: 8/30/2025

West Ham captain Jarrod Bowen talks about his Dad’s potato field ‘boot camp’, family life with wife Dani Dyer and winning the Europa Conference League trophy with the Hammers.

4. Lucy Bronze

Aired: 9/6/2025

Kelly Somers chats to England’s most decorated female footballer Lucy Bronze. She talks about being rejected by England as a young player, her proud Portuguese heritage, about winning Euro 2025 with the Lionesses and playing the entire tournament with a fractured leg.

5. Bruno Fernandes

Aired: 9/13/2025

Kelly Somers in conversation with Bruno Fernandes.

6. Alessia Russo

Aired: 9/20/2025

Kelly Somers speaks to Alessia Russo, two-time European champion with the Lionesses and a Champions League winner with Arsenal last season.

7. Andoni Iraola

Aired: 9/27/2025

Kelly Somers speaks to the Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola. He talks about life growing up in the Spanish city of San Sebastián, his love of reading books and why family is so important to him.

8. Hugo Ekitike

Aired: 10/4/2025

Kelly Somers sits down with the Liverpool forward, Hugo Ekitike. The Frenchman joined the Premier League champions this summer from Eintracht Frankfurt. He chats to Kelly about his childhood, playing alongside Mo Salah and how he loves to draw!

9. Brendan Rodgers

Aired: 10/18/2025

Kelly Somers talks to Brendan Rodgers about the 'unique pressure' of managing his current club, Celtic, his hope of managing 1,000 games, and how winning the Championship play-off with Swansea City in 2011 to take them to the Premier League propelled his career to another level.

10. Reece James

Aired: 10/25/2025

Kelly Somers talks to Chelsea captain and right back Reece James. They chat about how he began his footballing life as a striker, his love of fashion and his friendship with seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton.

11. Jordan Pickford

Aired: 11/1/2025

Kelly Somers speaks to Everton and England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford. They discuss ambitions for his club side this season, breaking Gordon Banks’s record for the number of consecutive clean sheets for England and his love of motocross.

12. Emma Hayes

Aired: 11/9/2025

In a wide-ranging interview, Kelly Somers speaks to Emma Hayes, the head coach of the United States women’s national team.

13. Bukayo Saka

Aired: 11/22/2025

Kelly Somers speaks to the Arsenal winger Bukayo Saka. They discuss why Arsenal was always going to be his club, his unusual breakfast choices when he was a kid, and learning the art of being a barista.

14. Ole Gunnar Solskjær

Aired: 11/29/2025

Kelly Somers in conversation with Ole Gunnar Solskjær.

15. Mauricio Pochettino

Aired: 12/6/2025

Kelly Somers in conversation with Mauricio Pochettino.

16. Bernardo Silva

Aired: 12/13/2025

Kelly Somers in conversation with Bernardo Silva.

17. Yaya Touré

Aired: 12/20/2025

Kelly Somers in conversation with Yaya Touré.

18. Best Bits

Aired: 12/27/2025

A selection of the best moments from Kelly Somers's interviews.