The 2026 World Cup's BEST Moments!

Well, I'm gonna start with something that really entertained not just me, but I think the whole country.

It's got to go down as one of the greatest [laughs] post-match interviews of all time, and it stars, you know, one of my all-time favorite players, Sir Harry, who wears his heart on his chest when he's playing, and who obviously screams and shouts and gets involved in singing Wonderwall after games.

And it's the interview he actually gave to the BBC following that victory against DR Congo.

Of course, he played a huge role in it.

And he comes out...

I, I've read the background to this because I know Kelly Somers, who's the BBC reporter, and she's very experienced now.

I think this is her fourth major campaign that she has been the England, um, reporter.

And she'd been in the tunnel, and she'd had a little word with Harry before the interview, and she says that he could speak [laughs] okay at, at that moment.

There was no suggestion that his voice had gone berserk.

But then, of course, they start this interview, and it's extraordinary.

I mean, it really is quite remarkable.

But what I love about it is that, A, I think Kelly handles it really well.

I know, you know, some people said to her afterwards, "Why didn't you stop the poor man? Can't speak." [laughs] But she keeps thinking that eventually he is gonna be able to start speaking and making sense.

But the best thing of all is Harry's reaction, because you, you just get a sense of what a lovely guy he is.

And, um, he, he probably, [laughs] he probably didn't realize he sounded quite as stupid as he did.

But to be fair, he kept on trying, [laughs] he kept on talking.

And then he would stop, and he would laugh because he realized it was ridiculous, and then he would start again, and it would get worse and worse.

And of course, all the memes subsequently followed that.

I don't know if you saw the one where they had him as a Muppet.

Uh, it's just magnificent.

And, and then he, he told Kelly afterwards, he went, [laughs] he went back into the dressing room after that and emerged a few minutes later and said he had thousands of messages on his phone.

A few were about the game, but the vast majority were about what many people, um, certainly back in the BBC studio afterwards said was the best interview of all time.

And I just thought after all the stress and the tension as well, Mark, we know what we're all going through, what we all went through during the World Cup.

To be able just to relax, for me to see again the human side of a player that I love and I worship and I respect as a footballer.

But more importantly, I really respect Harry Kane as a man.