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The Best Bits of the Stars of The Overlap
As the Stars of The Overlap visit 3Arena later this month, we've taken a trip down memory lane to look at some of the cast's best moments.
It’s been over 12 years since Jamie Carragher first joined Gary Neville alongside Ed Chamberlain on Monday Night Football. I don’t think anyone tuning in to that Manchester City and Newcastle United game knew quite what they were in for. Two former rivals, whom we’d seen clash for the best part of two decades, now sat in suits analysing a game together for our entertainment.
It could have fallen flat and failed so unspectacularly that they were replaced and we hardly remember they ever presented. But the combination was magic and the addition of guest pundits like Roy Keane, Thierry Henry and Wayne Rooney only saw the phenomenon grow.
Now starring in The Overlap’s Stick To Football show alongside Jill Scott, Ian Wright and Roy Keane, the duo have been a part of their fair share of hilarious moments. There’s too many to list all of them, but we’ve collected a few of our favourites from over the years.
The Walk Away
While hosting the pre-match coverage of a Friday Night Football tie between Southampton and Liverpool, both Carragher and Neville left host Kelly Cates in shock as they turned around mid-sentence and walked towards the tunnel continuing their conversation. Cates, left stood at the podium, was not the only one baffled by the incident as it sparked both confused and hilarious reactions online.
Never one to let the boys get the better of her, Cates got the last laugh a week later, walking away from the pair at the podium while previewing the weekends games with the line “Don’t you dare turn you back”.
Roy Keane’s 3 Most Overrated Things
Life advice from Roy Keane? Why not? While on The Overlap’s Stick To Football show, the former Ireland international goes through the three things he thinks are the most overrated in life. In typical Roy Keane fashion, they are not what you would expect.
What are his three things? Parties, smiling and fireworks… Never change Roy.
David Beckham tests how well he knows Gary Neville
Jamie Carragher puts David Beckham’s Neville knowledge to the test by breaking out an interview from a magazine in 1996. Beckham and the rest of the table try to guess how a then 21 year old Gary would have answered.
The interview answers the questions you didn’t know you needed answering like who got the most attention from girls: Gary or Phil, how Gary would spend his last day if the world was ending and who Gary’s ideal date would be.
Patrick Vieira explains the tunnel incident
Appearing as a guest on Stick To Football, Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira details his thought process behind the now infamous confrontation between himself and Roy Keane at Highbury, and the events with Gary Neville that sparked it.
Mincing no words, the Frenchman admits that he had planned to confront Gary during the pre-match warm-up before stating “I didn’t like you at all… I couldn’t stand you”. When pressed on whether he meant Manchester United or Gary Neville specifically, he clarifies that he meant Neville, which Gary celebrated as “a massive victory”.
“Leave the football before the football leaves you”
On a Monday Night Football following Crystal Palace’s 4-0 win against Manchester United, Carragher gave new life to an old quote when questioning Casemiro’s ability to play at the highest level: “Leave the football before the football leaves you. The football has left him.”
The line has become an iconic quote for football fans around the world, taking on a more humourous reputation than intended when Carragher first heard it. A story with a happy ending, Carragher admitted later that, following an improvement in Casemiro’s form, “the football had not left him”.
“This was the banker”
Following José Mourinho’s sacking from Manchester United in 2018, Gary Neville appeared on The Debate and dropped his own iconic line. Discussing how José was intended to be a safe appointment as manager, Neville gave football fans a memorable quote that would be repeated for years; “This was the no-brainer. This was the banker. This was the one that couldn’t fail. This was the one that’s never failed.”
It didn’t take long for football fans to take this line and run with it, spinning it into a thousand new jokes and is always at the ready for the next mishap that comes along.
