Spain Win the World Cup, Messi’s Farewell & Jude Joins the Elite! | Stick to Football EP 144 artwork

Spain Win the World Cup, Messi’s Farewell & Jude Joins the Elite! | Stick to Football EP 144

Stick to Football

July 20, 2026

Welcome back to Stick to Football for the final episode of our World Cup series, brought to you by Sky Bet. We kick off with Spain claiming their second World Cup title in what was a fairly one-sided final.
Speakers: Gary Neville, Roy Keane, Micah Richards
**Gary Neville** (0:00)
Just before we get started, I just wanted to say a big thank you to our partner Sky Bet, and please don't forget to subscribe if you like. I hope you enjoy this episode. I like the snacks.
It must be my time in Spain that I got used to Spanish food.

**Roy Keane** (0:15)
We're the next World Cup.

**Gary Neville** (0:16)
The next World Cup in Spain. There you go. I'm almost a resident.
I'm almost a resident of the country. Yes, Jack.

**Micah Richards** (0:25)
Boom.

**Gary Neville** (0:27)
Look, we just have to buy them off with strawberry milkshakes. We just have to buy Roy and Ritey off with short strawberry milkshakes. Simple as that.

**Micah Richards** (0:37)
You know guys, how are we doing?

**SPEAKER_4** (0:38)
I didn't.

**Gary Neville** (0:41)
Right.

**Micah Richards** (0:41)
Hey, I was here.
What was up? I'm so excited.

**Gary Neville** (0:46)
Exactly. Shake, shack, milkshake.

**Micah Richards** (0:50)
I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited.
I'm so excited. I'm so excited to see.

**Gary Neville** (0:56)
Oh. I wanna get out while we...

**Micah Richards** (0:59)
Is that his way?

**Gary Neville** (1:00)
No. Because tramps like us...

**SPEAKER_5** (1:02)
We have no chance of getting in.

**Micah Richards** (1:04)
Okay.

**Gary Neville** (1:05)
Baby, we were born to run. Well, a bit of happiness, a bit of sadness, a bit of everything.

**Micah Richards** (1:18)
Yeah, I'm delighted that Argentina didn't win. I'm sad because I didn't like to see Messi crying like that. You saw what it meant to him. But I'm quite happy for Spain.

**Gary Neville** (1:30)
Yeah.

**Micah Richards** (1:31)
And I don't think that the way Argentina played today, I think maybe the three different extra time games, 120 minutes, Messi played all of those. It's just done, isn't it? It's finished.

**Gary Neville** (1:44)
Both the centre-halves are going off.

**Micah Richards** (1:46)
Going off, yeah.

**Gary Neville** (1:48)
Fernandes getting sent off.

**Micah Richards** (1:49)
Well, that's just crazy.

**Gary Neville** (1:52)
They had a lot go against them, to be fair.

**Micah Richards** (1:54)
Yeah, but when you say go against them, that's not going against them.

**Gary Neville** (1:56)
No, no.

**Micah Richards** (1:56)
That's just crazy.

**Gary Neville** (1:58)
No, what I mean is if you're the manager, you'd be like, your two centre-halves go off, and one of your players that's experienced gets sent off, you're like...

**Micah Richards** (2:05)
If Messi goes in the dressing room and if he's that player, to say to somebody what they've done, and because he's the captain, and you're going to dig someone out, you're probably digging him out. You're on a yellow, what are you doing? But like I said, it's like Parade. It's like they didn't care that they were on a yellow. It's like they knew something we didn't like. It doesn't matter. We're not going to get booked for it. It was crazy some of the challenges they were doing. It's crazy.
Mm, I love it.

**Gary Neville** (2:34)
You're smart, Roy. You're smart.

**Micah Richards** (2:36)
We said you were just coming. Just went and freshened up.

**Roy Keane** (2:40)
Roll all my stuff back over.

**Micah Richards** (2:42)
Everything.

**Gary Neville** (2:46)
You'll be warm up on that roof.

**Micah Richards** (2:48)
Let's have a feel of that. It's a great ball.
I would have been a good... Is that the proper size one?

**Gary Neville** (2:56)
Is that the size of one, that?

**Micah Richards** (2:59)
Is it the real one? Is this the real one? Because this is like plastic, like...

**Roy Keane** (3:02)
Yeah, that's not real.

**Micah Richards** (3:04)
The real one's got proper...

**Roy Keane** (3:06)
It's a good topic. What position would you have been?

**Micah Richards** (3:08)
I think I'd want to be a catcher.

**Gary Neville** (3:11)
What is that?

**Micah Richards** (3:11)
A wide receiver?

**Gary Neville** (3:14)
Can't you have a defender out wide? You can't, obviously you have to be a defender out wide.

**Micah Richards** (3:18)
Oh, it's because you have to do those moves and then you have to...

**Gary Neville** (3:20)
Yeah, be full back. Oh, I'll tell you what, by the way, my throw, I used to be able to throw it pretty well.

**Micah Richards** (3:25)
Roy's got a better throw. Come on, let me see. No, that weren't a good throw.

**Roy Keane** (3:31)
I do.

**Micah Richards** (3:32)
That was rubbish. That was really bad.

**Roy Keane** (3:33)
In orders, like, I've asked you your position, not one of you said what position.

**Micah Richards** (3:36)
You know what I mean?

**Gary Neville** (3:37)
Does your mind take you two years?

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