Frank Lampard has agreed to appear as a special guest on The Rest Is Football Podcast on Netflix, which will broadcast daily from 6am starting June 10 and will be filmed at Times Square in New York.
People are searching for Frank Lampard now because the appearance marks his return to broadcasting during the World Cup after managerial duties at Coventry had kept him away from punditry.
The programme will bring Lampard together with Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, Micah Richards and Joe Cole, with special guests including Harry Maguire, Millie Bright, Patrick Vieira, Romesh Ranganathan and Niall Horan — a line-up designed to run through the tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Alan Shearer framed the scale of the project: "The World Cup is as big as it gets, and bringing The Rest Is Football to Netflix during the tournament is a brilliant opportunity to get stuck into the football properly." Micah Richards added, "I'm absolutely buzzing for this. World Cup, Netflix, New York and The Rest Is Football on a massive stage - what more could you want?" and said the show would mix "proper analysis, big opinions, dressing-room stories and, knowing us, plenty of laughs as well."
Lampard is no stranger to screens — he regularly featured as a television pundit after retiring and previously worked with the and Amazon — but earlier in 2024 his managerial duties at Coventry saw him step away from broadcasting commitments as the club pushed back into the top flight as Championship winners.
Coventry City chairman Doug King has publicly praised Lampard's work, saying, "He's done a fantastic job, it's been an incredible 18 months for us and for him," and stressing the scale of the achievement: "He's done huge things in his playing career but to get out of this league as champions without a parachute payment, from where we've come from, is a huge achievement nobody can take away from him." At the same time King warned of the churn elsewhere in the sport: "It's a bit disappointing clubs are appointing three or four managers a season."
That praise is where the choice becomes uneasy. Lampard is taking a visible, daily broadcast slot linked to the World Cup at the same moment his chairman has said he does not want to lose the manager who restored the club's status. King also noted, "Everybody is going to get linked with everything, it's a merry-go-round," underlining how public media work can feed speculation about a manager's future even when a club wants continuity.
The immediate consequence is concrete: viewers will see Lampard on screen when the show launches June 10 at 6am each day from Times Square. What remains unresolved is whether this summer role will coexist with his job at Coventry beyond occasional guest appearances — the announcement specifies his participation on the Netflix podcast but does not outline how, if at all, those commitments will fit around his managerial duties.
The next clear date is the programme's June 10 launch; that first daily episode will be the first public test of how Lampard balances a high-profile media presence while chairmen and supporters weigh the cost and benefit of his return to screens. Until the club or Lampard clarifies the schedule, the question of whether he will manage Coventry while taking on a World Cup broadcasting role is the story's open hinge.
