The Rest Is Football has become the first podcast to feature historic Premier League match footage.
Today sees the launch of a new weekly series, Premier League Greats: The Moments That Made Them.
This comes after Goalhanger secured worldwide rights to use Premier League action from every season since its launch in 1992 through to May last year, marking a significant first for podcasting.
The series will release every Wednesday until the end of the season and focuses on one Premier League legend per episode.
It will revisit five defining matches from that player’s career and explore the moments that shaped them, defined their legacy, and helped write Premier League history.
Across each episode, hosts Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards analyse why each match mattered, what it revealed about the player at that stage of their career, and share personal stories and first-hand insight from their own experiences playing alongside or against them.
The first episode centres on Arsenal icon Thierry Henry, with viewers on Spotify Video, YouTube and The Rest Is Football’s social channels able to watch the original match footage as it is discussed on screen for the first time.
Audio listeners will still receive the full episode as usual, but the addition of historic video marks a major expansion for the podcast, offering fans a new way to engage with iconic Premier League moments while keeping the familiar audio format intact.
Future episodes are planned focusing on David Beckham, Steven Gerrard, Eden Hazard, Harry Kane and Cristiano Ronaldo, with each designed to sit alongside the regular weekly episodes already released on The Rest Is Football feed.
Premier League Greats complements what has become one of the world’s biggest sports podcasts, with The Rest Is Football attracting more than seven million downloads each month and continuing to grow across audio, video and social platforms.
The podcast has also announced plans to launch as a daily television show on Netflix during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, extending its reach beyond podcasting and into mainstream sports broadcasting this year.
The move builds on recent rights deals that have already brought match action into the show, after football footage was added last summer following a licensing agreement covering all goals and key highlights from the FIFA Club World Cup.
This season, coverage has expanded further with LaLiga, featuring match action from Spain, including Real Madrid and Barcelona, underlining Goalhanger’s ambition to mix traditional sports broadcasting with podcast storytelling.
