{"id":694460,"date":"2026-07-16T08:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694460\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:19:13","slug":"micah-richards-was-told-his-father-died-just-before-england-argentina-coverage-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694460\/","title":{"rendered":"Micah Richards was told his father died just before England-Argentina coverage started"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former England<\/a> footballer and World Cup pundit Micah Richards<\/a> was told of his father\u2019s death just before going on air for England\u2019s semi-final against Argentina.<\/p>\n

Richards, who won 13 caps for England, appeared alongside Joe Hart<\/a> and Wayne Rooney<\/a> on the BBC<\/a> as Thomas Tuchel<\/a>\u2019s side suffered a late 2-1 defeat.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the game the TV favourite revealed that he had been told of his dad Lincoln\u2019s death shortly before kickoff in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

\"MicahMicah Richards posted a picture of his dad to Instagram (Instagram\/@micahrichards)<\/p>\n

Writing on Instagram, Richards said: \u201cNot long before going on air today, I received the awful news that my father Lincoln had passed away. His death was unexpected, and he has left us all too soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was my greatest fan. He barely missed a game my entire life.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe would take me wherever I needed to go when I was a kid and he was the proudest parent possible during my professional career. It was so rare for him to not be by my side.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know how much watching England World Cup games means to everyone at home, and how the experience bonds families together across the generations, like nothing else.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know, particularly as a proud old-school Yorkshireman, dad would\u2019ve wanted the show to go on this evening. And so it did.<\/p>\n

\u201cThinking of my siblings and all my wider family today as we remember my father Lincoln, my hero and inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"GaryGary Lineker, Alan Shearer, and Micah Richards (PA)<\/p>\n

During the pre-match coverage BBC presenter Mark Chapman joked with Richards about former presenter Gary Lineker.<\/p>\n

Chapman exclaimed \u201cGary who?\u201d after the pundit made a comment about the former Match Of The Day host.<\/p>\n

A pre-match piece of analysis on Jude Bellingham showed him on a list of players with the most World Cup goals all scored inside the penalty area.<\/p>\n

The graphic showed the Real Madrid midfielder has scored seven goals from an average distance of 9.4 metres, while former England striker Lineker scored 10 from 7.3 metres.<\/p>\n

Speaking on BBC One, Richards quipped: \u201cOne thing I don\u2019t like on that list, another graphic that\u2019s got Gary Lineker on there.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just texted me now but he\u2019s dropping down the table. Thank God for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Laughing, Chapman replied: \u201cGary who? Joke! Joke! Before everybody piles on, joke. Goodness me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-694460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}