Disney+ has secured rights to Gary Neville’s The Overlap podcast content in a multimillion-pound agreement, intensifying competition with Gary Lineker’s Netflix-backed The Rest is Football. The deal matters because it brings a major independent football-media brand to a global streaming platform while retaining its established free YouTube audience.

Disney+ will show 40 episodes of Stick to Football, featuring Neville, Jamie Carragher, Jill Scott, Ian Wright and Roy Keane, plus 50 episodes of the new Stick to United with Wayne Rooney and Mark Goldbridge. It will also commission 20 additional Stick to Football episodes for Disney+ subscribers before wider release, and has acquired a Rooney family documentary; The Overlap says it attracts 38 million monthly YouTube views after reaching 2.2 billion cross-platform views in 2025.