Francis’ EMBARRASSING blunder with Alisha Lehmann | Trainspotting With Francis Bourgeois | Channel 4

ever had a pork pie maybe it's not the best thing you know, come on, hi, I'm Francis Bourgeois and this is Trainspotting with Francis Bourgeois. This is a show where I share my passion for Trainspotting with celebrities. If you enjoy this episode, hit the Subscribe Button I'm here today at Tamworth Station and I'm about to meet soccer superstar Alicia Layman, who plays for the Swiss national team and Aston Villa. I couldn't wait to meet Alicia, she is one of the most famous women. world footballers and was excited to experience a truly British day. Pleased to meet you.

Welcome to Tamworth. Thank you so much. Starting in glorious Tamworth. I wanted to show Alicia some of the action on the West Coast mainline before heading to a I've prepared a kick and a surprise, but first I wanted to dive into some football chat. Congratulations on your victory against Leicester. You know it's a different feeling playing in a stadium like Villa Park. It's so cute, yeah, yeah, do you have a favorite? Stadium I think Wembley Wembley, yeah I can only imagine what the sound of the whole crowd is like and when you play so much and concentrate that you don't even hear the crowd and stuff you know it must be amazing to play at Wembley I think I get a buzz similar of Trainspotting for those who watch me Trainspotting, yes, they say why you like to try it so much.

I thought the same thing and I try and try to explain what it feels like and I say, imagine everyone. in a stadium together and someone scores a goal, everyone says, yeah, yeah, that feeling is what it's like inside for me um, yeah, I'm excited. 37,800 was about to explode in about five minutes and I knew it would give Alicia the thrill. She was talking about how we had a goose flyover in the meantime, oh it's some geese, she was nice enough to give us some shades, so I saw recently that you were scanned to be on FIFA.

I was so cool and then you go on to some and play with yourself like it's crazy you know a lot of little girls are like generally girls text me now oh I only play FIFA because women are into it now really, yeah, and um, it's cool, yeah, it's awesome to see it here and like, I hope so, I hope one day it can be uh maybe on Train Sim, yeah, that would be cool, yeah, awesome. I'm not sure if Alicia knew about training him, but I'm sure if she tried. she would have a great time and right now she's 37, which is equivalent to Cristiano Ronaldo, but in the Trainspotting community she was about to make it big, she'll overlook us and she didn't disappoint us, I enjoyed it and now it's time to get on the bandwagon and I bid farewell to Tamworth.

I wanted to pick up on something Alicia had mentioned before: women's football like Trainspotting doesn't always get the respect it deserves. Have you ever come across people supporting other teams online? Yes, it's true, as you said. Before that, people just judged you with the same knowledge because everyone is always like women, they can't play football and like all women's football, you know we hear this all the time, but they never see the game, you know, obviously , we ignore it. but yeah, sometimes it's just annoying, it's really sad to think that people can be so judgmental about something they hadn't even committed to before we realized it.

We were arriving at the crew station, one of the UK's major railway towns, and we were lucky. Enough to head into uncharted Trainspotting territory and see a very special train that has never done this before so I can't wait, there are no locomotives everywhere, it was fantastic. What's going on, we saw a DRS class 66 and even a nice class 08. These are one of the best diesel locomotive manufacturers, how do you know this? To verify this on the ab ball. It's just that I like to stay up to date with everything. It's kind of like, you know, gossip and things like and like I say when we check.

The scores you know from football games, yes, yes, and then the train we've been waiting for, departure deltek 55009, the first time on the main line in years. I feel a bit like Starstruck, yes, some of these locomotives I will drive ours to see. and they're all milling around and like, you know, I ordered all those trains to come for you now, so, surprise, oh, thank you, well, I think Alicia was starting to see the appeal of Trainspotting. She just wanted to say that I think it's the best. beautiful train. I agree halfway and Pullman is the most beautiful diesel passenger train I have ever seen.

The next one was something even more exciting. We had the opportunity to drive one of the most legendary class 37. 37 688 big rocks. I fantasized about driving a 37. For years this is key for a 37 and now I have to do it for a really serious clag. I couldn't help but make a more illegal but hat shade and Alicia seemed to love it, make sure Alicia had a choice. I was hoping that her liberal tone attitude wouldn't break any rules, but I was glad that she was having fun with someone while it had been a dream come true, oh my goodness, after the excitement of '37, I had a more relaxing surprise under the sleeve.

I've actually organized something quintessentially British, yeah, but keeping it as a surprise, um, all day, I guess, a picnic because I saw it was yours all morning, so yeah, I thought you know, yeah, um, the surprise had been. broke, but I was determined to show Alice a real British picnic after a bit of a swim with the basket, we settled on our picnic rug and what a moment, you know, looking at the trees, yes, yes, cheers of course, A picnic wouldn't be complete without something. Local British snacks, have you ever had a pork pie? Personally, I love pork pie.

There's something about dissecting meat gelatin and dough that really works. Maybe not the best thing you've ever known. Maybe pork scrapings are better with a delicious salty flavor. A British pub staple, it's a bit weird. My last hope was the humble Marmite sandwich, that's good, you like it, luckily Alicia likes it, you like it, but that's okay, it was time to go out and play with the local girls' football team. I think my choice of footwear will be good to keep things calm. I think the same. You know you're lucky. The nickname for these are the blinkers.

The rain is coming. Guys, we managed to avoid the rain and I only had time to grab. a video of a class 66 on an intermodal service we were in Alicia's territory now I was diving into the deep end with the bark switch Hello from Galaxy Under 11 so I brought a guest with me today they were delighted they recognized her immediately Alicia jumped in. I walked right in and started showing them some tricks. I thought I'd show you a trick I'd been taught. Neymar didn't go entirely according to plan. The old PE teacher, Mr Davies, had taught me to just run away and I hoped my long legs could make up for my lack of skill.

Alicia and the girls were amazing, but I seemed to get in the way. ball, it took me to play soccer at school where no one passed me, yes, I'm here in the middle because they knew that if I had to catch the ball I would get a little excited. I scored my own goal Alicia. I wanted to take some penalties with the girls, so I used my long limbs and went into the goal. It turns out that I am worse as a goalkeeper than I am at playing football. I saved a couple, but at least they got most of them.

It gave them a good opportunity to practice their celebrations by watching Alicia with the women's team. You can see how inspiring it was for the girls to meet such an incredible player and a bastion of women's football. It is so important to have role models to show that she can dream. big and successful, you never know, maybe one of these girls will make the England team in a few years. We had an amazing day starting with the thrashy 37800 through Tamworth to driving 37 688 at Crew Diesel Depot and trying out the football. Galaxy bark switch skills under 11 before we left, I just had time to give that trick one last chance, celebration