8 h. ago Gary Lineker says BBC didn’t have ‘great desire’ to renew his contract

Ex-footballer will leave the corporation after hosting its 2026 World Cup coverage

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3 d. ago Gary Lineker admits he was ‘upset’ by ‘frustrating’ response to BBC tweet controversy

‘It got completely blown out of proportion,’ TV star said

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2 w. ago Gary Lineker’s critics have got it wrong. It’s reasonable to talk about more than sport | Max Rushden

The Match of the Day presenter has been challenged again on his views on Gaza and Israel. But can we really expect him to have no opinions about the outside world?The most extraordinary revelation to come from Gary Lineker’s interview with Amol Rajan on the BBC is that he’d sometimes come home from school to find Engelbert Humperdinck playing cards with his dad. Surprisingly, almost all the reaction to the conversation has ignored this bombshell – Engelbert apparently not such a big player in the culture war world; best focus on your Middle Easts, your Bravermans, your impartialities, Brian.Of course the job of news outlets is to pick out headlines but it does appear almost no one has watched the whole programme. It’s essentially a nice wide-ranging interview covering the career of one of the best English footballers and football broadcasters of all time. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Gary Lineker insists he was 'right' to compare Suella Braverman's migrant crackdown to Nazi Germany

The 64-year-old has said his bosses at the BBC were 'silly' for taking him off air during yet another impartiality crisis of his own making, insisting it was a 'ridiculous overreaction'.

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2 w. ago Gary Lineker interview: Match of the Day presenter on BBC 'damage', reasons for leaving, regrets, politics

Match of the Day host Gary Lineker has given an expansive interview on leaving the popular BBC programme

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2 w. ago Gary Lineker makes shock BBC revelation and admits causing damage

The presenter will leave Match of the Day next month after 26 years at the helm

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2 w. ago Gary Lineker admits he feels the BBC 'wanted' him to leave Match of the Day

Gary Lineker has said that he believes the BBC wanted him to leave Match of the Day after it was announced he will be quitting the show at the end of the season

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2 w. ago Gary Lineker hits out at BBC rule change that 'doesn't make any sense'

Gary Lineker was taken off air by the BBC in March 2023 in a row over comments he made about the Conservative party's immigration policy, with the corporation changing its impartiality rules

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2 w. ago The BBC wanted me to leave Match of the Day, says Gary Lineker

The ex-footballer will leave the BBC after hosting its 2026 World Cup coverage

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2 w. ago Gary Lineker's true feelings on BBC suspension: 'I was right but I wouldn't do it again'

The BBC suspended Gary Lineker from presenting Match of the Day two years ago after he compared the language used in the UK government's immigration policy to that of 'Germany in the 1930s'

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2 w. ago Gary Lineker says he thinks BBC 'wanted him to leave' Match of the Day

Gary Lineker has said he thinks the BBC wanted him to leave Match Of The Day

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2 w. ago Gary Lineker: The BBC didn't want me to stay on Match of the Day

The broadcaster, 64, has used an interview with the corporation to suggest that his bosses never wanted him to stay despite starting contract talks last year.

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2 w. ago Gary Lineker insists BBC wanted him to leave Match of the Day in new bombshell interview

Gary Lineker only has a number of Match of the Day shows left ahead of his exit from the popular BBC show and has now hinted at the thought process behind the bombshell decision

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3 w. ago Gary Lineker’s TV presenting plans after Match of the Day role ends confirmed by football legend

Gary Lineker has been the face of BBC's Match of the Day for more than two decades, but the former England striker's future in the media is set to become quite different

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