5 h. 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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6 h. ago Gary Lineker makes admission about future TV roles as Match of the Day stint almost ends

Gary Lineker leaves Match of the Day at the end of the season after 26 years presenting the highlights Premier League programme, although he will still cover the FA Cup and 2026 World Cup

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33 h. ago Mickey Rourke LIVE: Celebrity Big Brother sacking reason as star's huge paycheck to be 'slashed'

Celebrity Big Brother has removed Hollywood star Mickey Rourke from the ITV show's house following "further use of inappropriate language and unacceptable behaviour"

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42 h. ago Match of the Day host Gary Lineker offered £1million for autobiography by the publisher of Prince Harry's Spare

The former England captain has been approached by editors at Penguin Random House who commissioned Spare.

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4 d. ago 'The BBC thought it was perfect that I was sacked live on Match of the Day'

Gus Poyet became the first Premier League manager to lose his job live on air while working as a pundit for the BBC

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4 d. ago The Return review – Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes bring fierce class to elemental Odyssey adaptation

Uberto Pasolini’s raw and urgent drama, from a draft by Edward Bond, sees a traumatised Odysseus face the shameful aftermath of warThe film world is on tenterhooks for Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming Imax-epic treatment of Homer’s Odyssey, but Uberto Pasolini’s fierce, raw drama of the poem’s final sections, describing Odysseus’s traumatised return to Ithaca after the sack of Troy, may well give Nolan something to live up to. Pasolini collaborated on the script with screenwriter John Collee, evidently developed from a draft playwright Edward Bond wrote in the 90s; among other things, this film deserves attention as the final work from Bond (who died in 2024).The Return is an elementally violent movie about PTSD, survivor guilt, abandonment, Freudian dysfunction and ruined masculinity. Juliette Binoche is the deserted queen Penelope, enigmatically reserving her opinions and dignity, refusing to believe the absent king is dead and declining to remarry as the island descends into lawle...

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5 d. ago Where have all the headphones gone on public transport? The noise is eating into my soul | Adrian Chiles

Just one antisocial fellow traveller can ruin a journey. Is it a giant two-fingered gesture to the rest of the world?Some time in the early years of the last decade, a friend and I travelled by train from London to Barcelona, where we would be covering a football match for work. We had a very nice day, playing Scrabble and drinking train wine as we sped south. The only problem was that a kid near us, not 10 years old, was watching a cartoon or playing a game on an iPad without the benefit of headphones. The sound wasn’t so much loud as persistent. Slowly but surely it drilled its way into our skulls and started to eat into our souls. I shot the family a couple of glances but got a look back which managed to communicate two things. Firstly that they were sorry. Secondly that if they took the iPad off the kid, we’d all be sorry. So, on he went. And an otherwise perfectly pleasurable journey started to drag.Then I had an idea. I got my headphones out of my bag, caught the mother’s eye,...

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6 d. ago BBC Match of the Day celebrates 60 years with special National Football Museum exhibit

The beloved sports show will be celebrating 60 years on our screens this year

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6 d. ago BBC film dubbed 'the most disturbing ever made' with perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score rebooted by Adolescence producers

Warp Films were behind the Netflix series and have confirmed the remake, describing it as 'unflinchingly honest'.

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7 d. ago Match of the Day pundit Troy Deeney incredibly DEFENDS Man United fans' vile chants about Phil Foden's mum

Former Premier League star and Match of the Day pundit Troy Deeney has controversially downplayed the vile abuse directed towards Phil Foden during Sunday's Manchester derby.

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8 d. ago Stuck paratrooper prevents play before Sale slump to Toulouse defeat

Last 16: Toulouse 38-15 SaleStricken army captain was dangling 30 metres upIt is rare that Toulouse do not live up to the pre-match theatrics but it is not every day that a paratrooper attempting to land on the pitch gets snagged on the stadium roof and suspended in midair for half an hour. As it was, the paratrooper in question was rescued by the fire brigade before Toulouse dug in to beat a dogged Sale side, finishing with a flourish to send their supporters home happy.Ultimately, the Sharks’ defeat caps a thoroughly miserable weekend for the Premiership clubs and for the first time since 2019 there will be just one representative – Northampton – in the last eight. As far as England’s British & Irish Lions hopefuls are concerned, it has not been a great weekend either and Andy Farrell will anxiously await news of Tom Curry’s suspected wrist injury which forced the flanker off during the first half here. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Gary Lineker reveals how he really feels about Match of the Day replacement plan

Gary Lineker will host his last Match of the Day episode next month and has given his verdict on the BBC's new presenter line-up for the Premier League highlights show

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1 week ago 'I founded Oasis but Noel sacked me over silly row, I live with a huge regret'

Tony McCarroll founded Oasis back in 1991 but parted ways with the band following a personality clash with Noel Gallagher in 1995. Thirty years on and he admits it still fills him with regret

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1 week ago Gary Lineker says he's 'so happy on my own' and won't use his Match of the Day

Gary Lineker has revealed he has no intention of getting back into the dating world once he leaves Match of the Day at the end of the season.

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1 week ago Gary Lineker reveals why he was moved to tears during BBC Match of the Day walkout

Gary Lineker was suspended by the BBC for an alleged breach of their social media guidelines after posting about the previous government's treatment of asylum seekers in 2023.

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1 week ago Gary Lineker reveals plans after BBC exit as he makes millions from another job

The departing Match of the Day presenter says he has 'had talks' with a rival broadcaster

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1 week ago The B team? First XIs packed with players whose names begin with same letter | The Knowledge

Plus: a 972 score in Scrabble, the same stadium name across multiple grounds, and 48 league appearances in one seasonMail us with your questions and answers“The other day in their Women’s Champions League match against Manchester City, Chelsea fielded a back four of Bronze, Bright, Björn and Baltimore,” emails Asad Butt. “Are there other examples of this in defence, midfield or attack?”Back in 2017, we answered a question regarding men’s teams fielding three or more players with the same first name, with five Johns starting in an England XI against Switzerland in 1948: John Aston, John Haines, John Hancocks, John (‘Jack’) Rowley and John (‘Jackie’) Milburn all featuring. As mentioned by Asad, Chelsea fielded a back four beginning with the same surname letter against Manchester City earlier this month (plus Aggie Beever-Jones in the first leg). But we can do better than that. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Gary Lineker reveals why he was reduced to tears during MOTD row and BBC suspension

Gary Lineker was sidelined for one episode of Match of the Day in 2023 over a social media row but he says solidarity shown by colleagues left him emotionally moved

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1 week ago Gary Lineker reveals Sky Sports talks and confirms future plans after Match of the Day exit

Gary Lineker will step down as host of Match of the Day at the end of the 2024-25 Premier League season in May before leaving the BBC altogether following next year's World Cup

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2 w. ago Gary Lineker reveals his future plans after stepping down as Match of the Day host and leaving the BBC

Lineker will step down as host of Match of the Day in May, but will continue to front the BBC's coverage of next season's FA Cup and the 2026 World Cup.

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