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Lineker has fronted the Saturday night programme, which shows highlights of that day’s Premier League fixtures, since 1999. The show itself first aired on the BBC in 1964 and — barring a few ...
Gary Lineker will take a step back from presenting “Match of the Day,” the iconic British football show, following controversy about a tweet he wrote earlier in the week, the BBC announced on ...
But Lineker’s stay on Match of the Day hasn’t been without controversy, with the most notable flashpoint coming in March 2023 when he was required to step back from presenting on the BBC ...
Lineker, who first presented Match of the Day in 1999, criticised the UK government’s new asylum policy in a tweet on March 7. He wrote on Twitter: “There is no huge influx. We take far fewer ...