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Victor Osimhen should leave Napoli for Arsenal this summer, according to Gary Lineker. The Nigeria striker, 25 – who has also been linked with the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea in recent years – will depart the Italian club this summer, according to owner Aurelio De Laurentiis. And Lineker …

FourFourTwo have asked Alan Shearer and Gary Lineker for their best moments together as colleagues on the BBC. The pair are best remembered by football fans of a certain age as the most deadly England strikers of their respective decades: Lineker the 80s and Shearer the 90s, with 78 Three …

As Gary Lineker and co. covered the FA Cup third round replay between Wolves and Liverpool back in January, a rather unexpected sound penetrated the BBC’s studio at Molineux. The Beeb had to apologise to viewers after loud moaning noises of a sexual nature interrupted Lineker’s discussion of the game …

Gary Lineker has questioned Manchester United‘s treatment of Jadon Sancho, as the row surrounding the forward’s absence from Sunday’s 3-1 defeat at Arsenal intensifies. Erik ten Hag left the 23-year-old out of his matchday squad for the trip to North London, citing poor performance in training during the run-up to …

Gary Lineker will be missing from BBC’s coverage of the FA Cup quarter-final between Brighton and Grimsby Town today after being ‘silenced’ again, albeit for a different reason this time. Lineker was suspended by the BBC from presenting Match of the Day last weekend after comments he made on Twitter …

GB News broadcasted a cringeworthy ‘Alternative Match of the Day’ on Saturday night, as the real programme was heavily truncated after Gary Lineker’s suspension by the BBC. Lineker was suspended on Friday for allegedly breaching BBC impartiality guidelines with a tweet about the UK government’s asylum policy. In response, pundits …

BBC boss Tim Davie has apologised for the disruption to the station’s sports coverage this weekend following the decision to remove Gary Lineker from Saturday night’s Match of the Day programme. The BBC announced on Friday that Lineker would be “stepping back” from the show after his criticism of the …

Gary Lineker, presenter of the BBC’s Match of the Day, has been left on the bench this weekend with his future in doubt. Lineker this week tweeted his support (opens in new tab) for refugees, labelling a recent government policy as an “Immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable …

Ian Wright has said he won’t appear on Match of the Day this weekend, following the BBC’s announcement that Gary Lineker has “stepped back” from presenting duties in a row over his tweets. The former Arsenal forward is a regular pundit on Match of the Day’s Saturday night show, analysing …

Brazilian wonderkid Endrick has been grabbing headlines since bursting into professional football while still only 16-years-old with Palmeiras, gaining plenty of admirers along the way.  Former England striker Gary Lineker is among the list of great international strikers to recognise the talent of Endrick, tweeting in January 2022 about an …