With any luck he’ll end up with BEIN and be Richard Keys Bitch!
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Ex-Spurs Player Gary 'the ears' Lineker is a prick - discuss
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With any luck he’ll end up with BEIN and be Richard Keys Bitch!
Gary Lineker steps down as BBC Sports Personality of the Year co-host
The news comes a day after confirmation that he will leave the BBC's Match of the Day.
www.bbc.co.uk
To be perfectly fair to the BBC ;
Gary Lineker quitting MOTD was only the lead story on their ” News” websiite for 30 or so hours . And then the resignation of the Arcbishop of Canterbury goes and knocks him off the top-spot . Shit happens.
Never give up , and all that ; turns out Gary won’t be doing SPOTY either !
F me his agent is good ; either that the Beeb is gaslighting the world ; imagine someone in a developing country tuning in to read this sort of
“News “ .
I get they have to justify paying him more than anyone else in the publically-funded Institution . But really .
Loved him as a player and never previously understood the hate ; but those around him are doing him no favours whatsoever.
It’s SPOTY ; what next ; he’ll throw his formula for curing AIDS into a fire-pit whilst speaking perfect Spanish / Catalan . Just to let us all know “ what might have been “ .
At least Huw is no longer around to make the solemn proclamation (s) .
He got a million a year for many years and now he’s decided to do other thing’s with his time .
Good for him .
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Spurs account getting almost unanimous pelters after wishing him a happy birthday. It makes me quite curious about his overall standing at the club since the day he signed because he was such a key player during his time here.
He's a couple of years before my time when my interest in Spurs grew and growing up I really liked him as he seemed to be the only voice on MOTD defending us from constant Hansen and Lawro jibes.
Days of me watching that are long gone but has that really flipped now as this thread has hinted at? I have to admit he seems to carry this false persona that irritates me these days but have the supporters always felt this way about him?
I find it a little strange the overall hate he gets given he did little wrong during his playing career to affect Tottenham and I think he was at the WHL farewell too. Has he always been heavily disliked at the club and if not when did it flip?
To bring it back round I'm slightly surprised at just how much hate he gets with not even an acknowledgement of his great record with us.
The goal at Old Trafford in '89, was in the seats but wish i was in the standing.
Think that was the only time i'd seen Lineker score from outside the box, Jim Leighton was in goal.
That was the first time we'd won in the league there for 13 years.
Then we went another 23 years without a win there (league &cup), mostly defeats.
Only missed 2 games there in that time, '99 when they won the league instead of the scum and also the Pedro Mendes one in '05.
THEN after all that distress there, i go and miss the 3-2 win in 2012.
We won our next game there, which i missed again.
One after that i went to, and we LOST 3-0.
Poxy place.
Think that was the only time i'd seen Lineker score from outside the box, Jim Leighton was in goal.
That was the first time we'd won in the league there for 13 years.
Then we went another 23 years without a win there (league &cup), mostly defeats.
Only missed 2 games there in that time, '99 when they won the league instead of the scum and also the Pedro Mendes one in '05.
THEN after all that distress there, i go and miss the 3-2 win in 2012.
We won our next game there, which i missed again.
One after that i went to, and we LOST 3-0.
Poxy place.
Bloke fucking hates us and never passes up an opportunity to dig us out. He can go and fuck himself.
He's a smug prick to boot
Loves himself. You get the feeling he would give himself pink eye every night whacking one off if he could shoot his load that far. Absolute helmet.
Proper old fashioned goal hanging forward. You have to be selfish in that role and I always thought he was perfectly suited to that.
He’s always been in love with himself and I’ve not heard many say a good word about him.
He’s always been in love with himself and I’ve not heard many say a good word about him.
He's become a lightning rod for a certain type of person. I'm utterly ambivalent about him. Was instrumental in us winning an FA cup but like one or two EX Spurs players seems to have no deep love of the club, which started to make me wonder if that actually says more about the people who have owned the club over the years.
Whereas Alan Smith is definitely a Gooner after playing for Leicester unlike Jug Ears!
His liberal politics annoy a lot of people.
Fwiw I agree with most of what he says but
1. Clear he has no deep love of Spurs
2. The stories I’ve heard about him from well-placed sources are not very positive
He may not endear himself to everyone, for one reason or another.
But he left Barcelona to join us and scored important goals for the club and did as much as anyone to win us a trophy ( remember them ) back in the day . He seems to be on our side whenever he discusses football .
Apart from LCFC , his home-town club and the one he came through the ranks in and first played for ; we seem to be “ his “ team .
What’s not to like ?
Unless the whole refugee-thing is your main passion in life .
And if , as a grossly and offensively over- paid media celebrity , he comes across as a narcissistic self-regarding wanker when you get to meet him in “real-life “ ; trust me your license-fees does that to a lot of people. Loads of other “ working-class heroes “ have gone exactly the same way , and many more besides.
To sum up ; I don’t get all the hate for him on here . And I wish we had someone of his ilk playing for us today .
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Not sure how much he loves us - Leicester are his team.
I agree with his views on refugees. Could go further actually.
That’s not the criticism I’m hearing about him. Won’t say too much in a public forum but it’s of a different nature to him being arrogant.
I think a lot of the dislike is from right-wing men who don’t like his politics. Imho.
100 % agree re LCFC ; and rightly so , but he clearly loved being with us (working under TV ) ; he’s said so on numerous occasions AFAIK . And seems to have a genuine affection for our club .
As I said he may behave like a pampered ego-centric celebrity nowadays ; hard not to when he’s being paid in excess of 1 million for tops 6 hours work a week with at least 12 weeks holiday a year.
I wouldn’t know if he has a truly
“ darker “ side that only comes out when people deal with him in person. But if there is ; it will come out eventually and he’ll get to experience his own Icarus / Huw moment. I don’t know anything about that .
I get the resentment when it comes to Tanguy but not so much for GL . Maybe it’s just me .
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I'm ambivalent - his politics, overall, are fine by me, though stories about his off-screen behaviour leave a sour taste.
Tanguy is just a totally different order, lol, not fit to be held in his company, in a footballing sense anyway. Bloke was a complete dosser.
Get what you’re saying.
They say we should never meet our heroes…..for me , based on what he did for us ( and irrespective of anything he’s done since ) ; he’s a hero.
Whom , being realistic, I’m unlikely to meet .
Hopefully we can agree ?