I listened to every single one of the podcasts Lineker did with Danny Baker and thoroughly enjoyed them, but he's clearly not the brightest button in the box.

His comparing the support he's received on twitter to the feeling he had when scoring for England was very telling I think.

It's a typical trajectory for celebrities coming from less privileged backgrounds, they enjoy all of the fruits the system has to offer and the adulation that goes with it, then as they reach their use-by date at the top of their game, the hero worship fades, they are left contemplating how they came to end up in their huge houses with the expensive toys, the guilt kicks in and they're then desperately seeking approval for being a good kind caring person to fill the void and justify their accumulating wealth.

No celebrity was probably more self-aware than John Lennon who admitted as much shortly before his murder. Decorated as a member of the British Empire only to be rejected three years later by a culture unprepared for his sudden deep dive into the avant-garde with an American-Asian artist, he was busted by a bent cop which resulted in his partner suffering a miscarriage late-term and ridiculed by the media. The only place left for him to run and be taken semi-seriously was the radical left wing publications - the International Times, OZ magazine and Red Mole. In his own words he just wanted Tariq Ali to love him, because the likes of Don Short at the Daily Mirror would no longer give him the validation he so desperately craved.

As Lennon's own song written to himself states "Say you wanna save humanity but it's people that you just can't stand. I don't wanna face it."

Lineker is no left wing radical, he tweeted that Corbyn needed to be removed once he realised his cushy lifestyle may not be so secure had Corbyn got in, but this self appointed Ghandi of the progressive left is not smart enough to disguise his true motives. The left wing equivalent of that Harry Enfield character "Nice but Dim"