Quote Originally Posted by upthemaggies View Post
Unlike Des Lynam, Brian Moore, Jim Rosenthal etc. He isn't where he is now because he worked his way up studying and gaining the qualifications necessary to land a job on a local newspaper as a journalist, expressing the talent to progress to a job as a reporter for local news, or local radio and so on. He's presenting MOTD because of what he did on the pitch and was semi-articulate and initially inoffensive enough to be fast-tracked into a role that should have been reserved for a professional.

Pop stars are no different wealth-wise, they become richer long after peaking as artists, living off the royalties of past glories whilst convincing themselves that they are still relevant - fuelled by anorak must-have-everything collector types still sending their well below sub-par mid-life crisis junk into the top ten for one week before it disappears and is forgotten for ever, until they return and give yet another interview reflecting on their heyday hoping for the brief opportunity to plug their latest abomination attempting to sound like what was contemporary 18 months agio. When that fails, then it's time for another greatest hits package.

But has Gary Lineker reached his used by date, in your opinion? If so, I would strongly suggest he's current working presenting roles tell a different story.