O/T:-Gary Lineker

[drillerpie]

If that's the case and you are indeed correct, then forget Tim 'Nice but dim' the man is a genius, he's been getting away with it for over 23 years seeing as he started on Match of the Day since 1999. And its not just the BBC he appears to have duped over the past two decades, BT Sport, NBCSN, Al Jazeera Sport, La Liga TV, Sunday Telegraph.

Maybe the BBC shouldn't feel so bad about paying all that money after all. Let's see when his actual commercial sell by date is reached in the world of media UTM

I'd be surprised if he accepted work from Al Jazeera given his strong opinions about Qatar.

[laddo]

No skating , your central point is, I believe, a well known, well established common practice for media companies to use big name ex players to front or offer punditry and analysis of varying quality. I think that's been happening in a lot of sports for a lot of years , and not just in this country. So it was nowt new to me.

What was new and what stood out from your past post was the sell by date comment which seems rather misplaced. But obviously everyone is rightly entitled to their opinion regardless of how active their career is or isn't right now.

I'm sure he feel he made up for any FA cup final painful defeats as a young fan when he won and got his hands on the trophy in 1991. Personally I still remember that final very very fondly for the obvious reason.

1969 must have made it all the more sweet.

[macstop]

[Magpies1959]

^^
Indeed