Gary Lineker

Gary Lineker, they think it’s all over. It is now.

The footballer, undone by his naivety, will present his last Match of the Day tomorrow.

Gary Lineker and the impartiality trap

The BBC presenter is caught between the worlds of old and new media.

Half-time honours for the Premier League season 2024-25

Highlights include: Jude’s flair, long hair and the end of an earpiece for Gary Lineker.

Gary Lineker: “I seem to live in the Daily Mail’s head”

Exclusive interview: Gary Lineker on leaving the BBC, the war in Gaza and his new career as a “media mogul”.

Inside Gary Lineker’s Match of the Day exit

Also this week: keeping shrimp and a new role for Hugh Grant.

Why are Tories so obsessed with Gary Lineker?

Also this week: a brawl at Lord’s and the US-Saudi golf rivalry.

The Rest is Football should be sent off

Gary Lineker’s new podcast offers a stale standard of analysis that barely hovers above that offered by the drunkest bar-propper…

Something rotten

A succession of scandals has created a profound mistrust in our political and media class.

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The right have a secret: they are the true snowflakes

Culture warriors can’t help but display the behaviour they seek to criticise. Listen to them, then throw their words back…

Former Today editor backs BBC boss over Lineker treatment

Jamie Angus is the first to raise his head above the parapet for Tim Davie – but thinks many BBC…

Gary Lineker’s “special agreement” with Tim Davie 

Agent Jon Holmes reveals in the New Statesman that the presenter understood he could tweet freely about refugees and immigration.

Gary Lineker’s tweet, the BBC’s panic, and why I was left to “sort it out”

As the Match of the Day host’s agent, I had a busy week at the centre of the impartiality storm.

Fear and loathing at the BBC

In an era of fake news and hyperpartisan media, the rationale for a public-service broadcaster is stronger than ever.

Tim Davie and Richard Sharp have lost the BBC dressing room

Staff at the broadcaster hold its director-general and chairman in contempt.

How much longer can Richard Sharp last as BBC chairman?

The Tory-led furore over Gary Lineker and impartiality has only succeeded in making Sharp’s position appear even more untenable.

The BBC needs to stop being its own worst enemy

The corporation must stand up to Conservative bullying and prioritise fairness over an impossible standard of impartiality.

Gary Lineker played into the hands of the BBC’s right-wing enemies

Those who want to defund a vital national institution have emerged stronger from this saga.

Sack him or back him, the BBC cannot win the row over Gary Lineker

Whatever decision Tim Davie makes, he is bound to outrage around half of the British public and a good number…

When will the BBC get over its fear of the right-wing press?

The Gary Lineker affair has proved the corporation still takes its lead from the same papers that want to destroy…