It might not have been the tweet "heard around the world" but the impact wasn't bad for a brief bout of sermonising in the aftermath of a nondescript football match.
Thousands of retweets and replies, questions immediately put to the England manager, hundreds of news articles.
In fact it took Gary Lineker more than a tweet to express his dismay at England's performance on Wednesday night.
England legend Gary Lineker has blasted Roy Hodgson's men after an uninspiring 1-1 draw with the Republic of Ireland at Wembley last night. The Three Lions struggled to prise open the Irish defence before limping home to a 1-1 draw in a performance which impressed few. Reflecting on the game, Lineker had some choice words [.
The FA have revealed a logo to celebrate their 150 years in existence. The English Football Association logo features a montage of several iconic faces from the rich 150 year anniversary including Stanley Matthews, Paul Gascoigne, Gary Lineker, John...
En la copa mundial de Alemania 2006 una de las canciones mas tocadas y vitoreadas por todos los
aficionados fue la de Three Lions mejor conocida como ¨Football it´s coming home¨ en español
algo asà como ¨El fútbol regresa a casa¨ en referencia a la copa del mundo y del paÃs que
invento el fútbol soccer.
Ahead of tonight's big match, here are a few England vs Sweden moments from yesteryear that you'll
probably recall. 1. Brolin-Dahlin-Brolin (1992) This well worked one-two has come to be one of the
snapshots that represents England failures over the years. Swedish pie fan Tomas Brolin put paid to
England's Euro 92 hopes with this [.
After coming back to the studio after a gritty, urban-tinged England promo at half-time during
the Italy-Croatia match, BBC MotD anchor Gary Lineker attempted a little bit of street parlance
calling it 'sick' like the yoofs do these days, only to immediately regret it.
After coming back to the studio after a gritty, urban-tinged England promo at half-time during
the Italy-Croatia match, BBC MotD anchor Gary Lineker attempted a little bit of street parlance
calling it 'sick' like the yoofs do these days, only to immediately regret it.
The likes of Sir Bobby Charlton, Paul Gascoigne, Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, Stuart Pearce,
David Seaman and Emile Heskey discuss their best moments in the Three Lions.
And so the end has come once again, the moment every ardent soccer fan dreads; the final kick of the ball, the last high-pitched call of the whistle, and the customary sign-off from FOX Soccer and ESPN (in the States) and Gary Lineker and the boys (in the UK).
It has been a long and eventful season in the Barclays Premier League, a mixed bag of triumphs and tumult, and once again the red side of Manchester is caught up in jubilant victory songs.
Gary Lineker presents highlightings from all of Saturday's Premier League lucifers. HTTP://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image/62920000/jpg/_62920090_motdtitles20121330-08-12.jpg
The excellent weekly radio football show Cafe Calcio returns to the air next Friday, and for
this series one of its regular features will be the Street Pharmacists Guide To Football. Here's
co-host Chris Roberts on the more-ish effects of the Premier League for the supporter of a
newly-promoted club.
Admittedly we somewhat jumped and pole-vaulted the gun last week, declaring Roberto Martinez a red
hot favourite for the Anfield job after clocking him supping capuccinos with the Liverpool owner
last week. Turns out no deal was made. On the contrary, a three-year deal is thought to have been
signed, sealed and delivered between Swansea manager [.
TweetQueens Park Rangers midfielder Joey Barton has ripped into Match of The Day presenter Gary
Lineker in a highly-charged Twitter rant. Barton has come in for much criticism after seeing red
during QPR's 3-2 defeat to Manchester City on the final day of the Premier League season. Lineker
later took to Twitter to condemn Barton's [.
If you thought the end of last week was all about Lance Armstrong's warts 'n' all confession to Oprah, you would be wrong for this side of the Atlantic there was a one-on-one interview with someone equally forlorn and desperate for people to hear his side of the story. We're talking about Dietmar Hamann [.
Ex-Arsenal right-back-turned-pundit Lee Dixon tweeted earlier this week that he was to leave the
BBC after an encouraging couple of seasons on the sofa with Gary Lineker and Co. Dixon posted a
message saying: "Sad to be leaving BBC. Nothing lasts forever. New challenges ahead. Loved my time
there. Wonderful people", about his relationship with [.
A BBC insider has revealed the lengths the corporation has gone to entrap the Match of the Day
team- into uttering something so heinous that they have an excuse to sack them immediately.
The Match of the Day team are known to have long-term contracts with a variety of cast-iron
clauses preventing them from being moved on for otherwise career-ending misdemeanours, including
traffic offences, affairs, comparing a tackle to rape or not knowing anything about Hatem Ben
Arfa.
BBC presenter Gary Lineker found himself trending on Twitter after getting down with the kids
during this afternoon's Euro 2012 coverage. The former England international responded to a video
montage by noting: "That's sick."
This article titled "BBC v ITV: who is winning the Euro 2012 battle?" was written by Martin
Kelner, for guardian.co.uk on Thursday 14th June 2012 11.36 UTC
Shiny new football-themed commercials are part of the joy of big tournaments in my view – the
superannuated ex-stars carrying away wheelbarrow loads of money probably feel the same.
Follow @Regista_blog ::: FistedAway welcomes a guest post from Michael, who has an ace surname and runs the splendid Regista ::: Euro-time is almost upon us.
And yet, most of our attention is wrongly focused on the national teams competing at the
finals, when we should be weighing up the merits of the real heroes – the
broadcasters.
Former England striker and TV personality Gary Lineker has announced his decision to leave Twitter after her admitted becoming obsessed with the social media site. The star sent a tweet to his 1.3million followers to make the announcement: I'm leaving Twitter for personal reasons . Thanks all. Lineker's statement led to media rumours of a [.
We have grown used to our tabloid newspapers writing garbage headlines, and so it is nice when they
are challenged by the subject of their rubbish. The front page of the Daily Star shouts out today:
Lineker: England team are losers But Lineker, hearing about the story last night, took to Twitter
to defend himself.
How much longer can the pathetic footballing authorities allow this to go on? The disgraceful abuse and intimidation dished out to the match officials yesterday at Old Trafford was typical of the bully who has built his success on fear. Even Gary Lineker commented on Ferguson's disgusting behaviour yesterday, although MOTD stopped short of really dealing with the issue properly.
Manchester United is in the rare position of having a few key players available from injuries to play in their match this weekend. The opponent is Tottenham Hotspur, usually a team that is threatening at home, but when Spurs are away in the confines of Old Trafford, they're woeful. The last time Tottenham beat United at Old Trafford in the league was December 1989.
By Ahmed Bilal Spurs face a really tough trip to Old Trafford to take on Manchester United this weekend, and are a top priced 6.5 with Betfredto upset the odds and come away with all three points. The stats are certainly not good as far Andre Villas-Boas side are concerned.
Summing up the midweek Champions League action for Al Jazeera we'll say that again, AL JAZEERA host Gary Lineker was suddenly struck by the compulsion to refer to Montpellier pairKarim Ait-Fana and Younes Belhanda's Muslim prayer goal celebration made popular over here by the likes of Demba Ba as 'eating grass'.
Gary Lineker has caused outrage after using his broadcasting slot on Al Jazeera's Champions League coverage to compare a Muslim prayer goal celebration to eating grass. Way to play to the Al Jazeera crowd, Gary. Lineker was commentating on highlights of Karim Ait-Fana's goal for Montpellier against Schalke when he said: "A terrific effort from [.
It seems that some very upset Arsenal fans have complained to the TV Watchdog Ofcom about a Gary
Lineker impression of Arsene Wenger at the end of one of his editions of Match Of The Day, accusing
him of racism. God knows why this upset some touchy people, but Ofcom were honour-bound to
investigate and [.
Mario Balotelli has made a record-breaking start to the new season by totting up the biggest bar
bill ever seen at an Ibiza bar. The Manchester City striker hit the Ocean Beach Club, owned by Gary
Lineker's brother Wayne, for a holiday night out. The venue has hosted the likes of Joe Hart, Andy
[..
The last thing you'd want to do after getting unexpectedly booted out of Euro 2012 is to stay
within the confines of your hotel room or see the city. So naturally, the
German national team scheduled the earliest flight out of Poland yesterday morning
their wives and girlfriends in tow and arrived at the Frankfurt airport to be greeted by rain and
smiling men carrying umbrellas.
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Joey Barton has come along way. Where once he used to kick out at the world, frothing with
bilious, toxic rage; thrashing the living shit out of teenagers outside McDonalds at three in the
morning and using people's aqueous humour to stub out his cigars, now he actively looks at
paintings and books, each time memorizing their titles, and wears scarves indoor and out even on
the mildest of days.
So it was all about Cristiano Ronaldo doing nothing. And I pilloried BBC commentators for
fawning over him even while he was doing nothing, when they'd actually spotted the defining moment
of Portugal's tournament. "Look at Ronaldo, just waiting for his opportunity" said Steve Wilson,
midway through the stultifying second half against Spain.
So when did Kiev host the Olympics? I always thought that an Olympic Stadium had to have at
least held one. Not that it matters, of course, as the stadium in question will be Shevchenko
Stadium from now on, after two Andriy Shevchenko headers in seven second-half minutes clinched
Ukraine's storybook come-from-behind win over Sweden.
Fans of Premier League clubs in the United States reached the promised land yesterday with the announcementthat NBC Sports plans on showing every single game live, offering 600+ hours of original programming, hiring top talent such as Gary Lineker and having 20 matches shown live on free-to-air NBC in the first season.
Liverpool and England skipper Steven Gerrard spearheaded the Three Lions to only their fourth ever success over the samba stars of Brazil on Wednesday night. Both the midfielder, who earlier this week was named his country's Player of the Year, and right-back Glen Johnson completed the full 90 minutes as goals from Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard sealed a famous 2-1 win at Wembley.
Dan Walker of the BBC's Football Focus has apologized for commenting that two fans at a Southampton match looked like they were "on the Ronaldo diet" on the program last season. But his apology wasn't directed at any of the people you would suspect.
From the Telegraph:
The BBC One show had just featured a Gary Lineker interview with Ronaldo, the Brazilian footballer who has put on weight since his playing days.
United play host to Spurs this weekend and look worthy favourites at 1.57 with bet365 and Betfred to bag another three points.
Sir Alex Ferguson's side have a terrific record against the Londoners and come into the game unbeaten in their last 6 matches in all competitions despite not playing at their best.
It's not that uncommon to see a famous face on the streets of Amsterdam; in the past, I've run
across the likes of Nelly Furtado, Gary Lineker, Angelina Jolie and Ashley Tisdale (though I had no
earthly clue who she was at the time). Still, it was quite a surprise just now to happen upon none
other than USMNT youth technical director Claudio Reyna out for a stroll down Leidsestraat during
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