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Also known as Gary Winston Lineker

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Gary Lineker is a former English football player who has become one of the country's most prominent sports commentators and analysts. He matters because he's widely recognized as an influential voice in football broadcasting, shaping how millions of people discuss and understand the sport.

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Leicester, England, UK

Gary Winston Lineker is a former professional footballer turned popular television presenter and sports broadcaster. Renowned for his exceptional goal-scoring abilities and his clean disciplinary record on the field, Lineker is one of England’s football legends. After retiring from football, he transitioned into broadcasting, where he became the longstanding presenter of the BBC’s Match of the…

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  • The Match — Self2026
  • Butcher: Invisible Wounds — Self2026
  • England 2006: The Golden Generation — Self2026
  • The Rest is Football — Self - Host2026
  • The Box — Self - Host2026
  • Gary Lineker - Simply The Best2025
  • Kenny Dalglish — Self (archive footage)2025
  • Saipan — Self (archive footage)2025
  • The Assembly — Self - Interviewee2025
  • Rooney 2004: World At His Feet — Self (archive footage)2024

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Meet Britain’s Joe Rogan - New Statesman

Gary Lineker could be the most influential liberal commentator in the nation’s history. If he manages his exit right.

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Imagine Gary Lineker in 2029. A foreign, but not distant, prospect. Silver hair still silver. Smile still winning. Banter appropriately pitched to a broad national audience. Anecdotes about Gazza, not Gaza, still doing the business. A podcast mogul today, by 2029 Gary Lineker could be Britain’s Joe Rogan. The Guardian ’s media editor, Michael Savage, suggested last week that Lineker’s next move might see him eschew a traditional broadcasting rival, and instead opt for the hyper-modern streaming model. Information about your activity on this service (such as forms you submit, content you look at) can be stored and combined with other information about you (for example, information from your previous activity on this service and other websites or apps) or similar users. This is then used to build or improve a profile about you (that might include possible interests and personal aspects). Your profile can be used (also later) to present advertising that appears more relevant based on your possible interests by this and other entities. Advertising presented to you on this service can be based on your advertising profiles, which can reflect your activity on this service or other websites or apps (like the forms you submit, content you look at), possible interests and personal aspects. Information about your activity on this service (for instance, forms you submit, non-advertising content you look at) can be stored and combined with other information about you (such as your previous activity on this service or other websites or apps) or similar users. This is then used to build or improve a profile about you (which might for example include possible interests and personal aspects). Your profile can be used (also later) to present content that appears more relevant based on your possible interests, such as by adapting the order in which content is shown to you, so that it is even easier for you to find content that matches your interests. Content presented to you on this service can be based on your content personalisation profiles, which can reflect your activity on this or other services (for instance, the forms you submit, content you look at), possible interests and personal aspects. This can for example be used to adapt the order in which content is shown to you, so that it is even easier for you to find (non-advertising) content that matches your interests. Information regarding which content is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine whether the (non-advertising) content e.g. reached its intended audience and matched your interests. For instance, whether you read an article, watch a video, listen to a podcast or look at a product description, how long you spent on this service and the web pages you visit etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of (non-advertising) content that is shown to you. Information about your activity on this service, such as your interaction with ads or content, can be very helpful to improve products and services and to build new products and services based on user interactions, the type of audience, etc. This specific purpose does not include the development or improvement of user profiles and identifiers. With your acceptance, your precise location (within a radius of less than 500 metres) may be used in support of the purposes explained in this notice. With your acceptance, certain characteristics specific to your device might be requested and used to distinguish it from other devices (such as the installed fonts or plugins, the resolution of your screen) in support of the purposes explained in this notice. Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and i

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Winston
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Leicester
Employer
BBC
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Participant in
UEFA Euro 1992
Member of team
Leicester City F.C.
Position played
forward
Country for sport
England
Image
Gary Lineker (cropped).jpg
Height
177
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Commons category
Gary Lineker
date of birth
1960-11-30
start of work period
1979-00-00
social media followers
8693235
name in native language
Gary Lineker
birth name
Gary Winston Lineker
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