The BBC showed the Brazil -Portugal game on Friday afternoon
Before the game Gary Lineker said, “If you want to watch North Korea play the Ivory Coast, I can’t imagine why, it’s on the red button.”
I can’t imagine why?
Thanks for that snide putdown, you little twerp.
Lineker probably thinks people turn their TV sets on to see him. He’ll never know how unimportant he is – and how lucky he is.
When he got Des Lynham’s job he looked and like an office junior. He did a Walkers Crisps commercial in which he played a cheeky chappie. Then he re-invented himself as a cheeky chappie TV presenter. So he is the only TV presenter who found his personality in a crisps commercial.Bravo !
And all of that is borderline OK until Lineker drops his guard and lets us see what how snide he is. Maybe snide is his default position.
Let’s face it, Alan Hansen’s script is ten years old and Shearer never says much. I gather that Hansen gets £1 million of our licensee fees. Should he be paid more than Jeremy Paxman, who is on a mere £940,000? Do they each get a BBC limo back to the North West after every Match of the Day? I heard that but I didn’t believe it.
I’m told Hansen and Shearer do a commercial for Morrison’s, a northern supermarket chain.
Haven’t seen that, thankfully.