Gary Lineker to Step Down From BBC
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Forty summers after Gary Lineker had become a national goalscoring hero with England at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, the 2026 finals in the same country — as well as co-hosts the U.S. and Canada — were to be his farewell to the BBC.
Gary Lineker, who has hosted BBC's flagship football show Match of the Day for more than 25 years is due to leave the corporation after backlash from a social media post last week
GARY Lineker has returned to the BBC for the first time since being accused of sharing a “anti-Semitic” post. The outgoing Match of the Day host sparked fury over the Instagram upload,