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Gary Lineker

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“Yeah, it was, I mean, it was tough. It was our first child, George. He was about six weeks old. And he developed this like kind of bump on his head, like a spot, but it was hard. So I thought, this is, oh, we'll get it checked. So he took him to the doctor and the doctor said, oh, it looks like kind of some skin condition. I can't remember the name of ridiculously long word. And he said, we'll take a tiny biopsy and we'll get back to you in about 10 days. And then within those 10 days, he started developing more of these bumps. And then they were on the top of his head everywhere and he was pretty bold as a baby. And they were quite hard. His head was like a golf ball. It's really weird. And we went back and we saw there were two doctors there waiting and we walked in.”
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“I think that's the kind of an age I started. I was always interested in politics. My dad was my dad was a real thatcherite. He was a real Tory. So you could influence that way.”
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“I didn't know the history, you learned it very quickly. You know, obviously, it was not that long, really, after Franco's, and there was very much that feeling. They used to talk to me that, you know, the thing called Los Kules and Mess Came Club is Barcelona, which is more than a football club. And they say that because during Branco, you know, the only place they could really speak their language they felt was inside. The new camp. So therefore, when this team became kind of this really important thing against Franco Spain, which was seen as Real Madrid. So that's where this classico real rivalry comes from. It's kind of more than a football match, more than a club.”
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“It's a good question that will never need to be answered because they both said yes. But yeah, I don't know. I suppose I'd have said, is that you saying yes or me saying yes?”
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“I didn't have to go, but when a club tells you that, and I kind of tell the Everton fans that sometimes, oh, you shouldn't, well, you left us and I got stick for ages. And in fact, one of the pluses for social media is gave me the chance to actually explain that it wasn't quite like that. I mean, in an ideal world, I'd have stayed another couple of years at Everton because it was such a good team. It was the best team I ever played for. They were so good. We'd have won loads of titles, won nothing when I was there. But it was only one year. In fact, the way we decided whether to go or not, Michelle, they went. I said, well, that kind of agreed a fee to Barcelona. It's like one of the biggest clubs in the world. It's a huge opportunity, but I'm quite happy at Everton. I don't know what to do. And she's discussing, well, I don't know. What do you think? What do you think? I don't know. Should we go? You go. And in the end, we decided it. We both got a piece of paper and we decided that we'd write yes or no on the piece of paper and put it in a thing. And then we'd open them both up.”
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“I'd never even contemplated living abroad before. It kind of came out of the blue. Everton called me one day, said we've accepted an offer from Barcelona.”
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“And then we had the penalty shooter. I have to tell you this. So we're in the center, you know, these penalty shoes out. It's horrible. You have to wait about 10 minutes. And I was taking the first penalty. And Bobby Rossman gathered us around, the four of us that volunteered and Chris Waddle. Gaza was going to take one, but he wasn't. He didn't feel it before. I'll kind of, yeah, volunteered before, but then you get substitutions, but then also you have to volunteer again. There are only four. And so we were there, the five of us, and Bobby Robson goes in the middle and he went, lads, don't let me down. There are 30 million people watching this back home. So Peter Beersley and myself, we bounced out laughing and said, oh, cheers.”
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“So I was still with Gaza, and then his bottom lips started to go, and there was a tear in his eyes. So I'm thinking, I'm starting to selfish reasons in many ways. I'm thinking we need him, you know, and he's gone here. He's like, so I look at the bench, and Bobby Robson's like there. So I've just gone pointing to my temple or something Have a word with him or keep an eye on him. Whatever I said, obviously not knowing that it would become this event that I get asked about. Probably as much as anything else, other than what my favorite flavor of crisp is. But Gaza actually rallied in the second half and played really well.”
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“Well, obviously, because he got the yellow card, it was quite obvious that he was going to have to, you know, he would miss the final if we got through to the final. And we managed to, it was 1-1 in normal time. And when he got the yellow card, I was really close. And it was also really close to the bench, like 10 yards from the side of the pitch. I was really in close proximity. And he did the found. And as soon as the referee brandished the card, we all knew. Of course we knew that he was out of the fine because he got two yellow cards.”
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“And I don't know where he picked this up, but he came into the dressing room at the end of the game, into our dressing room, walked over, shook me by the hand, and he went in a perfect cockney accent. He went, fucking hell. And yeah, I think it might have been from one of Terry Venables. Yeah, totally, Terry.”
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“We had to meet up on the Monday, but Bobby Robson said to me, there's no point you coming back to London flying out with us. Why don't you fly from Barcelona to Real Madrid? So I said, yeah, okay, I'll do that. So we flew out on the plane and I was like with six of my teammates and they were all giving it, oh, you're going to get, we're going to give you a good kick in and all this sort of usual stuff. So the game happens. I managed to score four goals and we beat them four two. England. So it was great for them. And at the end of the game, the goalkeeper that I scored four against was Andoni Zubi Fareta. And he was a great goalkeeper and a wonderful lad.”
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“Manager Terry Venables was the manager. He was English. Obviously, the Spanish players. I mean, we spoke Spanish. And Terry Venables spoke Spanish was really good, but he'd still use a lot of English and objectives and stuff like that. So we played, England played against Spain in the Burnabo in Real Madrid, Real Madrid's ground.”
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“When I went there, I kind of looked at the players that had been successful and English players that had gone abroad. And the ones that had done well kind of the ones that immersed themselves in the culture learned the language. People like Ray Wilkins and people like Trevor Francis. People like Kevin Keegan, Tony Woodcott, they'd order very successful abroad, but they'd all learn the language. And I thought it's got to be important. So as soon as I got there, I started having lessons three days a week for two years we had lessons with Michelle, then wife. And it really helped because, you know, you're in the dressing room. You can chat, you can get the banter, you can have some fun.”
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“I've always enjoyed the famous. Oh, yeah. There are downsides. But, you know, yeah, people are lovely. And that's the thing. I know it's a little bit difficult. And you can get, I think you can misunderstand things because of Twitter or social media where people have a go at you. But it's a very tiny percentage. And they're the ones that shout the loudest, I think, so you perhaps notice them. But by and large, people are lo”
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“No, they did in that generation. The Stoics a little bit soft, that is. And I went, I don't know if you're too dad. And I went, I go out and I was in a lift. I think it was on the seventh floor. And it was just me and it and I'm sobbing, right? Sobbing. And it stopped the next floor in about six nurses walked in. Oh, you're all right. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But, yeah.”
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“He was late, kind of 78, 79, and then was going up to Leicester almost every day and lots of times to see him. And for the first time and a half, we'd really had proper conversations. And I remember him, we're talking about football. And I said, you know, my career's really surprised me. And he went, no, he said, what do you mean? I went, well, you couldn't have known that I was going to be. He went, I always knew. I went, you could have told me. And then one of our last conversations really got me was he was really near the end. And it was probably the last kind of compass mentus conversation we had. And as I left, he held my hand and he went, I love you. I'd never heard him say that.”
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“My parents, my mum always. My dad's kind of old school. He never give any of his emotions away. And I knew, I knew, and I knew he trusted me. He was the only person I think in the world that had a bet on me to win the golden boot in 1986. I think he got 16 to 1. But one of the most poignant things that ever happened in my life was that when my dad was seriously ill at the end, he had lung cancer. He was a massive smoker. So it wasn't a huge surprise”
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“Yeah, around the mid 20s, a little bit in Leicester, then I went to Everton, started scoring a lot of goals, so I started to get well known in England and play for the national team. But in terms of real fame was after the Mexico 86 World Cup, things changed dramatically. I remember arriving home and driving up back up north and stopped at a service station and it was just swarms and it was just incredible.”
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“She was born in Norfolk. She moved to Leicester when she was young. She was a hairdresser. I'm quite glamorous, and I mean, both my parents, I lost both of them about four or five years ago. They actually got divorced when I was about 2021, which I found really hard. But I could see it coming.”
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“Yeah, I was really. I was like my mother. My dad, my dad had a real temper. My brothers got a real temper. My mum was very calm, really calm all the time. Yeah.”
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“Closest I got was in Spain. That was a miracle surviving three years in Spain without a yellow card was staggering. The closest I got was when he gave a decision against me and I just laughed. He went for his pocket. I said, you're going to book me for laughing.”
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“It's not like it is now, Alistair. I mean, it's still ridiculous, but it's not like it is. I get a yellow cod now just for being in possession of large ears or something stupid. But in those days, I mean, as a forward, I used to think they had to commit grievous bodily harm to get a yellow card, the defenders. So it wasn't that common. I mean, people like, you know, remember Alan Smith had played it less and then Arsenal and played for England. I think he only had one. In fact, I played in the game, he had it. And he denies this, but I know it's true. Because the referee came home and he went to his pocket and he went in his bromy accounts, you know, give me a yellow card. Do you not know my disciplinary record? And I thought, no, I only got one”
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“You couldn't do that. I mean, I love Jot though. I mean, Jock made, you know, people talk about important people in your life and it's very easy to go off the rails as a young teenage lad that's done quite well in football. But he made sure I didn't go out at night. I'm dedicated and he just made sure I'd give myself the best possible chance to be successful.”
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“And I thought he's looking at me. And I thought, oh God. And then he came over and quite literally picked me up by the scuffle of the neck and pinned me against the dressing room. And I went, oh my God. I mean, I wouldn't have minded, but we were tuning up and I'd scored both goals. But I was a gibbering wreck in the second half. I was hopeless. And at the end of the game, he came in again. I was trembling. I was like, and he went. In the morning, I went okay, never slept a wink. I thought I was out, thought I was it. My career was over. And I got there about 8.45 and I sat outside like the naughty boy waiting for the headmaster. And he came in and he went. Okay, sat down trembling. And he goes”
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“Yeah, to manage, as a new manager, I'd kind of just get them reserves. I was 17 at the time. And I came in to the dressing room at half time and I sat down and Jot Wallace, first time I've seen him, marched in, slammed the door behind him. He was the size of Alice, a bit bigger, actually. Big wide. Super strong Scottish accent. And he came in and”
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“Absolutely. And I'll tell you, Jop Wallace, the first time I ever met Jop Wallace was a Leicester Reserve game. He just got the job.”
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“No, it's all. I dreamt of it. But to be absolutely frank, every level that I reached, I thought, this will find me out. I remember, you know, I was quite surprised they signed me in the first place as an apprentice, but then I scored goals. And then I got in the reserve team. You know, when you play in the reserve team, you play with one or two of the players that are not in. They were kind of my, you know, players that I'd admired. And I thought, what am I doing here? And then I got the first team. And I still”
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“I know. So I was so, and then I suddenly grew from 17 to 18, and then that's probably why my development, I was never like a child superstar. I wasn't a Michael Owen or a Wayne Rooney or anything like that or Jude Bellingham.”
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“Telling you though as a kid. I didn't really grow, I didn't reach puberty till I was about 17. Pretty damn embarrassing in the showers”
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“I played both cricket and football. It was always serious to me. Usually competitive sportsman showed me a sportsman that's not competitive.”
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“Was no, it was like a square, so a square of, say, counters, and in the middle he stood. And I used to go and work on holidays, Christmas, because Christmas particularly because it was really busy for him. And I think that made me want to be a footballer because it was too much like yours.”
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“Every day, but Sunday and Monday, he would get up at 3, 4 in the morning, go and buy all the fruit from the wholesaler, take it to the market store, set it all up, set it all day, do his bookwork, and then fall asleep.”
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