Never got the hate for Lineker.
He is bright, witty and crucially for me, doesn’t appear to have been egregiously diminished by fame. He also has a regional accent in a world that is replete with posh boys. Would say, given what his dad did for a living, he was working class - and we need more genuinely working class presenters at the BBC. The BBC is tediously bourgeois. And if I’m saying that, fuck me it must be bad.
Think he’d be seriously engaging company on a night out. I would say he was very well read. Think I’d really enjoy his company.
Some say he’s ‘smug’. Just don’t see that. And I spend my working day surrounded by smug cunts.
Mate of mine was in Lineker’s company on a piss-up 20 or so years ago. Said he was an “absolute disgrace“. And amazing company.
That‘ll do for me.