Gary Lineker made a surprise return to BBC screens after his controversial exit after gatecrashing Micah Richards' analysis of England's World Cup quarter-final win over Norway. Lineker was supposed to front the BBC's coverage at this summer's World Cup in his final bow for the corporation after 26 years of service. However‚ he was stood down last May following backlash over a string of political social media posts‚ which included what he said was the unwitting sharing of a post on Instagram which featured a depiction of a rat - an image associated with antisemitism.
JONATHAN MCEVOY: One early blessing for us terrestrial TV viewers in the BBC's putative coverage of the World Cup is that we are spared the sanctimonious presence of its former morale-arbiter‚ the oh-so-Woke Gary Lineker. Saint Gary is doing fine‚ mind. His Goalhanger production company is on-site in New York with a daily Netflix show‚ reviewing the tournament with co-hosts Alan Shearer and Micah Richards. Mr Lineker is laughing all the way to the bank - in a reputed £14million deal - and good luck to our Golden Boot winner of 1986.
Two more damning interviews given to Spanish and French television by Jose Mourinho were called out as 'hypocrisy' by Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards‚ and met with fury by Thierry Henry‚ after the former Chelsea and Manchester United manager opted to blame Vinicius Jr for 'provoking' one of his Benfica players to allegedly racially abuse him. The Brazil international had been celebrating his 50th-minute wonder-goal when he was approached by Benfica winger Gianluca Prestianni‚ who said something to Vinicius with his shirt over his mouth. The Real Madrid star alleges that Prestianni called him a 'monkey'‚ while his team-mate Aurelien Tchouameni told reporters after the final whistle the Argentine had claimed he used a Spanish homophobic slur.
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Micah Richards left Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer stunned with the revelation that he had a very famous babysitter as a child. The former Manchester City and England defender‚ now pundit and TV personality‚ told his podcast co-hosts a world famous pop star from the 90s used to look after him as a child.
Micah Richards remembers the fear of it all‚ the panic of the big nights when he didn't know what to expect other than 90 minutes of torment. Bayern Munich were always the ones. Whether it was Franck Ribery or Arjen Robben‚ it felt like a pair of Red Arrows were hurtling down the runway towards him; Richards could handle pace but it was the fact both could deceive like master pickpockets and had more tricks than a magician.