Gary Lineker

Gary Lineker (born 30 November 1960) is an English retired footballer. He has played for the English national team. He scored 48 goals for the English national team. He then went on television on the BBC on Match of the Day.  He was the highest paid presenter at the BBC.  In 2020 he was paid  £1.75 million.

In March 2023 he tweeted about the proposed  Illegal Migration Bill: "This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the '30s, and I'm out of order?".   The BBC wanted him to apologise for making a political comment, but he wouldnt. They then took him off Match of the Day.  The other people from the show all supported him.  So did many other sport presenters.  In May 2025, he was heavily criticised and forced to apologise after reposting an anti-Zionist message on social media which itself invoked 1930s Germany.  

 Club career statisics 

|-
|1978–79||rowspan="7"|Leicester City||rowspan="2"|Second Division||7||1||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||7||1
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|1979–80||19||3||1||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||20||3
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|1980–81||First Division||9||2||1||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||10||3
|-
|1981–82||rowspan="2"|Second Division||39||17||5||2||3||0||colspan="2"|-||47||19
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|1982–83||40||26||1||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||43||26
|-
|1983–84||rowspan="2"|First Division||39||22||1||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||41||22
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|1984–85||41||24||4||3||3||2||colspan="2"|-||48||29
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|1985–86||Everton||First Division||41||30||6||5||5||3||colspan="2"|-||52||38

|-
|1986–87||rowspan="3"|Barcelona||rowspan="3"|La Liga||41||21||1||1||colspan="2"|-||8||0||50||22
|-
|1987–88||36||16||5||2||colspan="2"|-||9||2||50||20
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|1988–89||26||6||4||1||colspan="2"|-||8||4||38||11

|-
|1989–90||rowspan="3"|Tottenham Hotspur||rowspan="3"|First Division||38||24||1||0||6||2||colspan="2"|-||45||26
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|1990–91||32||15||6||3||5||1||colspan="2"|-||43||19
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|1991–92||35||28||2||0||5||5||8||2||50||35

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|1993||rowspan="2"|Nagoya Grampus Eight||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||7||1||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||7||1
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|1994||11||3||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||18||3
340||192||28||14||30||13||8||2||406||221
103||43||10||4||colspan="2"|-||25||6||138||53
18||3||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||18||3
461||238||38||18||30||13||33||8||562||277
|}

 International career statistics 

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|1984||1||0
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|1985||9||6
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|1986||10||8
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|1987||7||9
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|1988||10||3
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|1989||9||3
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|1990||15||8
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|1991||11||10
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|1992||8||1
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!Total||80||48
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References

Other websites
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Category:1960 births
Category:Living people
Category:1986 FIFA World Cup players
Category:1990 FIFA World Cup players
Category:English footballers
Category:English sports commentators
Category:English television presenters
Category:Sportspeople from Leicester
Category:Everton F.C. players
Category:Leicester City F.C. players
Category:Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players
Category:FC Barcelona players
Category:J1 League players
Category:Nagoya Grampus players
Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire