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My encounter from hell with Gary Lineker. His crass and ugly behaviour shocked me and I still regret not pulling him up on it, says presenter PETER BLEKSLEY. His departure will not come a moment too soon
I much preferred Lineker when he was hanging round the six-yard box for England rather than sounding off about political issues.
As an old-school copper, I count punctuality as one of the greatest human virtues and I considered this an act of crass unprofessionalism, especially as it was a hot day and there was a lot to get through. At one point a young female member of the team – probably fresh out of university – asked a perfectly innocent question and he unnecessarily snapped back at her. The Chinese may be slaughtering Uighurs and the Taliban banning girls from school but, in the world of Leicester City’s most famous son, only one geopolitical issue deserves our attention.
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