Legend has it Lineker was so poor growing up he used to have to practice football with potatoes. He would then sell the mangled potato shards at markets. These were the first crisps
His presentation on day 1 of MOTD 2017 in just his pants was just incredible. He kept his word. Love his passion for the game even after not playing for 27 years. His comment on Messi was the best description of Messi I've ever heard: 'Messi watches the game of football from above whilst he plays it at the same time'
@Roni Ties so youre saying Ronaldo is better because he's won more? If that was the case, Origi would be better than Harry Kane because he's won the UCL
@Roni Ties Absolutely boggles the mind how people can keep parroting this narrative that Messi is all natural talent where as CR7 just spent hours on the training ground. That close control and dribbling was produced from countless hours of drilling in training. Also he used to be crap at free kicks and is now the finest FK taker in Europe, that took plenty of hardwork and training. Also Cristiano is one of the finest physical athletes there is. He has the same vertical leap as the average NBA player and most of them are about 6 foot 7 where as CR7 is 6'1. So to act like he's a guy that spent hours in the gym and didn't have ridiculous natural talent is stupid.
@Roni Ties Right, because physicality isn't genetic in any way. Some people just have a great natural physical shape. Like Ronaldo. Moreover, what can Ronaldo do that Messi can't? Win headers? Is that it? Come on. Messi is a more gifted player. He's more fun to watch. And in my opinion, he's better. Only by a little though.
Ddv Sgd vertical leap doesn't matter how tall are you. Whether your 5'0" or 7'0" if your vertical leap is 40" (which is pretty good for an NBA player). It's the same, obviously you can jump higher because your taller but don't think he's "jumping as high as a 6'7 NBA player". They're both the same distance off the ground. Plus he's old...
As a Spurs fan, quite obsessive in the early 90s I loved this fella. Not so in later years but I would thank him for my 18th Birthday card. Just for donating blood. A stock, printed card with a printed signature
Why would you gloss over his time at Barcelona like that? He won his most important trophy here, the Cup Winner's Cup, and a Copa del Rey, and scored 52 in 137.
Because Barcelona got absolutely dominated in the 80s. Real won 5 in a row and Hugo Sanchez was scoring goals for fun. Barca brought in stars like lineker, schuster and maradona and couldn’t come close to RM. Until Barca brought in the dream team - Stoichkov, koman, etc.
I think it would be a nice idea to do a brief history of Everton in the 80s. I think people forget how good they were during that decade because English clubs were banned from Europe so they couldn’t have a historic run in the competition like Forest or Villa before them.
He is a great guy, I really admire his style in MOTD and watching the show has brought me even closer to the beautiful world of English Football. Greetings from Finland.
Alex Guerrier you guys know ‘walkers’ as ‘lays’ I believe :) and chips for you = Crisps for us , fries for you = chips for us although we also use the word fries it depends what type they are. Isn’t English a wonderful language xD
@@millwallholdings They could get 3 or 4 random blokes from the nearest pub to do what Lineker, Shearer, Wright and the rest do, and for far lower salaries.
Gary Lineker was a great player. A master at spotting a defenders weaknesses ,analysing them hawking them waiting to pounce, he new when they were letting up and starting to rest and there he was to poach at that he was the best, he may not have been a dribbler or master passer of the ball, but he could score from nowhere at that the best of all!
As a young fan of course, never saw him in action or saw his media career start but one thing is for sure he is superb on TV, even if he was a spud 😏. He’s definitely a Class act.
It would've been really interesting had Lineker took his place in Everton's European Cup campaign in 85/86. It by his own admission was the best side he ever played in. Yet we were cheated out of it by that unjust ban.
It may be worth noting that his move into the media was planned while he was a player, always looking behind the scenes at interviews asking how things worked. He was called "mini Motty" in reference to john motson. A famous commentator in the UK.
The goal he scored in the semi final of Italia 90 against the Germans was him in a nutshell. If you gave him a sniff of a chance in the box he buried it.
5:30 You left out his career highlight... Italia '90, Cagliari, June 21 (1990), England versus Republic of Ireland: scoring a 9th minute goal and then getting caught short or, as he put it in an interview, "relaxing himself" on the pitch in the second half ;-) England got properly lucky against the Roger Milla-inspited Cameroun in the quarter final...
They forgot to mention his efforts to help rescue Leicester from bankruptcy/administration which then began the greatest comeback story in the history of sports.
I think people don't talk about him because 1. Lineker doesn't have a massive ego like someone with his achievements might do, and 2. because he wasn't particularly a flashy player, and 3. during his playing days he was very low key and had somewhat a private, quiet, and arguably boring demeanor... But this dude was absolutely a world class striker in his days, just think Lewandowski, Van Nistelrooy or Trezeguet in the modern era
because I know you looked it up too Nagoya Grampus Eight is probably famous for being Wenger's pre-Arsenal club Wenger did not manage Lineker, Wenger joined about 18 months after he left
And yet, despite 30 goals Everton seemed diminished with him that year. It was like a team that had been put together to score from all over the pitch suddenly had to channel and ficus on one player and we lost that extra gear we had the season before, with Andy Gray and the season after with "no-name" Wayne Clarke. Rather than the old chestnut about him soiling himself in a world cup semi final, it would have been better to focus on the way he flagged to Bobby Robson that Gascoigne was falling to pieces - the "keep your eyes on him" signal. That shows him for the profoundly decent man and well as the thinking footballer he was.
@@Xani41 Competition was a lot more then, lots of strong teams all over Europe, not like today where most of the world class players play in the typical "big teams" (PSG, Barca, Bayern, Madrid, Juve, etc).
If Everton pay £800,000 in 1985. How much would Lineker be worth to Everton today? Lineker one better England Captain. Sad how Linker end this England Career. 80 England caps & 48 goals not bad at all.
Yes, although to be fair, I don't recall seeing him ever try to tackle a player, interceptions yes, but not tackles. That's not a criticism, just that I think he tried to focus as a striker and his runs. The only fouls he ever committed, was if he was caught offside on making a run. Also, the other reason was he was never the type to backchat a referee, regardless of how bad the decision.
IIRC, he wasn't the only foreign star to join the J-League at the time: think every team of the inaugural season had at least someone of note. Zico at Kashima Antlers comes to mind.
That Everton team of the mid-80s was a machine. Alas often overlooked by the media when they look back on great sides. They missed a treble of titles by 2 points and lost Neville Southall in the 85/86 run in when on International duty on a disgrace of a pitch in Dublin that wasn't fit for planting spuds never mind playing Football.
So what you're saying is that the last time Tottenham won major silverware that wasnt the efl cup, Linekar was still a player 3 decades ago? Thats brutal.
0:43 Everton were one of the powerhouses of English football in the 1980's NOT 1990's! Everton escaped relegation by skin of their teeth in 94 and 98, and would have gone down in 99 had it not been for Kevin Campbell's goals.
When he first started as a TV Presenter he was really really bad, but he stuck at it and has been very good for many years. You would never have believed he would be from his start. Seems one of his outstanding personal characteristics is an internal tenacity.
He and Damien Hill could be brothers. They both sound the same, talk the same, roughly have the same presenting style and have the same salt and pepper hair colour.
Football manager hard-coded Linekers ID in the yellow card/red card subroutine so that it was impossible for the virtual Lineker to get a card in a football manager game.
He's also a big fan of crisps.
And he drops logs on the pitch
@@charliepollock3886 Wasn't a log to be fair. It had too much liquidity for it to be a log.
Cheers
@Bub Zilla 😂🤣
Legend has it Lineker was so poor growing up he used to have to practice football with potatoes. He would then sell the mangled potato shards at markets. These were the first crisps
Lmao fuck off 😂
You had me in the first half lol
Poor maybe, but always had underpants at least 😂
This is the content I didn't even realise I needed.
Dont forget about the time he shat himself on the pitch.... elite striker tho
I knew someone would bring that up 😂😂😂🤦🏿♂️
Lmao
Hahaha
I'm happy Tifo didn't mention that!
Yes. We know. Boring edgelords on the internet never shut up about it.
His presentation on day 1 of MOTD 2017 in just his pants was just incredible. He kept his word. Love his passion for the game even after not playing for 27 years.
His comment on Messi was the best description of Messi I've ever heard: 'Messi watches the game of football from above whilst he plays it at the same time'
@Roni Ties so youre saying Ronaldo is better because he's won more? If that was the case, Origi would be better than Harry Kane because he's won the UCL
His pants were ridiculous though, they were huge
@Roni Ties Absolutely boggles the mind how people can keep parroting this narrative that Messi is all natural talent where as CR7 just spent hours on the training ground. That close control and dribbling was produced from countless hours of drilling in training. Also he used to be crap at free kicks and is now the finest FK taker in Europe, that took plenty of hardwork and training. Also Cristiano is one of the finest physical athletes there is. He has the same vertical leap as the average NBA player and most of them are about 6 foot 7 where as CR7 is 6'1. So to act like he's a guy that spent hours in the gym and didn't have ridiculous natural talent is stupid.
@Roni Ties Right, because physicality isn't genetic in any way. Some people just have a great natural physical shape. Like Ronaldo. Moreover, what can Ronaldo do that Messi can't? Win headers? Is that it? Come on. Messi is a more gifted player. He's more fun to watch. And in my opinion, he's better. Only by a little though.
Ddv Sgd vertical leap doesn't matter how tall are you. Whether your 5'0" or 7'0" if your vertical leap is 40" (which is pretty good for an NBA player). It's the same, obviously you can jump higher because your taller but don't think he's "jumping as high as a 6'7 NBA player". They're both the same distance off the ground. Plus he's old...
As a Spurs fan, quite obsessive in the early 90s I loved this fella. Not so in later years but I would thank him for my 18th Birthday card. Just for donating blood. A stock, printed card with a printed signature
Why would you gloss over his time at Barcelona like that? He won his most important trophy here, the Cup Winner's Cup, and a Copa del Rey, and scored 52 in 137.
Because Barcelona got absolutely dominated in the 80s. Real won 5 in a row and Hugo Sanchez was scoring goals for fun. Barca brought in stars like lineker, schuster and maradona and couldn’t come close to RM. Until Barca brought in the dream team - Stoichkov, koman, etc.
@@SKa-tt9nmmaradona left before Madrid’s dominance
I think it would be a nice idea to do a brief history of Everton in the 80s. I think people forget how good they were during that decade because English clubs were banned from Europe so they couldn’t have a historic run in the competition like Forest or Villa before them.
All because of Liverpool
@@dark_yanda that Howard Kendall would run the Europe
@@dark_yanda 39 = 96
Why were English clubs banned in the 80s??
@@justaharmlesspotato9653 I think there was a fight between juventus and Liverpool in a European final and 39 Italians died
He is a great guy, I really admire his style in MOTD and watching the show has brought me even closer to the beautiful world of English Football. Greetings from Finland.
What Lineker is famous for:
- Shitting himself in a WC game
- Shagging crisps
Also Bottling it wearing shorts and grandstanding to people about voting remain whilst evading a bunch of taxes offshore
What are crisps? (American speaking)
@@alexguerrier9363 Americans call them chips. It's a reference to how he is the mascot of Walkers, which is a large snack company in the UK.
Alex Guerrier you guys know ‘walkers’ as ‘lays’ I believe :) and chips for you = Crisps for us , fries for you = chips for us although we also use the word fries it depends what type they are. Isn’t English a wonderful language xD
Wha about goals not a true football fan obviously
Absolutely love this, great video about a great man, whom I knew too little about
That’s so strange. I was just reading about his career and then this gets uploaded a few minutes later.
J do you know this weeks Euromillions numbers?
Tifo hacked your account and used your browsing history for ideas...
Were you reading The Athletic? :p
You need to call Mr Snowden, pronto!!
Shourya Das hahah no I was just on Wikipedia
Great player, great broadcaster
Richard Obidegwu and full of shit on Twitter
Good goalscorer not a great footballer imho , average boring presenter
@@millwallholdings he done his job as a striker. And one of the best in the world at it. No team would not want him in there team even today.
@@millwallholdings They could get 3 or 4 random blokes from the nearest pub to do what Lineker, Shearer, Wright and the rest do, and for far lower salaries.
Gary Lineker was a great player. A master at spotting a defenders weaknesses ,analysing them hawking them waiting to pounce, he new when they were letting up and starting to rest and there he was to poach at that he was the best, he may not have been a dribbler or master passer of the ball, but he could score from nowhere at that the best of all!
Harry Kane has the finishing of Lineker with the vocals of Beardsley
Beautiful piece. Always doing a good job. Just wanted to encourage you. Big ups
And a thoroughly decent bloke with zero narcissistic tendencies.
Everton were a "footballing powerhouse" in the 1980s - not the 1990s
Also it was his consortium that saved Leicester City when they went into administration in the early 2000's.
As a young fan of course, never saw him in action or saw his media career start but one thing is for sure he is superb on TV, even if he was a spud 😏. He’s definitely a Class act.
He also shat himself during a game once
Amazing finisher
A brilliant tribute to his playing career.
jeff malone 👍 yes, surprised they didn’t mention that!
It would've been really interesting had Lineker took his place in Everton's European Cup campaign in 85/86. It by his own admission was the best side he ever played in. Yet we were cheated out of it by that unjust ban.
Love these vids. Cover a wide range. Current stuff plus things i grew up with. Top content
I'm sorry but I watch this channel because the mic quality is amazing
Also never recieved even a yellow card in his whole career
Only because he never tackled anybody.
COYH, UTT Yeah that seems likely in a 16 year career. What an ignorant comment
@@poshboy111 awww😭
He did get a red though
ural wong He actually didn’t. He was even honoured with a FIFA fair play award as a result
It may be worth noting that his move into the media was planned while he was a player, always looking behind the scenes at interviews asking how things worked. He was called "mini Motty" in reference to john motson. A famous commentator in the UK.
He also said, that Everton team was better than anything in Europe. Best team he played in.
And Liverpool was better than Everton.
@@SKa-tt9nm at that moment, no it wasn't, although they were the closest team to them
@@SKa-tt9nm When they were finishing 2nd to them in 85 and 87 ?
Absolutely lethal finisher was Lineker.
The goal he scored in the semi final of Italia 90 against the Germans was him in a nutshell. If you gave him a sniff of a chance in the box he buried it.
5:30
You left out his career highlight...
Italia '90, Cagliari, June 21 (1990), England versus Republic of Ireland: scoring a 9th minute goal and then getting caught short or, as he put it in an interview, "relaxing himself" on the pitch in the second half ;-)
England got properly lucky against the Roger Milla-inspited Cameroun in the quarter final...
Underrated. Also a good guy.
Fantastic video. Thank you!
Legend as a player and a presenter/journo. He's pretty much the only one worth listening to.
Two surprise omissions: Many other players said he was incredibly lazy in training and he received a remarkable lack of yellow/red cards.
Maybe do a video on Alex Ferguson before he won premier leagues at man united
Lineker, from Toffees to Crisps.
He also had a west end play written about the 1990 semi final with his name in the title, "An Evening with Gary Lineker."
They forgot to mention his efforts to help rescue Leicester from bankruptcy/administration which then began the greatest comeback story in the history of sports.
Got an advert for Walkers crisps before watching this. How fitting.
I think people don't talk about him because 1. Lineker doesn't have a massive ego like someone with his achievements might do, and 2. because he wasn't particularly a flashy player, and 3. during his playing days he was very low key and had somewhat a private, quiet, and arguably boring demeanor... But this dude was absolutely a world class striker in his days, just think Lewandowski, Van Nistelrooy or Trezeguet in the modern era
If not for Maradona's Hand of God in WC86, he could arguably have lead the England squad to the WC final
Paul Ansorge's scripts are always amazing!
I love the art style of these videos so much, but that leicester logo at 1:25 is something else haha
Not brought to you by the athletic?!
Impossible
England 86 and 90 would not have been achieved without Lineker.
love your videos tifo
I admire him a lot
So you're not gonna mention how he shit myself on the pitch. Ok😅😂
One of the best poachers that has ever played the game.
because I know you looked it up too
Nagoya Grampus Eight is probably famous for being Wenger's pre-Arsenal club
Wenger did not manage Lineker, Wenger joined about 18 months after he left
Should do these for more players
Maradona dies but his images recorded for future generations to watch. Lineker gathered this story by his side.
The nicest person on football television...
I enjoyed this.
And yet, despite 30 goals Everton seemed diminished with him that year. It was like a team that had been put together to score from all over the pitch suddenly had to channel and ficus on one player and we lost that extra gear we had the season before, with Andy Gray and the season after with "no-name" Wayne Clarke.
Rather than the old chestnut about him soiling himself in a world cup semi final, it would have been better to focus on the way he flagged to Bobby Robson that Gascoigne was falling to pieces - the "keep your eyes on him" signal. That shows him for the profoundly decent man and well as the thinking footballer he was.
Anyone know what the background music is called?
2029... Harry Kane is presenter of Match of The Day
ChubbyChecker182 dont think so as he would need to be able to speak properly to present
Can TV ordinance hear what Harry Kane says?
We will need subtitles
Okay then, maybe Peter Beardsley :-)
and he's still yet to present a show in his underwear.
Nearly came to United in the summer of 1985 before he went to Everton.
Awesome video as always. How about one on Ledley King?
What's the background music called?
Links was a goal animal at international level, won Golden boot at 86 World Cup
Such a fine man
props for not just looping that Stewart Lee routine for 50 minutes. That would have been funnier though
Englands footballing National treasure
I always pretended to be either Lineker or Bryan Robson in the school play ground. Icon
Do one about his brother
One of the best pundits of all time, and a very good player during his time.
Dont Forget he was a very fair player
didn’t know he was that successful as a player, nice
He wasn’t.
@@Xani41 yes he was... literally one of the best strikers ever lol
Young City Bandit one of the best 200 strikers in Europe maybe
Roni Ties no league title and no international trophy 🤷🏽♂️
A few cups here and there
@@Xani41 Competition was a lot more then, lots of strong teams all over Europe, not like today where most of the world class players play in the typical "big teams" (PSG, Barca, Bayern, Madrid, Juve, etc).
Monday motivation
Kerry Dixon 24 goals I'm in shock. Hardly knew him.
If Everton pay £800,000 in 1985. How much would Lineker be worth to Everton today? Lineker one better England Captain. Sad how Linker end this England Career. 80 England caps & 48 goals not bad at all.
Is it true that he was never booked ?
Aidan Dempsey yup. The close he got was when a ref in Spain didn’t like the fact lineker smiled at him.
Yes, although to be fair, I don't recall seeing him ever try to tackle a player, interceptions yes, but not tackles. That's not a criticism, just that I think he tried to focus as a striker and his runs.
The only fouls he ever committed, was if he was caught offside on making a run.
Also, the other reason was he was never the type to backchat a referee, regardless of how bad the decision.
He is also a great striker in Fifa
Everton "who were one of the powerhouses of English football in the 1990s" did I hear that right
Do a video on the Makelele Role
IIRC, he wasn't the only foreign star to join the J-League at the time: think every team of the inaugural season had at least someone of note.
Zico at Kashima Antlers comes to mind.
That Everton team of the mid-80s was a machine. Alas often overlooked by the media when they look back on great sides. They missed a treble of titles by 2 points and lost Neville Southall in the 85/86 run in when on International duty on a disgrace of a pitch in Dublin that wasn't fit for planting spuds never mind playing Football.
Everton were a powerhouse of English Football in the 1980's, NOT the 1990's as you state. A ridiculous oversight.
Do a video of how Granada fc playing so good
My striker in Fut 20
So what you're saying is that the last time Tottenham won major silverware that wasnt the efl cup, Linekar was still a player 3 decades ago? Thats brutal.
i love striker like this lineker, inzaghi (my idol), van nistelrooy..berbatov....lazy..super opportunist
A brief history of Hugo Sanchez next?
I always called him the walkers guy. Little Di I know he was a top player
Do one of Paul Scholes
0:43 Everton were one of the powerhouses of English football in the 1980's NOT 1990's!
Everton escaped relegation by skin of their teeth in 94 and 98, and would have gone down in 99 had it not been for Kevin Campbell's goals.
THE Fox in the box!!!!
I started to love football by watching him played for spurs
When he first started as a TV Presenter he was really really bad, but he stuck at it and has been very good for many years.
You would never have believed he would be from his start.
Seems one of his outstanding personal characteristics is an internal tenacity.
It’s so wild to me how a player that small was so deadly in traffic in the box in the 80s when you could basically take a machete out and use it
He wasn’t that small. Some of the highest PL scorers were under 6 feet.
He and Damien Hill could be brothers. They both sound the same, talk the same, roughly have the same presenting style and have the same salt and pepper hair colour.
I know him cause of FUT
Football manager hard-coded Linekers ID in the yellow card/red card subroutine so that it was impossible for the virtual Lineker to get a card in a football manager game.
You forgot to mention the first Barca player to score a hat trick at the Bernabau
That was the important part of the fact
The famous Gazza starts crying, it doesn't look good face to camera.
FlapjackGTHD THE greatest fourth wall break in the history of TV. At that moment we were all in Turin
Gary Lineker - Shat his briefs historically.
Alan Hanson after retirement next vid 😉
Brian Clough‘s tactics would be nice 🤔🤔🤔
Do a video on John TOSHACK!!!!! Why have you not done one yet!?!?!?!?! Do it now!!!!!!!!!!! Get to the chopper!!!
Damn, I thought he was just journalist/broadcaster