I don't know how he's done it but former Spurs hero Gary Lineker has landed himself basically the best life ever. On top of holding the honour of the joint-leading England goal-scorer of all-time, Lineker has managed to land himself not only a hot chick half his age, but also a working existence based purely on watching football and golf. Click to continue reading...

He's the face of middle class football, the BBC and also Walkers Crisps, so beneath that competently ironed shirt and silver fox hairstreaks Gary Lineker must be perfect, right? On the pitch, his behaviour was always exemplary; never received a booking, never mouthed off at an official and never even casually mooned the opposition fans. Click to continue reading...

A metaphorical tip of the hat has to go to Private Eye here, as many of these have also appeared in their famous ‘Colemanballs' section (and subsequent series of books) over the years. For those not down, David Coleman is an old sports commentator famed for his verbal faux-pas and the magazine started a 'Colemanballs' section years ago, which was then extended to cover all sports casters, as the yanks like to call them. Click to continue reading...

A little while ago, we ran a piece agreeing with some comments Gary Lineker made in reference to making this new Wembley an intimidating fortress. Now, as infrequently as I agree with Mr Lineker, he was spot-on, and now it seems that Ray Wilkins is getting in on the bandwagon, with comments like this in preparation for Wednesday's make-or-break European Championship qualifier against group winners Croatia: "When Scotland and Italy walked out (on Saturday) you couldn't hear yourself think, but we don't have that at Wembley and we need to start producing that. Click to continue reading...