Gary Lineker: Nobody Knows My Politics
Outgoing BBC football pundit Gary Lineker has had an interview with The Telegraph published today, the day after he had to issue an “unreserved apology” for posting a ‘Zionism Explained’ Instagram story with a rat emoji. Fresh calls for the BBC to sack Lineker followed…
The footballer said he doesn’t “care about the backlash” over his comments on the Gaza conflict and that “if you’re silent on these issues, you’re almost complicit.” He then hilariously went on to insist that no one knows his politics:
“I’ve never been overly loud with my politics. I won’t get involved in politics, I never really have. Apart from the Brexit vote, because I did a lot of research on that and decided, ‘This could be worse than we think’. I never back a government. I might criticise Sir Keir Starmer on Israel. But nobody knows my politics.”
After that declaration, Lineker turned to Elon Musk, saying “It’s like you’ve got Bond villains in charge of America.” Co-conspirators will remember that Gary was actually suspended by the BBC in 2023 for breaking impartiality rules after tweeting that the Tory government was using language “not dissimilar to that of Germany in the 30s” over its “immeasurably cruel” migration policy. That wasn’t his only Tory-bashing post. Another own goal…