Gary Lineker EXCLUSIVE: ‘Leicester City winning Premier League title was the greatest sporting moment of my life – and I wasn’t even involved!’
Gary Lineker has told talkSPORT his beloved Leicester City’s stunning Premier League title victory was ‘the greatest sporting moment’ of his life.
The 58-year-old footballer-turned-broadcaster (and professional potato flogger) is a legend of the game – a Second Division champion with the Foxes, an FA Cup winner with Tottenham, a Copa del Rey winner with Barcelona.
He is also regarded as one of the finest goalscorers ever to wear a Three Lions shirt, holding the England record for most goals scored at the World Cup, winning the 1986 World Cup Golden Boot and finishing his international career with one of the best goals-to-game ratios in the nation’s history.
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Perhaps most significantly, he was honoured with a FIFA Fair Play Award for never being booked in his entire 15-year career.
But Lineker says one achievement beats all the rest – Claudio Ranieri’s Leicester City being crowned the champions of England in 2016… even if he wasn’t remotely involved… and that it meant he had to present the next episode of Match of the Day in his pants.
Speaking about his love for the Foxes, he told Hawksbee and Jacobs on Thursday: “When you’re a player, you’re a player. Whichever club you’re playing for, that’s your club and you inherit the rivalries of that club.
“But what genuinely surprised me is that when I finished playing all that went away and all of a sudden I was a Leicester fan again, and that gradually grew and grew and grew.
“When Leicester won the league, I genuinely feel that was the best sporting moment of my life – and I had no part in it whatsoever!
“It was nothing to do with me, but it was my club and it was a miracle.
“And it was one of those very rare things where most of the country wanted the same thing, but it was my team.”
Lineker joined talkSPORT to promote his and Danny Baker’s new book ‘Behind Closed Doors’, which is inspired by their number one podcast.