Lineker also worked on other programmes at the BBC.

This was despite Lineker having a goal controversially disallowed for offside and also having a penalty saved by goalkeeper Mark Crossley.

Lineker combined with Peter Beardsley, who also scored — to effortlessly dismantle the South American team's defence.

Five years later, a TV advert for Walkers Crisps ( also featuring Gary Lineker ) referenced Gascoigne's tearful appearance in the semi-final.

Mariner won two more England caps but a sign of things to come had arrived in the shape of Mark Hateley, a tall but skillful young striker exactly in the Mariner mould, while Gary Lineker and Peter Beardsley also establishing themselves as an international strikers.

He has also written a body of serious or semi-serious work, including stage plays such as An Evening with Gary Lineker.

He was also the most high profile English footballer to move to Spanish football since Gary Lineker had moved to FC Barcelona from Everton in 1986.

The game also features voice-overs by Des Lynam and Gary Lineker in the team schedules.

Humphrey also hosted the afternoon show at the Olympics for the BBC in Beijing in 2008, and co-hosted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 with Gary Lineker and Sue Barker.

Lineker made his England debut in 1984 and over the following eight years earned 80 caps and scored 48 goals, finishing as England's all-time second highest scorer behind Bobby Charlton.

In a senior career which spanned 16 years and 567 competitive games, Lineker scored a total of 282 goals at club level.

In the 1985 close season, Lineker was sold to defending league champions Everton for £ 800, 000, and scored 40 goals in 57 games for his new team.

Lineker scored three hat-tricks for Everton ; at home to Birmingham City in a 4 – 1 league win on 31 August 1985, at home to Manchester City in a 4 – 0 home win on 11 February 1986, and then in the penultimate league game of the season on 3 May 1986, when they kept their title hopes alive with a 6 – 1 home win over Southampton.

As of 26 August 2008, Owen has been capped 89 times for England and scored 40 goals: he is fourth in the list of all-time top scorers for the England team, behind Bobby Charlton ( 49 goals ), Gary Lineker ( 48 ) and Jimmy Greaves ( 44 ).

In extra time he found Gary Lineker with a through-ball from which Lineker won, and subsequently scored, a penalty which proved to be the winning goal.

In their absences, Shilton was handed the captaincy as England found their form to defeat Poland 3 – 0 in their final group game – Gary Lineker scored them all – and progress to the second round.

Lineker scored twice and Peter Beardsley once as England went through 3 – 0 and into a quarter final meeting with Argentina, a match which again would ultimately form part of the legend of Shilton's whole career.

England scored seven goals in the tournament, of which Lineker scored six ( winning the Golden Boot for doing so ); the other goal came from Beardsley in a 3 – 0 victory over Paraguay in the second round.

He then sold Gray to Aston Villa and brought in Gary Lineker who scored more than 30 goals in the 1985 – 86 season and established himself as a world class striker before his transfer to FC Barcelona.

Gary Lineker made it two, and although Alan Smith pulled one back for the Gunners before half-time, Lineker scored again in the second half to seal the result.

In what proved to be his last England match, against Sweden at Euro 1992, he was substituted by England coach Graham Taylor, in favour of Arsenal striker Alan Smith, ultimately denying Lineker the chance to equal — or even better — Charlton's record of 49 goals.

In May 2010, Lineker resigned from his role as columnist for The Mail on Sunday in protest over the sting operation against Lord Triesman that jeopardised England ’ s bid to host the 2018 World Cup.

Neither happened, but the first genuine sign of competition came in 1987, when the Nottingham Forest left back and captain Stuart Pearce was given his England debut against Brazil and played well, setting up England's goal for Gary Lineker.

It was only a last-ditch goal from Gary Lineker against Poland that saw England qualify at the expense of the Irish.

England won the group after a 1-1 draw with Ireland, a 0-0 draw with the Dutch ( in which England had two goals disallowed from Stuart Pearce and Gary Lineker ) and a 1-0 win against Egypt.

He has a great ability to save penalty kicks – he, former Nottingham Forest goalkeeper team mate Dave Beasant and Chelsea ' keeper Petr Čech remain the only goalkeepers to save a penalty ( outside of a shootout ) in the FA Cup Final, against Gary Lineker in 1991.

The first group game on 12 June was against an England team that included Gary Lineker, Bryan Robson and Houghton's club mates Peter Beardsley and John Barnes.

Gary Lineker, the broadcaster and former England captain, recalls the terror he felt when Jock Wallace, then manager of Leicester City, " pinned me against the dressing room wall at half-time and called me a lazy English this and that.

In 1993 Japanese J-League side Nagoya Grampus Eight who at the time featured former England striker Gary Lineker toured Australia, training in Tasmania for a month, and playing a friendly against the senior Tasmanian state side.

With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley.

There they faced Paraguay, and it was a sliding, stretching Hodge who kept in an over-hit cross from Glenn Hoddle, by pushing the ball into the path of Lineker to tap home.

After they went 1 – 0 down early in the second half, Gascoigne's Spurs team-mate Gary Lineker equalised for England with ten minutes remaining to force extra time.

The Blues opened the scoring when Gary Lineker outpaced Alan Hansen to shoot past Grobbelaar at the second attempt and held this lead until half-time as Liverpool struggled to find their usual rhythm.

It was his 119th appearance for his country as England drew 1 – 1 with the Republic of Ireland in the opening group game ; Shilton would later perform heroics as England got through the group, beat Belgium 1 – 0 in the second round match, and then edged past Cameroon 3 – 2 in the quarter finals, thanks to two Lineker penalties after England went 2 – 1 down.

Beardsley contributed in that match with a spectacular cross to Steve Hodge, which allowed Hodge to make England's second goal for Lineker.

He ended the tournament, during which Brazil were memorably eliminated by France at the quarter-final stage, with five goals, placing him second in the Golden Boot rankings behind England ’ s Gary Lineker.

However, in the second half, Bonner produced a number of outstanding saves to keep Ireland in the lead, most notably from Gary Lineker, and was named Man of the Match.

It paid dividends, as Steven combined down his flank with Stevens, as ever, to set up an opening goal for Gary Lineker ; Hodge then set up Lineker's second, and Steven delivered a corner which went uncleared, allowing Lineker to complete his hat-trick.

Hodge's superb left wing cross on the run gave Gary Lineker his second goal in a first half hat-trick which eased England's passage to the second round.

Maradona did get an outstanding individual second goal minutes later, before Hodge set up a chance for substitute Barnes to beat two defenders and cross for Lineker to score.

After an impressive first half display, he seemed likely to be given the nod ahead of Shearer to partner Gary Lineker for the second period until Shearer put England ahead on the stroke of half-time.