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Lineker pulled one back and nearly equalised in the closing seconds, but England were out.
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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.
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The road running through the development is called Lineker Road, after Gary Lineker, one of Leicester City's most famous players.
" when Barnes was given the ball ), setting up one goal for Gary Lineker and laying on another chance which Lineker missed.
Bryan Robson famously said that, “ It ’ s not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst ” and, at one point, this looked inevitable.
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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.
Lineker spent three years at Barcelona, until Venables brought him back to England with his new club Tottenham Hotspur in 1989.
After forming a productive partnership with Paul Stewart, Walsh helped Spurs to a respectable sixth place, however, he suffered the following season as the White Hart Lane club brought Gary Lineker back to England from Spain.
At Spurs, the central defender or full back teamed up with England internationals Paul Gascoigne, Gary Mabbutt, Gary Lineker and Chris Waddle.
Lineker and equalised
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.
Lineker and England
Lineker began his football career at Leicester City and became known as a prolific goalscorer ; despite failing to score in his first ten games, he finished as the First Division's joint top goalscorer in 1984 – 85 and earned his first England cap.
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 1988, Lineker played in the Euro 1988, but failed to score as England lost all three Group games.
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.
However, he still maintained a regular place in defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure.
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 ).
He remains third in the all-time list of England goalscorers, behind Charlton and Gary Lineker.
England internationals Peter Shilton, Gary Lineker, David Nish, Steve Whitworth and Emile Heskey, as well as Don Revie, who played for and managed England all began their careers with the Foxes.
Kewell's transfer was highly controversial because it was alleged by former England captain, Gary Lineker, in an article in July 2003 that a significant portion (£ 2, 000, 000 of the £ 5, 000, 000 ) went to Kewell's unregistered agent, Bernie Mandic to ensure that he ended up at Anfield.
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.
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.
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.
England started strongly with Lineker hitting a post and Glen Hoddle striking the crossbar with a free-kick.
It was only a last-ditch goal from Gary Lineker against Poland that saw England qualify at the expense of the Irish.
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Walkers, a Leicester-based British producer of snack foods, temporarily named their salt and vinegar crisps after Lineker in the late 1990s — they were labelled ' Salt-n-Lineker '.
Lineker has been actively involved with other cancer charities such as Leukaemia Busters, where between 1994 and 2005 Gary and Michelle were the charity ’ s patrons.
The same year, Heskey made a six-figure donation to aid a consortium led by Gary Lineker in their bid to buy-out his former club, Leicester City, who were experiencing financial difficulties.
Having lost the league title to Liverpool a week earlier, derby rivals Everton were looking for revenge and took a 1 – 0 lead into the half-time break, courtesy of a Gary Lineker strike.
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.
They were once again drawn in the same group as England, which included Lineker, Robson, Beardsley and Barnes as well as Paul Gascoigne and Chris Waddle.
Lineker and out
Lineker still helped out on the stall at the height of his playing career during the late 1980s and early 1990s, though usually only in the closed season.
In a related matter, Kewell sued Lineker in 2005 for defamation of character, but, with the jury unable to agree on a verdict, the parties had to settle out of court.
Manager Terry Venables was hoping for him to be a successful strike partner for Gary Lineker, whom he had signed from United's rivals Everton, but Hughes was a disappointment in his only season at Barcelona and was subsequently loaned out to German club Bayern Munich for the 1987 – 88 season, where he regained his form.
If you do not believe me, then take the word of Gary Lineker who did not mind taking a swipe at his BBC bosses to point out how friendly and accommodating the locals have been.
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Gary Winston Lineker OBE ( born 30 November 1960 ) is an English former footballer, who played as a striker.
Lineker also worked on other programmes at the BBC.
Since 1994, Lineker has featured in several television commercials for Walkers Crisps.
He has four sons with his ex-wife Michelle and is now married to model Danielle Lineker.
In a senior career which spanned 16 years and 567 competitive games, Lineker scored a total of 282 goals at club level.
Lineker first attended Caldecote Road School ( Caldecote Juniors ), Braunstone in Leicester ( east of the Meridian Centre ) although he lived outside the borough.
Lineker was equally talented at both football and cricket.
Lineker left school with four O Levels.
Lineker began his career at his home town club Leicester City after leaving school.
Lineker began scoring prolifically in the early 1980s, helping Leicester win promotion to the First Division in 1980 and again in 1983.
However he began to break into being a regular starter in 1981 and forging a prolific strike-force alongside Alan Smith, Lineker hit 19 goals in all competitions in the 1981 – 82 season.
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.
While he was at Everton, they reached the FA Cup final for the third year in a row but they lost 3 – 1 to Liverpool, despite Lineker giving them an early lead when he outpaced Alan Hansen to score.
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.
After winning the Golden Boot at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, Lineker was signed by Barcelona for £ 2, 800, 000.
Lineker played in Barcelona's home and away defeats to Dundee United.
Barcelona manager Johan Cruyff decided to play Lineker on the right of the midfield and he eventually lost his place in the first team.
Alex Ferguson attempted to sign Lineker to partner his ex-Barcelona team-mate Mark Hughes in attack, but Lineker spurned the Manchester club.
This was despite Lineker having a goal controversially disallowed for offside and also having a penalty saved by goalkeeper Mark Crossley.
Lineker had contributed to Tottenham's run to the final.
Lineker ended his career with an injury-plagued spell in Japan's J.
Lineker also scored a brace against Paraguay in the second round of the tournament.
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