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 also scored a brace against Paraguay in the second round of the tournament.

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

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 1988, Lineker played in the Euro 1988, but failed to score as England lost all three Group games.

Lineker spent three years at Barcelona, until Venables brought him back to England with his new club Tottenham Hotspur in 1989.

Whereas Lineker had developed into a world class goalscorer after moving from Leicester to Everton ( along with subsequent clubs FC Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur ), Newell's form at Goodison Park was less spectacular as he formed a three-man strikeforce with Graeme Sharp and Tony Cottee, and with three strikers in the first eleven there was little pressure on any of them to score 20 or 30 goals a season.

Since 1994, Lineker has featured in several television commercials for Walkers Crisps.

Despite his long career, Lineker was never cautioned by a referee for foul play ( never once receiving a yellow or red card ).

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.

After winning the Golden Boot at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, Lineker was signed by Barcelona for £ 2, 800, 000.

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

Following the departure of Steve Rider from the BBC, Lineker, who is a keen recreational golfer with a handicap of four, became the new presenter for the BBC's golf coverage.

In 2005, Lineker was sued for defamation by Australian footballer Harry Kewell over comments Lineker had made writing in his column in the Sunday Telegraph about Kewell's transfer from Leeds United to Liverpool.

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.

Lineker currently anchors the English language football coverage for Al Jazeera Sports, which is broadcast throughout much of the Middle East.

In 1998, Lineker provided his voice ( along with Des Lynam ) for the menu screens in EA Sports ' World Cup 98.

Wright did not make it into the squad for Euro 1992 at the expense of Clough, Gary Lineker of Tottenham Hotspur, Alan Shearer of Southampton and Arsenal team mates Alan Smith and Paul Merson.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

" when Barnes was given the ball ), setting up one goal for Gary Lineker and laying on another chance which Lineker missed.

Venables brought two British strikers to Barcelona in 1986 — Gary Lineker from Everton and Mark Hughes from Manchester United.

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.

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.

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.

His oldest son George survived a rare form of leukaemia as a baby in the early 1990s ; Lineker now supports children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent and has since appeared in adverts encouraging people to give blood as a result.

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.

Lineker also worked on other programmes at the BBC.

Lineker was equally talented at both football and cricket.

Lineker began his career at his home town club Leicester City after leaving school.

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.

It transpired in the case that the article had actually been ghost-written by a journalist at the Sunday Telegraph following a telephone interview with Lineker.

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.

Other famous Slade fans include, English ex-football player Gary Lineker and Welsh football player Nigel Vaughan, whom Lea and Hill visited on Boxing Day, 1989 at the football grounds of Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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.

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.

* 20th century famous residents have included Richard Beckinsale, former footballer Gary Lineker, British pop group Five Star who resided at the Stone Court estate, London Road, between 1987 and 1990, Chesney Hawkes, Brian Blessed, Diana Dors and Billy Ocean.

The annual Speech Day, at which boys are awarded various prizes, has been hosted by many famous speakers, including Rory Bremner, Gary Lineker, Henry Olonga, Sir Tim Rice, Sir Roger Bannister OG, Stephen Fry, Lord Coe ( 2007 ), Professor Malcolm Grant ( President and Provost of UCL ) ( 2008 ), Sir Michael Parkinson ( 2009 ), Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson ( 2010 ) and Hugh Dennis OG ( 2012 )

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

During the game, after 60 minutes and with the score at 1 – 1, Taylor substituted Gary Lineker in his final game for England.

Lineker was a great success at the Camp Nou, scoring 21 goals during his first season, including a hat-trick in a 3 – 2 win over Real Madrid.

During his first spell at Newcastle, Beardsley became a regular in the England side and teamed up with striker Gary Lineker, who described Beardsley as " the best partner I could ever have ".

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.