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

Lineker was equally talented at both football and cricket.

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.

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.

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 2003, Lineker was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame.

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 2001, Lineker was approached by game makers Codemasters to front the LMA Manager series on PlayStation.

Lineker was made a freeman of the City of Leicester ( which entitles him to graze his sheep — should he have any — on Town Hall Square ) in 1995 and he is often referred to as " Leicester's favourite son ".

However, when " Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life " was adopted as a football chant in the late 1980s, Idle's then neighbour Gary Lineker suggested Idle re-record and release the popular track.

The team previously had its most successful season in 1995 when it was managed by current Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger, winning the prestigious Emperor's Cup and finishing runners-up in the J. League, and which featured, among others, Dragan Stojković and Gary Lineker on the team, until it was eclipsed on November 20, 2010, when the club won their first ever J.

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.

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.

Gary Lineker was unusually sluggish, missing a series of chances and hitting the cross bar.

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.

Gary Winston Lineker OBE ( born 30 November 1960 ) is an English former footballer, who played as a striker.

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 first attended Caldecote Road School ( Caldecote Juniors ), Braunstone in Leicester ( east of the Meridian Centre ) although he lived outside the borough.

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.

In October 2002, Lineker backed a £ 5 million bid to rescue his former club Leicester City which recently had gone into administration, describing his involvement as charity rather than an ego trip.

Lineker is now honorary vice-president of Leicester City, along with former players Gordon Banks and Peter Shilton.

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.

Both Emile Heskey and Gary Lineker ( Winner of the Golden Boot ) attended the City of Leicester College in Evington, as did former Labour media advisor Alistair Campbell and Dr. Nicholas Shepherd ( Co-founder of the internet ).

The road running through the development is called Lineker Road, after Gary Lineker, one of Leicester City's most famous players.

Then came the arrival of England striker Gary Lineker from Leicester City in the 1985 close season.

The stadium was officially opened by former Leicester striker Gary Lineker on 23 July 2002.

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.

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.

Lineker would pair up with Alan Hansen, fellow MOTD pundit to voice the post match comments on the game, with Barry Davies voicing the commentary.

Venables had brought both Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne to Spurs and was a favourite to replace Bobby Robson as England national football team manager when the job became vacant in 1990, but doubts about his probity led him to be passed over in favour of Graham Taylor.

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 ).

The most popular and regular include David Beckham, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Gary Lineker, Nicky Campbell, Richard Madeley, Tony Blair, Prince Charles, Robert Kilroy-Silk, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Angus Deayton, Terry Wogan and the fictional characters Ross Geller ( from Friends ) and Dot Cotton ( from EastEnders ).

While still playing, he was a regular pundit for ITV, noted for his outspoken comments and Wiltshire-accented mispronunciations ( e. g., Lineker became Line-acre ).

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By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

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In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

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