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Lineker: BBC bosses wanted me off Match of the Day
The Guardian
|April 23, 2025
Gary Lineker has suggested the BBC wanted him to leave Match of the Day as his departure from the show after more than a quarter of the century at its helm approaches next month.
In an interview with Amol Rajan on BBC Two last night, Lineker discussed his departure from the football highlights programme, which was announced late last year.
Gabby Logan, Kelly Cates and Mark Chapman will host Match of the Day from August, while Lineker will host the BBC's coverage of the FA Cup in 2025-26 and the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
"It's time," he told Rajan. "I've done it for a long time. It's been brilliant."
Pressed on why he would want to leave, Lineker, 64, said: "Well, perhaps they want me to leave... there was a sense of that. I think it was their preference that I didn't do Match of the Day for one more year so they could bring in new people.
"So it's slightly unusual that I would do the FA Cup and World Cup, but to be honest it's a scenario that suits me perfectly."
The former England striker added that the new rights period gave the BBC an opportunity to change the programme he has hosted since 1999.
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