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11: Gary Lineker: Politics, football and the BBC

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

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The Importance of Being Calm

I was like my mother. My dad had a real temper and my brother's got a real temper, but my mum was very calm all the time. I lost both of them about four or five years ago. They actually got divorced when I was about 2021,. But I could see it coming. By the time you were in your early 20s, you were seriously famous, right? Yeah. And presumably from when do people start recognizing you in the streets? Well, presumably in Leicester City, they were recognizing you. Around the mid 20s, a little bit in Leicester. Then he went to Everton, started scoring a lot of goals. He started to get well known in England and

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