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11: Gary Lineker: Politics, football and the BBC

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

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The Pros and Cons of Football Clubs

I was one of the top players in the world when I was at Barcelona and a game when I rejoined Tottenham. You end up with, it's almost like an auction. How do you feel about the way that football clubs are now part of this kind of bigger geo-strategic geopolitical stuff? It worries me a little bit. Particularly, I have a real problem with state-owned football clubs,. But I'm afraid that's the, that's the trainers left the station. And we're stuck with it. So in some ways it's given us the biggest, most professional, most exciting league in the world because of, we now attract in the big players from all over the

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