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11: Gary Lineker: Politics, football and the BBC

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

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Gary's Childhood

My dad was sold fruit on Leicester Market. Every day but Sunday and Monday he would get up at 3.4 in the morning, go and buy all the fruit from the wholesaler,. take it to the market store, set it all up... And I think that made me want to be a footballer because it was too much like you all do that. Did you know that me and Alice went to the same school? No, he was just saying and did you remember him at school? Did you know? No, no. What was he not a legend for his football party at the stage? I hadn't played for Maradol by then. The only reason the might have noticed

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