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26th Apr 2016

Gary Lineker puts the Daily Mail to rights over “misleading headline”

"The inference is wrong and upsetting"

Carl Kinsella

Gary Lineker is probably feeling a bit tense…

Considering he made a promise to host the first Match Of The Day next season wearing nothing but his underwear if Leicester won the league, he’s probably waking up every day with a slight twinge of fear.

But we can’t blame him for taking issue with this headline in the ‘Daily Mail’, which he described as “outrageously misleading”.

Lineker described the implication of the headline, which read ‘Lineker Cries Foul Over Cost Of Divorce’ – referring to his recent split from Danielle Bux – as “wrong and upsetting” in a succession of tweets.

Here’s what the pundit had to say:

Fight your corner, Gary.

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Gary Lineker