Gary Lineker will undoubtedly be connected within football, and yet the presenter’s timeline is now awash with sanctimony in spades from some, accusing the former Tottenham player of ‘recklessness’ and being ‘irresponsible’.
I can genuinely say that I have never known a club, a business, like this one. People mock Liverpool fans, but boy do we give them a run for their money.
Would I want to be stuck in a lift with Gary? Perhaps not. I’m sure the feeling is mutual. However, the ‘don’t you talk badly about my baby’ mindset needs to go. It stinks of a fundamentally weak mentality.
This is a key face of BBC Sport and the depths to which some will stoop is, in my view, frankly embarrassing. Will part two to this hysterical nonsense be a demand that Linker is removed from post, should Tottenham lose against Norwich City, this weekend? I would not be shocked.