Gary Linker is like most personalities in the public eye. Some folks instinctively believe the former Spurs ace to be a great guy, and some groan at the very sound of his name. In truth, we live in such strange times, it’s difficult to think of any public figures that are still universally respected. Everyone has someone out there that want’s them de-platformed, sacked or worse. Welcome to the Internet, a medium that man was never designed to use.
The Match of The Day star has been an outspoken voice for compassion via his social media account, specifically for the sort of refugees that have been arriving in the UK with increasingly regularity of late.
Lineker has been accused of virtue signalling, and presumably this move is either silence his critics, and/or allow him to fulfil his ambitions to help practically.
Personally, I wouldn’t even want a blood relative staying in my house for more than a night, and then only in an authenticated emergency.
Jean-Paul Sartre nailed it, ‘hell is other people’.
One can only wish Gary well taking in a complete stranger.
Sorry Jamie want to run that by me again
Instead of bringing people with skills, we should get rid of spastics like you with no skills. Or even an exchange program! Genius I am
If you don’t like it, go back to where you came from!
People who do nothing then moan about people who do something make me sick.
They are not refugees , they are coming for a better life, we cant take the whole world Far too overcrowded.
Shame on you for bringing the word woke into a Spurs discussion
I dont even know what it means but I did hear Fat Piers Morgan use it a couple of times on tv. If that fat Goon chunt uses it I dont like it.
Stick to Spurs if you want politics go to http://www.swiveleyedloons.org
One of the many main reasons that people voted for brexit… Control those borders… Such a delicate subject though when many are women and children and running from tyranny…. It’s not nice to be enslaved, tortured, raped, murdered.. A solution has to be decided for these poor people….. At least Gary has something to say.. Which attracts attention… Which is what this situation needs…. I love Gary… I love Banksy too.. ✌
Well said. All these left wing lovies love to say do as I do but how many put their hand in their pockets and support it with cash. No they much rather tell us poor sods we need to do more while they live the high life. Just what Britain’s ever increasing population needs more people with little or no skills who are according to the lefties more likely to need help with covid and god knows what else. Why don’t every millionaire give half their fortune to improve things in other poor countries where these people come from. Nothing against people coming here with skills that the country needs as long as its all legal and they are veted and checked. Linker is just a rich left wing who cares nothing about poor people or immigrants and this is just another left wing stunt. How much are these immigrants costing the over stretched country housing them.
No he can’t.
But he played in a Holston top. Licence fee is fckree license fee is fkree la la la la la la la la🌚
I don’t disagree with what you have to say. When I was a kid I looked up to Lineker, playing for Spurs and England. But my memories of his goals for Spurs and England, particularly his crucial goals during the 1990 World Cup, are somewhat tainted now I know he’s an horrible, self righteous little runt.
There is this…https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4205880/Gary-Lineker-saves-fortune-avoiding-tax-schemes.html
St Gary isn’t keen on paying his share and thinks that refugees should be supported by the taxes the little people pay.
Actually it matters considerably as to why he is doing it. If you really think that Lineker is just ‘charitably’ opening his doors to any old ‘economic migrant’ who has somehow wended his way to these shores, aided and abetted by various left wing NGO’s, then you are deluded.
This is a carefully vetted leftist publicity stunt, designed to promote and normalise the idea of unlimited migration, under the fraudulent guise of refugee aid. The hidden purpose of which is to effect a miscegenation of the races, the erosion of national and cultural identity and the ultimate dissolution of the nation state, towards the end goal of a one world government.
This is a path the UK and Western Europe have been going down for several decades and is the whole genus of the ‘European Project’. There is nothing accidental nor benign about the motive. It is cultural Marxism in action, amidst a headlong flight towards the subversion and ultimate destruction of Western civilisation.
Yep. We saw them out marching straight after the last two general election results, questioning our electoral system. They only questioned it because it didn’t produce the result they wanted. They are proper little fascists and were are seeing shades of Russia 1917.
Eh? Hurts why? You could make a much longer list of fauna & flora which have been discovered, or become extinct, since we last won the league,. Or discovered Planets, or stars, or nebulae. Or buildings built. ??
Chill out Eddie, it’s only footy.
Leftists/cultural Marxists only think you should be tolerant of their views,
they never reciprocate in kind. In the same way that they only advocate
‘democracy’ so long as it endorses their prevailing view of the
political ‘status quo’. When real democracy, as in ‘Brexit’, contradicts
their self-styled, ‘progressive’ orthodoxy, the ‘democratic’ mask slips very quickly to expose the intractable totalitarian mindset beneath.
Leftists/cultural Marxists only think you should be tolerant of their views,
they never reciprocate in kind. In the same way that they only advocate
‘democracy’ so long as it endorses their prevailing view of the
political ‘status quo’. When real democracy, as in ‘Brexit’, contradicts
their self-styled, ‘progressive’ orthodoxy, the ‘democratic’ mask slips very quickly to expose the intractable totalitarian mindset beneath.
Some did exist. They just gained independence on those dates.
Doesn’t really matter why he’s doing it or what anyone thinks, it’s a positive thing to do. My sister in Switzerland helped out a few refugees a year or two ago, gave them a room while helping them with some legal issues and sorting accommodation. It takes a certain type of person to accept some disruption for someone else’s benefit, just as it takes a certain type of person to find a reason to slag someone off for helping others I suppose. Who cares why, good on him.
Somewhat off-piste,this was sent to me by a gooner mate who in turn received it from a big Spurs fan.Read right to the end,a sobering thought.
> June 19, 1961 – Kuwait
> January 1, 1962 – Samoa
> July 1, 1962 – Burundi
> July 1, 1962 – Rwanda
> July 5, 1962 – Algeria
> August 6, 1962 – Jamaica
> August 31, 1962 – Trinidad and Tobago
> October 9, 1962 – Uganda
> December 12, 1963 – Kenya
> April 26, 1964 – Tanzania
> July 6, 1964 – Malawi
> Sept.21, 1964 – Malta
> October 24, 1964 – Zambia
> February 18, 1965 – Gambia, The
> July 26, 1965 – Maldives
> August 9, 1965 – Singapore
> May 26, 1966 – Guyana
> September 30, 1966 – Botswana
> October 4, 1966 – Lesotho
> November 30, 1966 – Barbados
> January 31, 1968 – Nauru
> March 12, 1968 – Mauritius
> Sept. 6, 1968 – Swaziland
> October 12, 1968 – Equatorial
> June 4, 1970 – Tonga
> October 10, 1970 – Fiji
> March 26, 1971 – Bangladesh
> August 15, 1971 – Bahrain
> Sept. 3, 1971 – Qatar
> November 2, 1971 – United Arab Emirates
> July 10, 1973 – Bahamas
> Sept. 24, 1973 – Guinea-Bissau
> February 7, 1974 – Grenada
> June 25, 1975 – Mozambique
> July 5, 1975 – Cape Verde
> July 6, 1975 – Comoros
> July 12, 1975 – Sao Tome and Principe
> Sept. 16, 1975 – Papua New Guinea
> November 11, 1975 – Angola
> November 25, 1975 – Suriname
> June 29, 1976 – Seychelles
> June 27, 1977 – Djibouti
> July 7, 1978 – Solomon Islands
> October 1, 1978 – Tuvalu
> November 3, 1978 – Dominica
> February 22, 1979 – Saint Lucia
> July 12, 1979 – Kiribati
> October 27, 1979 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
> April 18, 1980 – Zimbabwe
> July 30, 1980 – Vanuatu
> January 11, 1981 – Antigua and Barbuda
> Sept.21, 1981 – Belize
> Sept. 19, 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis
> January 1, 1984 – Brunei
> October 21, 1986 – Marshall Islands
> November 3, 1986 – Micronesia, Federated States of
> March 11, 1990 – Lithuania
> March 21, 1990 – Namibia
> May 22, 1990 – Yemen
> April 9, 1991 – Georgia
> June 25, 1991 – Croatia
> June 25, 1991 – Slovenia
> August 21, 1991 – Kyrgyzstan
> August 24, 1991 – Russia
> August 25, 1991 – Belarus
> August 27, 1991 – Moldova
> August 30, 1991 – Azerbaijan
> Sept. 1, 1991 – Uzbekistan
> Sept. 6, 1991 – Latvia
> Sept. 8, 1991 – Macedonia
> Sept. 9, 1991 – Tajikistan
> Sept. 21, 1991 – Armenia
> October 27, 1991 – Turkmenistan
> November 24, 1991 – Ukraine
> December 16, 1991 – Kazakhstan
> March 3, 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina
> January 1, 1993 – Czech Republic
> January 1, 1993 – Slovakia
> May 24, 1993 – Eritrea
> October 1, 1994 – Palau
> May 20, 2002 – East Timor
> June 3, 2006 – Montenegro
> June 5, 2006 – Serbia
> February 17, 2008 – Kosovo
> July 9, 2011 – South Sudan
>
> Just a short list of countries that didn’t exist when Spurs last won the league.
Fcuk that hurts.
A glorified, ‘woke’/leftist, publicity stunt … If Lineker is that concerned about the welfare of ‘economic migrants’ then I am sure there are plenty of charitable options for him to donate large portions of his grossly inflated BBC salary, garnered at the taxpayer’s expense, towards their well being in their countries of origin.
A complete publicity stunt. When the NGO visits his house they will say its unsuitable for whatever reason. Remember all those other celebs who said they would do it and didn’t? Lilly Allen for one? Also Lineker said he would put someone up in 2015 and never did.
What a nasty world we live in.
But Im alright, Jack.
Isn’t he leaving MOTD? To be replaced by Jenas? I prefer Jenas, but he is a bit pessimistic about Spurs too often.
Seems like a publicity stunt to me. Being woke and possessing such views is one thing, but attacking others who don’t agree with you is quite another. A prime example is his Twitter attack on Peter Shilton (and Waddle?) regarding the EU referendum and was out of order. But the leftists/wokeists tend to be a bit intolerant.
A good example, but he can’t win with some.
Linker is left wing typical bbc rubbish. Total waste of time can’t stand him. Will say anything for money. My 80yr old father is having to pay his wage through the licence fee. All round good guy ask his wife. Sack him and the licence fee
If she’s a “minger” he’ll be needing those stiffeners of his🌚 good on ya Gary.