Gary Lineker called on the BBC not to make new radical changes when he left a match of the day at the end of the season in a new interview – who also saw the former England international aiming for a strong excavation to the director of the sports broadcaster.
The long -standing presenter of the show of emblematic highlights should leave after 26 years in the role, but will remain in the stables of the broadcaster, to cope with their coverage of the 2026 World Cup before retirement.
In its place, the BBC chose not to replace it with a single figure, when it replaced the former host of the Lynam, but – as indicated exclusively by Sport Mail – by a trio of co -hosts.
Gabby Logan, Mark Chapman and Kelly Cates will invent the team’s day coverage match in a break in tradition.
But before the change of guard, Lineker aimed at the “new diet” of the diffuser and warned the BBC hierarchy of the danger of making too many changes.
The 64-year-old man offered his reflections on the director of BBC sport, Alex Kay-Jelski, who took the bar last year, arguing that since his appointment, there has been a dramatic change at the top.
Gary Lineker offered a warning to his BBC bosses on the new format of the day match
Lineker distinguished the new director of the BBC of Sport Alex Kay-Jelski for having “without television experience”
Lineker will be replaced by a presentation team at Kelly Cates, Mark Chapman and Gabby Logan
“I think that (a regime change) has (arrived), and that’s what I was referring to (in a previous interview),” Lineker at Telegraph Sport told.
“He has his reasons, he wants to change the match of the day a little. In the end, I do not think they will do it, because I do not see how you distance a show from the protruding facts to be on the protruding facts.
“I think he wants more journalists – he came from this context. He has no television experience.
When he asked if he would like to see the program to maintain the same easy relationships he has with his long-term co-owners such as Alan Shearer and Micah Richards, Lineker added that the chain would be `crazy ” to play with a winning formula.
“I suspect, for all the thoughts of change, that the spectacle will remain roughly as is. This is my instinct, continued Lineker.
“I think they would be crazy, absolutely crazy, to play with Match of the Day. It took years and years to get the right balance.
“I would be nervous if they played it too much. It is this old adage, “if it is not broken, do not repair it”. ‘
Lineker has already supported the BBC’s decision to replace it with the Cates team, Logan and Chapman, but stressed that work is a “massive commitment”.
“These three all have families, and if you say that someone will do it for the next ten or 20 years, your weekends have disappeared,” said Lineker last month.
Lineker has maintained a particular style in the emblematic role he has occupied for 26 years
“Maybe that’s it, I don’t know. I was not involved in any of this.
“I consider him a compliment they have named three, but I suspect that it is not because of it.
“I haven’t seen them yet to talk to them, but I will do it. They will go well and they will do a great job. I have known them all for years, these are the best presenters.
While he counts until the end of the season and his last episode for Match of the Day, Lineker last weekend ended up in hot water for sharing a pro-Palestine clip with an emoji of a rat-an anti-Jewish insult.
This provoked the condemnation of Jewish groups and calls for his ax by the broadcaster.
Lineker, 64, then deleted the images of his “stories” coil on the social media site and apologized, insisting that he “knowingly shared anything anti -Semitic.
