Gary Lineker is to step down as the presenter of Match of the Day at the end of the season, it has been reported.
He is believed to have signed an 18-month contract with the broadcaster that will cover the next Fifa World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico, but will step back from the BBC’s football highlights programme at the end of the 2024/25 season. BBC News reported that an announcement would be made on Tuesday.
The former England striker took over in the chair from Des Lynam in 1999, and has been a presence on football fans’ screens on Saturday nights for 25 years.
He is also his nation’s leading World Cup goalscorer, and was the top scorer in the English game’s top flight in three seasons, for three different clubs.
For his work on Match of the Day, he was nominated for a National Television award in 2017.
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