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posted on 21/6/22

I see twitter going mad about this. Again shows so much that’s wrong with the world by the responses. I think this was just again a question and answer taken out of context. People thought he was black, or not English, due to having Tanned skin, and used racist slurs against him…all this is if the story is to be believed anyway. But that could be quite harmful to a kid no?

I don’t know maybe I’m reading it wrong but there’s comments online saying “Gary lineker is black now?!” Etc. I think he’s just saying he had slurs heckled at him. I’m not sure if that’s a reason to beat up the man?

Mags in could be reading it wrong

posted on 21/6/22

Again I could be reading it wrong *

posted on 21/6/22

I thought this would be Gary Neville when I started reading the OP.

posted on 21/6/22

comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 9 minutes ago
I thought this would be Gary Neville when I started reading the OP.
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Think of it as a test to see how famous a Gary, Lineker is.

For me he’s the 5th most well known Gary, apparently.

posted on 21/6/22

comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 9 minutes ago
I thought this would be Gary Neville when I started reading the OP.
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Think of it as a test to see how famous a Gary, Lineker is.

For me he’s the 5th most well known Gary, apparently.
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I’ve got
Gary Neville
Gary Bailey
Gary Numan
Gary Oldman
Gary Glitter

All ahead of him

posted on 21/6/22

I want to know where you rank Barlow in all of this?!

posted on 21/6/22

He doesn’t even register

posted on 22/6/22

Michael!!!!

posted on 22/6/22

Yeah that's a low bar

posted on 22/6/22

Orange lives matter Burnley

posted on 22/6/22

Don’t forget, this abuse would have been 50 years ago, when attitudes were different and anyone not white would have been considered foreign.

posted on 22/6/22

comment by Bobby Dazzler (U1449)
posted 1 hour, 37 minutes ago
comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 9 minutes ago
I thought this would be Gary Neville when I started reading the OP.
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Think of it as a test to see how famous a Gary, Lineker is.

For me he’s the 5th most well known Gary, apparently.
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I’ve got
Gary Neville
Gary Bailey
Gary Numan
Gary Oldman
Gary Glitter

All ahead of him
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Gary Sobers ahead of all that lot.

posted on 22/6/22

Last time I checked Sancho, Rashford etc are “English"
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Last time I checked they wouldn't have even been born when Lineker was at school. Different times, there weren't many "black English" people about in the 60s, nor in professional football in England in the 70s.

posted on 22/6/22

OP scouring the Web for something to be offended by. Unbelievable. Two friends of mine had dark skin growing up, despite being Caucasian and got racially abused all the time, one being called a racial slur for somebody from Pakistan. He even got a nick name which has stuck with him to this day, which is racially abusive. People look at me strangely when I call him by his proper name.

posted on 22/6/22

always thought Lineker must have some non anglo blood in him due to his "olive" skin tone

extremely few pure Anglos have anything other than alabaster white skin

Perhaps a relic of the Neolithic Farmers or western Hunter Gatherers that constitute a small part of English Ancestry ?

posted on 22/6/22

comment by Erik Don Hag (U22703)
posted 5 hours, 13 minutes ago
Don’t forget, this abuse would have been 50 years ago, when attitudes were different and anyone not white would have been considered foreign.
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he is white....he just has a more olive skin tone

posted on 22/6/22

comment by There'sOnlyOneRed's (U1721)
posted 1 hour, 28 minutes ago
OP scouring the Web for something to be offended by. Unbelievable.
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Yep, saw this trending on Twitter… mainly via the sun, the Mail etc

posted on 22/6/22

It is Anglo-Saxon associated with a flax grower so probably from the same root as "linen".

posted on 22/6/22

Na not really

Just thought it was funny that even in todays world he would say I couldn’t believe I was being racially abused because I’m English. Especially off the back of what happened to the lads at the last England tournament

posted on 22/6/22

comment by Bobby Dazzler (U1449)
posted 7 hours, 26 minutes ago
comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 9 minutes ago
I thought this would be Gary Neville when I started reading the OP.
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Think of it as a test to see how famous a Gary, Lineker is.

For me he’s the 5th most well known Gary, apparently.
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I’ve got
Gary Neville
Gary Bailey
Gary Numan
Gary Oldman
Gary Glitter

All ahead of him
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I'd put Gary Busey ahead of that lot.

posted on 22/6/22

comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
comment by Erik Don Hag (U22703)
posted 5 hours, 13 minutes ago
Don’t forget, this abuse would have been 50 years ago, when attitudes were different and anyone not white would have been considered foreign.
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he is white....he just has a more olive skin tone
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Yes. I’m talking about his view from 50 years ago that English = White.

posted on 22/6/22

comment by פlǝuƃɥᴉs (U19365)
posted 23 minutes ago
comment by Bobby Dazzler (U1449)
posted 7 hours, 26 minutes ago
comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 9 minutes ago
I thought this would be Gary Neville when I started reading the OP.
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Think of it as a test to see how famous a Gary, Lineker is.

For me he’s the 5th most well known Gary, apparently.
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I’ve got
Gary Neville
Gary Bailey
Gary Numan
Gary Oldman
Gary Glitter

All ahead of him
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I'd put Gary Busey ahead of that lot.

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For point Break and Under Seige alone

posted on 22/6/22

I see twitter going mad about this. Again shows so much that’s wrong with the world by the responses.

_—-

A sizeable part of what’s wrong with the world is Twitter.

posted on 22/6/22

comment by Ole dirty Baztard - penited and penandes (U19119)
posted 8 minutes ago
I see twitter going mad about this. Again shows so much that’s wrong with the world by the responses.

_—-

A sizeable part of what’s wrong with the world is Twitter.
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^^^^^

posted on 22/6/22

He’s worded it badly but I get what he was trying to say. But probably best if he had just not said anything at all but he seems to love the sound of his own voice. Last week he compared going to Qatar to present MOTD for the WC to journalists who report the war in the Ukraine.

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