Will Gary Lineker really present Match of the Day in his pants?

The presenter said he would appear on Match of the Day in his undies if Leicester won the Premiership. And they did …

The press exists to hold the powerful to account; to make sure they keep their word, and to demand answers when promises aren’t kept. So, with that in mind, full marks should be awarded to the Leicester Mercury for printing the headline ‘When will Gary Lineker present Match of the Day in just his underpants?’

Because, sure, Lineker might have done his best to forget the events of December 14th when, in a fit of regrettable bravado, he tweeted:


Gary Lineker Verified account
‏@GaryLineker

YES! If Leicester win the @premierleague I'll do the first MOTD of next season in just my undies.

But the Leicester Mercury has not forgotten. And nor has the internet.
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With Match of the Day about to return to our screens, Lineker’s pants have become a subject of outright fascination online, with people expressing fear and disgust and possible lust about the prospect of having to look at a pair of sweaty knickers in blistering HD. Even Walkers Crisps are in on the act now because, to paraphrase a popular philosophical thought experiment, if a man wears his pants on the telly and a subsidiary of PepsiCo doesn’t use it as a tool to leverage an existing market base, will anyone actually see it?

Nobody seems to know for sure whether or not Lineker is going to present Match of the Day in his pants. To be fair, it’s a real career-shaping quandary for him. If he goes through with it, he risks cheapening a television institution that has won respect around the world for half a century, all for the sake of a laddy bet. But if he backs out, 15 people on Twitter will call him a knob. Whichever path Lineker decides to take, he loses.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2016/aug/11/gary-lineker-pants-match-of-the-day


Oh I do hope so lol and I think he has the balls (sic) and the sense of humour to do it. He's probably got the tan as well.

He will probably enjoy it. A couple of years ago in Tenerife he strutted up and down the beach like an extra from Baywatch....he looked very nice though.