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If they went into real depth on this it would be a brilliant hours tv lol

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Sorry if it's mentioned but I couldn't see it at a glance and I wanted to get a message up quick as it's already started. Gary Lineker tracing his heritage around Leicester on BBC 1 atm.

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Did anyone else think when they heard that Lineker's ancestor, a gardener's son, was sent to posh school by a rich benefactor ,I bet he was bumming him?

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Did anyone else think when they heard that Lineker's ancestor, a gardener's son, was sent to posh school by a rich benefactor ,I bet he was bumming him?

No, maybe I'm the odd one out though... :blink:

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Did anyone else think when they heard that Lineker's ancestor, a gardener's son, was sent to posh school by a rich benefactor ,I bet he was bumming him?

one of a few possiblities

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I heard he traced right back and discovered Richard III was a distant relative!

More reason to keep him in Leicester!

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Pinched 6 chickens and when the police came round, 4 were in the pot lol lol

 

Lineker was laughing and it was making me laugh.

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Found it quite amusing when they were talking about a distant relative being a criminal like it was unusual & slightly interesting, when his own brother has done a stretch.

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 He must have poaching in the blood .That's how he scored so many goals

( no doubt the jokes been done but i've not seen it)

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Seems to be a genuinely nice guy who is pretty grounded despite his success. Has great cutting wit and some of his stuff on twitter is very funny, quite happy to take the pee out of himself.

I met him at a corporate conference held at the NEC where he was the keynote speaker. This was a fairly large do with around 3,000 attending from the company I worked for at the time and the standing ovation and greeting he got when being introduced on stage was unreal. He also attended the evening meal held at the NEC and then went to the after party do at the Metropole Hotel. His driver turned up to take him home whilst I was having a chat with him outside the hotel but he said he was having such a good time that he sent the driver away and stopped for another couple of hours. He was happily signing autographs all day. Lovely bloke.

Also recall he met my sister when over in France during the World Cup. She lives in Paris and happened to be in the same restaurant as the BBC presentation team which included Gary. She did speak to him as a Leicester fan and got him to sign a napkin and he apologised for only having a minute or two to talk to her because they were having a working dinner for planning etc. Five minutes after sitting back down at her table my sister was sent a bottle of champagne from Gary and needless to say she was very impressed.

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Cracked me up after finding the jailbird in the family tree the expert said "yes the black sheep in the family are always interesting" and Gary piped up "Yes my brother is very interesting" !!

 

Also the fact that the ancestor was called James Pratt and Gary commented "I've always knew we had some Pratts in the family".

 

....like to be a fly on the wall when Gary and Wayne next speak.

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