Gary Lineker vs Jose Mourinho feud noticed them go from MOTD texting to brutal snub
Gary Lineker has revealed Jose Mourinho has taken a specific dislike to him – and he does not even know why.
Lineker, 63, is well-known within the Premier League group, not only for his iconic soccer profession with England, Barcelona and Tottenham however for his work presenting Match of the Day. Mourinho, 60, was an enormous fan of the present, in accordance with Lineker, who additionally claimed the previous Chelsea and Manchester United supervisor used to commonly praise Lineker’s presenting abilities on the finish of reveals.
However, Lineker mentioned issues instantly turned bitter when the now Roma supervisor refused to just accept a reward that was offered by the MOTD host. Despite the evident stress on Mourinho’s half, Lineker doesn’t have a clue why he has discovered himself within the Portuguese boss’ dangerous books.
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Lineker mentioned on The Rest Is Football Podcast: “I remember when he first came, he was this incredible personality, really engaging and I thought he was witty and he was funny. I think the game has beaten him up a little over the years. I did a little documentary with him, he used to text me all the time, he used to text me after Match of the Day, saying ‘you guys understand it, this is great.’ We had been going along like that for two years and then something changed.
“I used to be requested to current him with the Man of the Year award on the GQ Awards that they do yearly. They requested me to current the trophy and I mentioned ‘sure, I’ll do this for Jose, after all’. Then about 4 days earlier than the occasion, they bought in contact and mentioned ‘Jose has bought in contact and he does not need you to current the trophy to him, he desires somebody that is not in soccer’.
“I thought ‘hmmm, that’s a bit odd’ but I thought I’ll go along to the event anyway and I went up to Jose and he kind of blanked me. I went ‘are we ok, are we ok Jose?’ ‘He went “Yeah, yeah, yeah.’ But he wasn’t okay and he is by no means been OK since.”
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At first, Lineker assumed there was some form of misunderstanding between the pair on the awards ceremony. Unfortunately for him, Mourinho’s dislike was seemingly a lot stronger than he anticipated, as he discovered when the fiery Portuguese boss was the supervisor of United.
“I do not know to this day whether it was something I said on Match of the Day, I genuinely have no idea. I interviewed him subsequently and he was very cold,” Lineker added. “I keep in mind doing a Champions League recreation which they did not do very properly in.
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“I went up to the director’s box at Manchester United and I was having a drink with Ed Woodward, he’s a neighbour of mine so I know him really well.
“I’m stood there having a drink and Jose comes up however then he simply wandered off. He despatched a textual content to Ed Woodward, ‘why are you speaking to him?’ To at the present time, I do not know what I did! It is a very long time in the past this occurred however I do not know what occurred.”
