Mismatch of the day
BBC STUDIOS▲ Gary Lineker’s BBC interview with Amol Rajan was full of interesting anecdotes, and some contentious talking points too Lineker’s critics have got it wrong. It’s valid to talk about more than sport I had a producer once say: ‘Can we not talk about domestic violence today? It’s Friday’ 25 Apr 2025 - The Guardian Max Rushden The most extraordinary revelation to come from Gary Lineker’s interview with Amol Rajan on the BBC is that he’d sometimes come home from school to find Engelbert Humperdinck playing cards with his dad. Surprisingly, almost all the reaction to the conversation has ignored this bombshell – Engelbert apparently not such a big player in the culture war world; best focus on your Middle Easts, your Bravermans, your impartialities, Brian. Of course the job of news outlets is to pick out headlines but it does appear almost no one has watched the whole programme. It’s essentially a nice wide-ranging interview covering the career of one of the be...