{"id":143443,"date":"2023-11-17T12:41:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T12:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/?p=143443"},"modified":"2023-11-17T12:41:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T12:41:18","slug":"jermaine-jenas-reveals-hed-fight-gary-lineker-for-match-of-the-day-host-job-but-names-pundit-hed-avoid-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/sport\/jermaine-jenas-reveals-hed-fight-gary-lineker-for-match-of-the-day-host-job-but-names-pundit-hed-avoid-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Jermaine Jenas reveals he\u2019d FIGHT Gary Lineker for Match of the Day host job\u2026 but names pundit he\u2019d avoid | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

JERMAINE JENAS has jokingly said he would fight Gary Lineker to become Match of the Day host – but he revealed the one man he would not.<\/p>\n

England legend Lineker, 60, landed the role after an iconic playing career for the likes of Leicester City, Everton, Barcelona and Tottenham.<\/p>\n


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He took over from Des Lynham presenting the hit BBC football highlights show in 1999 and has remained in the hot-seat ever since.<\/p>\n

Jenas, who played for Spurs, Newcastle and QPR as well as for the Three Lions 21 times, has followed Lineker into the television world since hanging up his boots.<\/p>\n

He is co-host of BBC\u2019s The One Show and the 40-year-old has also appeared several times on Match of the Day as a pundit.<\/p>\n

He has recently stated that he would love to take over from Lineker, and that led to an amusing moment last Saturday during his latest appearance on the show.<\/p>\n

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Lineker asked him live on air: \u201cYou want this job?\u201d<\/p>\n

Jenas replied: \u201cNo, no, I'm alright, thanks, for now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lineker, grinning along with the rest of Jenas\u2019 co-pundits, then said: \u201cLater.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jenas, who also works for TNT Sports, then appeared on talkSPORT Drive this week where the show\u2019s presenter Andy Goldstein jokingly asked Jenas if he would fight Lineker for the job.<\/p>\n

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The 2008 League Cup winner joked: \u201cGary? Yeah I'd fight him.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked whether he would win, Jenas remarked: \u201cI'd like to think so!\u201d<\/p>\n

But when fellow MOTD pundit Alan Shearer, whom he played with at Newcastle, was put forward as a potential opponent, Jenas said: \u201cYeah I mean, I don't get where you're going with this line of questioning to be honest with you!<\/p>\n

\u201cAl was a strange one, I feel like Al has shrunk over the years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first turned up to Newcastle, we used to get changed at St. James' Park and then catch a coach to training.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn't have a training ground, so when they signed me, I think somebody said, 'Take him to the training ground.'<\/p>\n

\u201cBobby Robson was like, 'No don't take him to the training ground, take him down the Quayside,' which is another story. But eventually, once I've signed, I turn up at St. James' Park, got changed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI remember looking at Al getting changed and I thought, 'I've got to wear shin pads for training, I didn't realise.' We didn't, his legs were that big, his calves and his ankles were just huge.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople like him and [Wayne] Rooney, they're just built that way. But yeah, that Shearer, I'm not fighting him.\u201d<\/p>\n

It comes after we reported this week how Lineker is set for a new \u00a31.35million-a-year contract extension with the BBC.<\/p>\n

His contract is set to expire at the end of next season – at the same time as the BBC's current Premier League highlights rights package.<\/p>\n

With the Corporation set to seal a four-year extension to show Prem action on Saturday nights, they are keen to keep Lineker on as presenter.<\/p>\n

That is despite him being controversially suspended for a week by the BBC for his social media activity earlier this year.<\/p>\n


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