They were once rivals on the pitch, and in recent years found themselves clashing over opinions.
But Graeme Souness and Gary Lineker were forced to put their differences aside while working together on ITV’s new celebrity gameshow The Box, three years after he called out the Match Of The Day host for refusing to apologise for tweets criticising the Government’s migrant bill.
Lineker made headlines in March 2023 after being suspended by the BBC for refusing to apologise over criticism of the Government’s bill on illegal migrants. After days of dramatic fallout, which saw his colleagues Ian Wright and Alan Shearer show
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