Gary Lineker has hit back at critics who suggested he was one of the reasons Gareth Southgate stood down as England manager.
Speaking after Southgate’s exit, Lineker said: “We [pundits] were critical at times, because you can’t say when a team is not playing very well, that they played well.
“If they played awfully, you say they played awfully, and they did in the early part of the tournament. There’s no question about that. But then to try and make it that that’s the reason, that criticism is the reason he’s gone. It’s not. It’s not that at all.”
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