The next Match of the Day host is OBVIOUS and possibly the only person who could be as good as Gary Lineker
As a woman, “Sally”, searches for a present for her kid sister, she steps through the kind of magic wardrobe that puts you on the fast track to Narnia, transporting her back to her own past at the end of the last century.And if BBC bosses sign up Alan Shearer today, he should be able to present Match Of The Day for the next 50 years.

ROD STEWART says he might have to sell his collection of sports cars because of the potholes on the roads.Gary Lineker became a great TV presenter.The drummer from Metallica?But Narinder Kaur – apparently a “star” of Good Morning Britain – mindlessly tweeted, “Genuine question – why has Kate aged so much? Is she a smoker? It’s the only explanation.”
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And does not have a racist bone in her body.But you had to concede that the man knew what he was talking about. The cinematic references are unabashed.But, in footballing terms, Gary and Alan are from different generations.
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The audience vividly remembered Gary when he was banging them in for our national side. You did not have to like him.And it’s great news that she will host her fourth Christmas carol concert at Westminster Abbey.

But once Gal mastered the art of reading words on a screen while a producer talked in his ear mic, he relaxed to become a fitting replacement to the great Des Lynam.Which brings me back to Alan Shearer. Does the BBC consider Shearer too old for the role? And of course Top Of The Pops always had a different grinning Radio One DJ every week.It is conclusive proof that OUR POLICE HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT THEY ARE FOR.It is good to have Kate back after her chemotherapy treatment, and looking so radiant.But polls and PMQs will not be enough to put the Tories back into power.



Forget all those vapid young influencers on social media. Senior citizens are driving our culture.And to all the social media “stars” we have never heard of – if you have nothing nice to say about this national treasure, then just shut your worthless cakeholes.They told Allison they were not at liberty to say. Last week the best thing on TV was Asia, narrated by David Attenborough — 98 years old. It worked for me. Merry chin-wobble!Are you a complete brain-dead cretin? It’s the only explanation.Allison has been both a colleague – we did the BBC’s Late Review together for years – and a friend.The big film was Gladiator II, directed by Ridley Scott — 86 years young.

As we all know, Kate has just completed a course of chemotherapy for an unspecified cancer.Social media platforms should abide by the same laws newspapers do. And the cops should be chasing real criminals.MOTD viewers demand the authority that only an ex-England striker can bring to the role.Is there one parent on the planet who will object?High streets are dying, driven out of business by an epidemic of shoplifting.
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WHAT baffles me about the quest to replace Gary Lineker on Match Of The Day is that his obvious replacement never even gets mentioned.Ask him to reconsider. Al would be brilliant — possibly the only person alive who could be as good as Gary Lineker.

And on Thursday night I witnessed an incredible concert at the Royal Albert Hall by Bob Dylan, 83.Because your comments are beyond disrespectful.We think of Gary in World Cup Italia 90, fretting about Gazza’s tears.That will not work with MOTD after Gary has gone because, over the last 25 years, Lineker has created the template for the show. It might be an idea to go even further. Kemi’s role is not making Keir look clunky at the despatch box.It has been done before — the most obvious example being post-Angus Deayton Have I Got News For You.
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Lineker is 63. Alan Shearer is only 54. They played together just three times, only once for 90 minutes.IN her first week as the new Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch saw her party overtake Labour in the polls. The door to a magical world is lifted from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, and the past melting before Sally’s eyes is a direct lift from Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. Is this what they call a First World problem?Because Shearer is a bald, old, white bloke? Doesn’t Shearer want it?Reading an autocue is a skill that can be mastered. So genuine question – how stupid are you, Kaur?And clueless cops are knocking on Allison’s door because someone complained about her Twitter feed?GLIDING down the red carpet for the premiere of Gladiator II, Connie Nielsen embodies the kind of elegant, sophisticated grace that the film industry has not seen since Grace Kelly was single.I HAVE known journalist Allison Pearson for 30 years. What matters is – unite the Right. Bring those Reform defectors home to the Tories.For all his undoubted charm, humour and willingness to take off his trousers when Leicester won the Premier League, this unassailable authority was Gary Lineker’s greatest claim to the presenter’s chair on MOTD.But the film that the ad really references is It’s A Wonderful Life – the hero running through those Christmas winter streets, running towards all the things that truly matter, running for home.He was, understandably, a lot more wooden and a lot less relaxed at the start.

In Essex, where the cops were harassing my friend, the police solve one in ten sexual assaults.If Shearer can score 30 goals in 63 appearances for England (Lineker scored 48 goals in 80 appearances for the Three Lions) then how hard can it be to make the transition from MOTD guest to MOTD presenter?
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Watching David Lammy, who famously tweeted that Trump is a “neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”, grovelling to the Americans now, it makes me believe there should be a social media ban for the over-16s too.Knowing what Shearer knows about our national game takes a lifetime.

In England and Wales, most home burglaries – 96.5 per cent – never result in anyone being charged.YOU know that Christmas is on the way when your chin starts wobbling at TV commercials.Why does nobody ever suggest Alan Shearer should be on the shortlist?THE Princess of Wales lifted the spirits of the nation with her appearance at the Cenotaph last Sunday.It is clear that Kemi is going to take Keir Starmer apart at every Prime Minister’s Questions. They yak endlessly about Mark Chapman, Gabby Logan, Alex Scott, Jake Humphrey and Gary Neville.I am always surprised to recall that Connie went out with the drummer from Metallica – fellow Dane, Lars Ulrich – for eight years.
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But on Remembrance Sunday, as Allison was getting ready to remember the fallen, two Essex policemen knocked on her door to investigate a “hate crime” on Twitter.The John Lewis ad is a heart-tugging masterpiece, a perfect example of why Christmas commercials matter.
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If Kemi can’t unite the Right, then a second term is guaranteed for these shagged-out socialists.IN a momentous step, Australia’s government proposes a total social media ban for children under the age of 16.