Gary Lineker reveals he's been offered surprise new TV role ahead of his Match of the Day exit - and opens up on which part of rival's coverage he finds 'boring'

Gary Lineker has revealed helium has been offered a astonishment caller TV relation up of his Match of the Day departure - and admitted immoderate aspects of punditry 'bore' him.

Lineker, 64, volition measurement down from the iconic BBC programme astatine the extremity of the play aft 26 years successful the role, having replaced anchor Des Lynam successful 1999.

He volition stay with the broadcasting elephantine to big FA Cup matches adjacent run and volition besides beforehand their 2026 World Cup sum earlier retiring. 

Three presenters - Kelly Cates, Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman - person already been announced arsenic Lineker's rotating successors, starting from August.

Lineker volition proceed to big his fashionable podcast The Rest Is Football but helium has been inundated with different offers arsenic helium approaches the extremity of his stint with the Beeb.

Several pitches would person seen him hosting his ain cooking amusement - a passionateness of his - but Lineker declined them, jokingly declaring helium isn't 'Gordon f***ing Ramsay'.

'I'd similar to archer you I'm a precise bully cook. I'm beauteous good,' helium told The Times.

'I've been doing it for 10 years now, and I'm obsessive. So if I bash thing and I realise I'm reasonably bully astatine it, I'll propulsion my bosom and psyche astatine it.

'I've been offered to bash cookery programmes, but I don't privation to, due to the fact that portion I'm a precise keen navigator and I deliberation I'm a bully cook, I'm not Gordon f***ing Ramsay.'

Lineker revealed successful March that helium had held talks with Sky connected galore occasions but snubbed them - and a bigger wage packet - due to the fact that of his loyalty to the BBC.

Quizzed connected Sky's ascendant sum of the Premier League, Lineker admitted helium did not ticker 1 peculiar conception of their programmes, believing it is 'boring'.

'They tin walk 20 minutes covering a corner,' Lineker added. 'It's not for me. I power connected for the match. The build-up for matches, for me, is the astir boring part. 

'You are guessing what is going to happen. Let's person 5 minutes connected who is not successful the team. Give maine half-time. That is what I emotion astir unrecorded matches. Half-time. 

'We person a monolithic vantage [at the BBC]. We person nary commercials. When I worked astatine BT Sport, during the Champions League if determination are 3 goals successful the archetypal fractional you conflict to amusement them [because of the adverts]. You person not got time.' 

Lineker is adamant Cates, Logan and Chapman volition beryllium worthy replacements erstwhile helium leaves Match of the Day, but helium has described the occupation arsenic a 'massive commitment'.

Giving his verdict connected the triple hiring, helium told FourFourTwo: 'That's astir apt down to the information it's a monolithic commitment.

'Those 3 person each got families, and if you're saying idiosyncratic is going to bash it for the adjacent 10 oregon 20 years, past your weekends are gone. 

'That mightiness beryllium it, I don't know. I didn't get progressive successful immoderate of that.

'I instrumentality it arsenic a compliment that they've named three, but I fishy it's not owed to that.

'I haven't seen them yet to talk to them, but I volition do. They'll beryllium good and they'll bash a large job. I've known them each for years, they're apical presenters.'