Lineker’s number two admission

IT MAY have been the close marking of Mick McCarthy or it may have been Ireland’s ‘put ’em under pressure’ tactics, but England hero Gary Lineker has finally come clean.

Never caught short for pace, England’s finest striker has made the amazing admission that, unable to reach a toilet, he “relaxed himself” during the World Cup clash with Ireland in 1990.

Yes, England’s number 10 did a number two.

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