Giles: Lineker in wrong job if he wants friends in football

John Giles was astonished by remarks from Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker regarding the punditry style of RTÉ’s soccer analysts.

On a visit to Dublin last month Lineker said Giles and Eamon Dunphy couldn’t get away with the type of punditry they do on RTÉ if they were working in England.

The former England striker said soccer pundits for the BBC and Sky could not make the type of forthright, critical comments Giles and Dunphy are famed for as managers and players would see it and would be unwilling to talk to them in the future.