It would be unfair to ask if Gary Lineker, who Netflix is reportedly lining up to front their 2027 Women’s World Cup coverage, has ever actually watched any women’s football. There is plenty of evidence that he has. Take the Lionesses’ historic triumph at the Euros in 2022, when he responded to Chloe Kelly’s winning goal by tweeting a hilarious pun about her bra .

This is the kind of “top banter” we are used to hearing on Lineker’s podcast, The Rest is Football . Now the women’s game is set to be enlightened with it, too.

When the casual sexism of his tweet – “Kelly is England’s heroine, bra none” – was pointed out to Lineker, he deleted it. He believed that anyone who was offended hadn’t watched the game, where Kelly had celebrated by swirling her shirt around her head.

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