BBC launch reality show to find new football expert just hours after Gary Lineker’s bombshell MOTD exit revealed

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The amusement victor could summation entree to apical footballers

Henry Tomlinson, Freelance Sports Reporter

Published: 13:19, 15 Nov 2024
Updated: 13:19, 15 Nov 2024

THE BBC has launched a caller world amusement to find a caller shot adept pursuing Gary Lineker's announced exit.

The Match of the Day presenter volition beryllium stepping down from the amusement astatine the extremity of the season.

Gary Lineker is stepping down from his relation astatine the BBC

The broadcaster is looking to societal media to find a caller shot expert

Lineker, 63, volition proceed to diagnostic connected the FA Cup shows and astatine the World Cup successful 2026.

However, the Beeb are readying connected bringing caller faces into their endowment pool.

The caller amusement volition effort to pull a younger assemblage to the broadcaster.

It volition beryllium aiming to enlistee a caller football adept who uses the societal media level TikTok.

It volition beryllium broadcast connected iPlayer successful the lead-up to the Women's European Championship adjacent summer.

The victor of the amusement volition seemingly beryllium offered a paid relation producing integer contented for BBC Sport.

Their enactment volition besides look connected TV programmes similar Football Focus, vigor channels similar BBC Radio 5 Live arsenic good arsenic integer and societal media.

A web leafage created for the caller amusement states: "We are looking for talented shot obsessives who are arsenic comfy explaining the latest tactical innovations to instrumentality civilization to interviewing apical players.

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"All shortlisted candidates volition person an on-screen accidental arsenic good arsenic receiving grooming and upskilling arsenic portion of the scheme.

"After completion of the series, the contention victor volition beryllium besides offered a paid accidental arsenic a BBC Sport contributor.

Gary Lineker volition halt presenting Match of the Day the extremity of this play astatine and volition discontinue Beeb by 2027

"The model for applications volition unfastened successful December 2024 and afloat details volition beryllium disposable connected this leafage successful the coming weeks."

Director of BBC Sport Alex Kay-Jelski has insisted that the accidental could beryllium life-changing for the winner.

He said: "There can’t beryllium galore amended jobs than moving with the BBC’s shot team, truthful if you deliberation you cognize the crippled amended than anyone, get applying.

"This could alteration your life."

Who could regenerate Gary Lineker arsenic MOTD host?

GARY LINEKER dropped the daze quality that helium is QUITTING Match of the Day.

The fashionable presenter, 63, took implicit hosting duties connected the flagship BBC programme from Des Lynam successful 1999.

But aft much than 25 years successful the workplace hotseat, helium has called clip connected his MOTD gig.

But arsenic portion of a immense shake-up, the BBC is considering rotating the presenters connected a play basis.

So with Lineker vacating the chair, caller names volition measurement into his elephantine boots. But who could they be?

MARK CHAPMAN

Chapman, 51, is the evident aboriginal favourite to travel connected from Lineker arsenic MOTD presenter.

He already has the gig arsenic MOTD2 big connected a Sunday nighttime positive landed the presenting occupation for the caller BBC Champions League highlights show.

ALEX SCOTT

Scott gets the motion from the Beeb bosses erstwhile Lineker is away.

The erstwhile right-back, 40, is utilized to presenting the Saturday nighttime amusement arsenic good arsenic unrecorded lucifer sum - positive ticks the container arsenic a erstwhile England international.

GABBY LOGAN

Like Scott, Logan, 51, is 1 of the understudies to measurement successful erstwhile Lineker is not available.

She has done astir gigs since joining the BBC successful 2007, including Olympics, Sports Personality of the Year and Final Score.

MICAH RICHARDS

Lineker's apical prime to regenerate him is exuberant erstwhile Man City defender Richards.

The departing big told his adjacent pal, 36, connected their Stick to Football podcast: "I'd emotion to spot you instrumentality implicit Micah, I deliberation you'd beryllium superb successful the chair."

JASON MOHAMMAD

Mohammad could gain the "promotion" from Final Score to Match of the Day.

The 51-year-old Welshman - who took implicit from Logan successful 2013 - is 1 of the BBC's apical earners already and is much elder than chap Final Score and BBC Sport broadcaster Kelly Somers, who could successful mentation go the main unrecorded big for the day slot.

JEFF STELLING

He couldn't, could he? While Lineker has been the look of Saturday nighttime TV for shot fans for years, the look of the afternoons was Stelling successful his relation arsenic Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday presenter.

He would bring plentifulness of on-screen charisma, wit and legendary TV expertise - but astatine astir 70 and presently with talkSPORT, the Hartlepool instrumentality would not beryllium a inexpensive oregon semipermanent appointment.

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