Dan Walker breaks silence on Match Of The Day talks after becoming new favourite to replace Gary Lineker

THE contention for Gary Lineker’s occupation presenting Match Of The Day is gathering pace.

But his hotly tipped replacement, Dan Walker, who has returned to football programming for Prime Video, insists there’s lone 1 of Gary’s jobs helium fancies – being the look of Walkers crisps.

Asked astir the rumours he’s successful enactment for the BBC One’s flagship amusement astatine the TRIC Christmas lunch, erstwhile Football Focus big Dan said: “Match Of The Day is simply a superb programme and I emotion it and I’m going to screen shot now.

“But If there’s thing Gary’s got that I would like, it’d beryllium his crisp contract.

“Because, you know, my surname, it couldn’t beryllium immoderate better, could it?”

Gary, 63, revealed successful November helium volition permission the programme astatine the extremity of the play aft 25 years arsenic host.

A fig of names person been linked with the vacancy including Mark Chapman, Kelly Cates, Alex Scott, Gabby Logan and Kelly Somers.

Regular Match of the Day pundits Alan Shearer and Micah Richards are besides successful the frame.

Recent information showed Shearer to beryllium the viewers' penchant to win Lineker.

But it appears ex-Manchester City right-back Richards, 36, has been dismissed by Lineker.

Speaking on The Rest Is Football, Richards attempted to regularisation himself retired of the running.

He said: "You cognize what, tin I conscionable get this retired there, right.

"When radical are saying Micah Richards is perchance going to instrumentality implicit a presenter, I deliberation it's a monolithic disrespect to each the presenters retired there. There's truthful galore talented people.

"Just due to the fact that I'm a pundit, I tin springiness penetration to a player, I consciousness I cognize the game, I ticker tactics.”

"But to instrumentality implicit presenting 1 of the astir iconic shows, not conscionable successful sport, but that BBC's ever had?"

He past went connected to add: "There's truthful galore others they tin prime implicit me, I conscionable can't judge they would adjacent enactment my sanction successful the hat."

Lineker past playfully enactment Richards successful his spot by insisting determination was nary accidental of him being chosen anyway.

He said: "Micah, you tin wholly relax. I tin guarantee you they won't beryllium asking you."

Chapman remains the favourite to regenerate Lineker.

IT’S WHO DARES WINGS

WHO would person thought you’d spot specified daring outfits conscionable aft World War One?

The nightclubs of London’s Soho successful 1918 are brought live to eye-popping effect successful these shots from upcoming BBC One play Dope Girls.

The bid lifts the lid connected a infinitesimal of intersexual liberation, decadence and often intoxicating glamour arsenic women took matters into their ain hands to gain themselves a living.

Single parent Kate Galloway, played by Julianne Nicholson, is astatine the centre of the capital’s exploding nine country arsenic she sets up a nightspot to supply for her girl Evie, and enters into a beingness of transgression activities nether the chemoreceptor of the police.

Eliza Scanlen plays Violet Davies, 1 of the country’s archetypal question of pistillate constabulary officers, who is assigned to spell undercover astatine the nine and analyse the illicit goings-on.

The women she runs into see ballsy Billie Cassidy (Umi Myers), a dazzlingly bohemian dancer.

Take your seats, ladies and gents, and tune successful next year.