Micah Richards vows to one up Gary Lineker on Match of the Day in Newcastle bet

Gary Lineker presented Match of the Day successful his boxer shorts aft Leicester City won the Premier League successful 2016, and Micah Richards has vowed to instrumentality it to the adjacent level if Newcastle bash the same

Micah Richards has burned an representation of him presenting Match of the Day bare into the minds of Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer.

The 36-year-old erstwhile Manchester City prima has promised that helium volition contiguous the BBC favourite successful his day suit should Shearer's beloved Newcastle United win the Premier League this season. Speaking connected a caller instalment of The Rest Is Football, Richards said: "If Newcastle triumph the league, I'll bash Match of the Day naked."

It was overmuch to the delight of Lineker and Shearer, who could beryllium heard jeering and cackling successful the background. The erstwhile added: "I wonderment if they'd let maine bash 1 past amusement past if that was the case." Before Shearer past joked: "F***ing hell, everyone would person to get wide screens for that nighttime wouldn't they?" 

As the hosts erstwhile much burst into fits of laughter, Lineker jibed: "Don't spell down that stereotypical way Alan, please." Shearer responded: "I didn't mean for that, I meant for his guns."

The trio past moved connected to different topics of conversation, but arsenic they signed disconnected the podcast, Lineker said: "I'm going to commencement cheering Newcastle connected now, truthful they triumph the league. Micah's promised." Shearer replied: "We don't privation that, man, bash we? And we privation Newcastle to triumph the league, we don't privation that idiot connected our TVs with nout on."

Richards interrupted: "Course we do. All oiled up, it would beryllium fantastic. Be similar Mr Motivator." Lineker added: "Could you imagine? The viewing figures wouldn't beryllium the lone happening that's immense - your guns Micah, your guns."

It comes aft Lineker himself made a akin stake during the 2015/16 Premier League play that if Leicester City won the league, helium would contiguous Match of the Day successful his boxer shorts. Certain bookmakers gave the broadside - who had finished 14th the erstwhile play - likelihood of 5000/1 to execute the feat, but it started to look much and much apt arsenic the Foxes built momentum aboriginal on.

And it adjacent prompted Lineker to instrumentality to societal media successful December 2015 to committedness that helium would contiguous MOTD successful his "undies" if the broadside were capable to unafraid their first-ever Premier League title. Taking to X astatine the time, Lineker wrote: "YES! If Leicester triumph the @premierleague I'll bash the archetypal MOTD of adjacent play successful conscionable my undies."

Leicester yet lifted the rubric successful May 2016, 10 points wide of second-place Arsenal courtesy of 23 wins, 12 draws and conscionable 3 losses for the season. And Lineker stood existent to his word, presenting the archetypal instalment of MOTD for the 2016/17 play successful a brace of achromatic boxer shorts sporting the Leicester City logo.

Opening the amusement arsenic Shearer and Ian Wright beamed down him, Lineker said: "Here we spell again. New season, caller titles, caller managers, caller signings - but isolated from that, thing overmuch has truly changed." Since their 2021 takeover, Newcastle person been seeing a marked magnitude of occurrence successful the Premier League, finishing 4th successful the 2022/23 run and seventh past season.

The Magpies presently beryllium sixth successful the English apical formation successful the existent campaign, 12 points down league leaders Liverpool who person a crippled successful hand. Eddie Howe's broadside person achieved a fig of fantastic results successful the 2024/25 season, including a 2-0 triumph implicit Manchester United and a 3-3 gully with Liverpool successful December, arsenic good arsenic a 1-0 triumph implicit Arsenal successful November and a 1-1 stalemate with Manchester City successful September.

Their astir caller clash with Bournemouth resulted successful a 4-1 drubbing astatine St James Park, and they volition anticipation to instrumentality to winning ways erstwhile they question to St Marys to look Southampton connected Saturday (January 25).

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