New frontrunner emerges to replace Gary Lineker as Match of the Day host

Mark Chapman is the caller frontrunner to win Gary Lineker arsenic the BBC’s Match of the Day host.

The 50-year-old, presently presents Match of the Day 2 connected Sunday evening and besides fronts the BBC’s sports sum connected Radio Five Live.

Chapman has present been handed the main presenting relation for the BBC’s Champions League highlights show, which begins adjacent week.

For the archetypal clip ever, the BBC volition amusement lucifer highlights from Europe’s elite nine contention aft agreeing a three-year woody with UEFA worthy astir £20 million.

According to The Times, Chapman’s relation present puts him arsenic the starring contender to regenerate Lineker arsenic Match of the Day’s host.

The study claims that the BBC is inactive deciding connected a successor for Lineker, whose £1.35 million-a-year declaration expires astatine the extremity of the season.

Jermaine Jenas had been 1 of the favourites to beryllium the adjacent Match of the Day big earlier helium was sacked by the BBC past period for sending unsolicited texts to 2 pistillate unit members.

The erstwhile Tottenham, Newcastle United and England midfielder, who is simply a father-of-four, has said helium felt ‘ashamed’ of his actions and that he was ‘deeply sorry’ for what happened in the lead-up to his sacking.

Jenas said aft confessing to the allegations: ‘I consciousness ashamed. I consciousness I’ve fto everybody down, friends, family, colleagues.

‘The handling of the concern wasn’t great. It was quick, and hell.

‘I don’t deliberation determination was a crippled program for erstwhile they were going to denote they’d fired me.

‘I deliberation antithetic departments were being told antithetic things. I deliberation it’s shocking.’

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