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Mr Nice footballer Gary Lineker becomes voice of post-Brexit outrage

Updated on: 11 November,2016 10:24 AM IST  | 
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Having spent his football career at centre-forward, Gary Lineker's outspoken stance in the aftermath of Britain's Brexit referendum has seen him proclaimed as the country's most prominent left-winger

Mr Nice footballer Gary Lineker becomes voice of post-Brexit outrage

Gary Lineker

Gary Lineker
Gary Lineker


London: Having spent his football career at centre-forward, Gary Lineker's outspoken stance in the aftermath of Britain's Brexit referendum has seen him proclaimed as the country's most prominent left-winger.


Lineker, renowned as English football's Mr Nice during his playing days, said he was "ashamed of my generation" after Britain voted to leave the European Union on June 23.


He has called people questioning the age of child migrants "hideously racist", ridiculed Nigel Farage, leader of the pro-Brexit UK Independence Party, and branded America's new president-elect Donald Trump "a joke".

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