JAN MOIR: Gary Lineker could can-can on TV in his hideous green T-shirt, eating a bag of Walkers cheese 'n' onion while shouting 'Vote for Keir' - and BBC bigwigs wouldn't bat an eyelid By Jan Moir for the Daily Mail Published: 21:10 EDT, 18 June 2024 | Updated: 21:12 EDT, 18 June 2024 e-mail View comments Until he stepped in front of a BBC camera in a hideous T-shirt a few days ago, few had any idea that Gary Lineker had his own menswear range at Next. But the second he did, fashion alarm bells shrieked out across the nation. Why? Clearly, this was the kind of garment no stylish man would seriously consider unless he was being blackmailed, had lost his entire wardrobe in a house fire or was getting paid to wear the damn thing.
Or receiving some kind of financial benefit, at the very least. Look at it! The top boasts sleeves which somehow manage to be puffed, capped and short all at the same time — quite a design feat. Even worse, it comes in a particularly awful shade of green that makes one think of municipal radiators or rancid pea soup.
If it were a Farrow & Ball paint colour it would be called Dead Frog Breath and it is not doing the 63-year-old football pundit any favours, except perhaps economically, like I said. Made of a chafe-tastic cotton-viscose-nylon mix, the garment from his Next X Gary Lineker range costs £16, which is less than a big box of the Walkers crisps he is also paid to advertise. Gary Lineker presents the BBC’s coverage of England’s o.