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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Former Match of the Day host Des Lynam says current MOTD presenter Gary Lineker "wasn't ...
THE news that Grandstand is being axed came as no great surprise yesterday to ex-presenter Des Lynam. The veteran TV star who worked as a reporter and presenter on the show from 1978 to 1999 said ...
BBC legend Des Lynam has given a rare interview giving his take on the current crop of broadcasting pundits and says his Match of the Day successor Gary Lineker 'wasn’t comfortable at the beginning' ...
Des Lynam says Gary Lineker's £1.3m BBC salary is 'hard to justify' Story by Mark Duell ... before starting on its Grandstand sports coverage in 1979 and Match Of The Day in 1988.
Grandstand was a British television sport programme. ... Des Lynam, and Steve Rider. Changes in the structure of the programme during its last few years, however, ...
Former BBC Match Of The Day presenter Des Lynam has said Gary Lineker’s £1.35 million salary is “the market” for his “first-class” services. ... Lynam began his career at the BBC in 1968 on BBC Radio ...
Des Lynam: Seventies style Coleman has been followed by a number of top-class presenters over the years. Desmond Lynam hosted his first show in 1979, admitting later that the prospect of fronting ...
But it was really the Italian job of 1990, when Gascoigne wept his way into English hearts and was reborn as Gazza, that elevated Lynam to Des, after he signed off reports of the World Cup saying ...
Former BBC Match Of The Day presenter Des Lynam has said Gary Lineker’s £1.35 million salary is “the market” for ... before starting on its Grandstand sports coverage in 1979 and Match Of ...