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Gary Lineker blocked from addressing Jewish writer’s memorial

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Gary Lineker may have been finally forced out of the Beeb, but the ex-footballer is still managing to make headlines. Now it transpires that the son of the late award-winning football journalist Brian Glanville – who was made football correspondent for the Sunday Times in 1958 and covered every World Cup for the next 44 years – has forbidden Lineker from speaking at his Jewish father’s memorial ceremony after the pundit shared a controversial post about Zionism on social media. Mark Glanville hit out at the former Match of the Day presenter after his sister Jo suggested Lineker speak at their father’s service due to the journalistic duo’s close acquaintance – and blasted the ex-pundit’s post as ‘crossing a line’.

Despite his father’s friendship with Lineker, Glanville has insisted his late father – who died last month aged 93 – would not have wanted the ex-pundit to speak at the ceremony.

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