Gary Lineker, the host of Match of the Day, has opened up about the time he was once sued by using using former Liverpool famous character Harry Kewell.
Kewell wasn’t completely happy when Lineker wrote a newspaper column criticising his swap from Leeds to Liverpool in 2003. The case ended up in London’s High Court in 2005.
Kewell accused Lineker of a “hurtful and humiliating attack” over the switch in an article titled “Kewell cross made me experience ashamed of the game”.
Kewell’s transfer used to be as soon as dealt with by means of his private supervisor Bernie Mandic, who began out talks with Liverpool himself. Mandic’s business enterprise Max Sport reportedly received a limit of the £5m rate Liverpool paid.
Lineker used to be concerned about Mandic’s involvement and, in his column, suggested that sellers want to be banned from working for each the player and the selling club. Lineker denied libel and claimed it was once honest comment. He now calls the incident “ludicrous”.
“Do you understand Harry Kewell sued me? It’s incredibly a whilst ago, I used to have a column and it used to be once around transfers,” Lineker referred to on The Rest Is Football podcast as he, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards discussed the high-quality Australian game enthusiasts in the Premier League.
“I was once speakme about how marketers no longer be allowed to signify each occasions in terms of the soccer membership on every facets and the player himself due to the fact of conflict of interest. He sued me over this due to the fact I referred to as him naive for that. It was obvious that his agent took the hump.
“I used to be once in courtroom docket for 4 or five days giving evidence, it was once ludicrous and needless to say it did now not transpire that he received the case.
