To think Lineker should apologise for his tweet

[Margot78]

The idiot has put ‘the lionesses have only gone and done it and Kelly is England’s heroine bra none’. Why did he feel the need for a sexist quip about the goal celebration? So embarrassing.

Will this thread get deleted too if we don’t agree with the OP? I’m assuming he wouldn’t have used the phrase bra none if she hadn’t run round the pitch in her bra.

He he is advocate for women’s football and probably has done more for their game than most of the people complaining about his tweet!

But it was in context. She showed her bra. He tweeted it. I’m not sure how that’s sexist.

Oh for any favour get over yourself

It's just banter you never heard of something called a sense of humour?

Exactly when she did it I thought WTF is she doing?

What a creep
he should delete

Why @LovelyYellowLabrador?

It would be casual sexism if she hadn’t taken her top off exposing her bra. As she ran around in a sports bra it was perfectly acceptable tweet.

Because you're not meant to take your top off or even pull up the front and put it over your head. The men get a yellow card for it too

I thought it was quite funny. She showed her (large and and modest) bra off, he made a pun about it.
What's wrong with mentioning bras?

Get a grip OP and stop trying to make a point by being offended at nothing.🙄

Get your bras in a row

I think you should apologize for starting this post.

JFC.

It was a joke kidding her about taking her shirt off and wearing only her bra after her goal.

She celebrated in her bra

the tweet made reference to that

the tweet seems ok to me

i don’t know anything about his character.

You haven't told us why?

Absolutely this ^^ Gary Lineker has been a staunch advocate and very vocal supporter of women's football for a very long time. Way before it started to gain traction with the public.

He quite often posts what are intended to be humorous quips or puns etc on the games he's watching, which are usually men's matches. This is no different.

A female player taking her top off to leg it around the pitch in just her sports bra is quite an unusual event in women's football. Ergo - being an unusual occurrence, he's made a pun. That's literally all it is.

Actually, what would be sexist is to treat women differently. An integral part of football is the jokes and fun element - have you not seen the headlines, tweets, comments etc aimed at male players over the years?? This is absolutely in keeping with the spirit of the game, and it's beyond ridiculous to suggest that it's sexist. And I consider myself to be an ardent and active feminist.

If people write things about him, it’ll be deleted. I’m in no doubt he’s a creep.

Also, just so you know it's not one way traffic - many years ago during his playing days, Lineker shit himself on the pitch. He was unwell with a diarrhoea bug and couldn't make it off the pitch.

If you're not a football fan, you won't be aware that Lineker is one of our greatest male strikers of all time. His record is exceptional - he's the 4th highest English male striker of all time. But do you know what people regularly mention to him? Yep, that's right. The time he did a poo on the pitch. And he takes it in good spirits, and has even joked about it himself. Shit happens (see - pun??!).

There was a dog that got loose on a football pitch during a match once, and the dog did a poo on the pitch. Lineker tweeted the video clip of the dog having a poo along with the caption "always good to see clips of my playing days". Humour.

Today was a momentous occasion for women's sports in this country. Doesn't mean we can't have a joke about things too.

Absolutely 100%.

A random reference to her underwear would be creepy and inappropriate.

Making a pun because the player took her shirt off and ran around in her bra - and got booked for it - makes it entirely fair game and reasonable. Women don't generally whip their shirts off during matches, it's a moment that will be remembered.

If anyone else had said it, I wouldn't care. But he's a vile pig so I'm happy for him to be condemned for breathing never mind saying something.

😂