Gary Lineker has come under fire for one of his tweets celebrating the Lioness’ historic Euro 2022 win, which featured a now-deleted, ill-judged pun.
, leading the broadcaster to delete the offending post, featuring an ill-judged pun.
His now-deleted tweet seemed to refer to Chloe removing her England shirt in celebration, spinning it round over her head, but plenty of his followers were unimpressed with the remark, sparking an online discussion. Another slammed his comment as ‘the puerile joke of a 13-year-old boy who has never see a bra before’.
Gary then responded to a request for him to apologise and ‘condemn’ sexist responses to his tweet on Monday morning, explaining he had deleted the tweet as many had ‘missed the context’ by not seeing the game.
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