Gary Lineker signs off from final Match of the Day as he leaves BBC after 26 years

Gary Lineker curbed tears as he signed from the last version of today's match after 26 years in the hot seat and officially left BBC.

The host announced in November that he will leave the football exhibition at the end of the Premier League season, which ended on Sunday.

It was scheduled to remain with the BBC for the front coverage of the Men's FA Cup and the World Cup, but he left the company now completely after apologizing for the participation of a publication for anti -Semitic social media.

In Swansung on Sunday, Linker appears to have a reference to the controversy, and opened the show by telling the viewers, “It was not supposed to end this way” – before going to convert the line to a reference to the last day of the season.

At the end of the program, Linker was presented with a memorial cover and the golden shoe by critics Alan Shearer and Mikha Richards, who were next to him.

“It was a great honor to host today's match for a quarter of a century. It was completely happy,” he said.

He added: “Speak directly to the camera for the viewers at home,” and thank you for all of you.

Thank you for watching, thank you for all your love and support over the years.

“It was very special, and I am sorry that your team was always at the last time. It's time to say goodbye.”

The former England striker replaced Dis Lynn as a major introduction to the BBC's leading football program in 1999, and continued to become the highest wage.

He has hit the headlines to broadcast his views beyond football on social media.

He was suspended in 2023 to obtain a post on the government's asylum policy at the time, with many of his BBC's offers and brilliant providers coming out of support.

After returning Lineker, the British Broadcasting Corporation has released new rules for social media.

Earlier this month, Linker was criticized for a postponed social media participation on Zionism, which included an illustration of mice, and used historically as anti -Semitic insult.

Linker apologized, saying he had not seen the picture and “would not consciously restore anything hostile to Semitism.”

However, it has been announced that the BBC would have left before what was expected, and that Sunday's offer would be the last.

In a statement at that time, Linker said that football was “in the heart of my life” and that he was deeply interested in the game and his work in BBC, but he realized “the mistake and the annoyance that caused it.”

“The retreat now seems to be the path of responsible work,” he said.

The General Manager of BBC Tim Davie Lineker thanked him for being “a distinctive voice in the BBC football for more than two decades,” and said they “agreed that he would back down from making further application after this season.”

The last episode of Lineker on the chair on Sunday witnessed an interview with ARNE Slot, Liverpool Director, while they were collecting the Premier League Cup.

He said, “Thank you for being a great introduction to the BBC show that you saw several times when I lived in the Netherlands, and I am still now.”

The show started with a group of goals of the former Everton and Spears Linker striker, and later looked at the most prominent time at the top of today's match.

This included a famous famous presentation while he was wearing boxing shorts in Leicester City, as he promised, after his childhood team won the Premier League in 2016.

Shearer and Richards also praised the diseases of the long friendly, as they presented a montage that included testimonies such as Alan Hansen, Ian Wright, Paul Gascin, as well as the late Johan Cruyff, the singer Andrea Bossili and sons of Linker.

“You will not believe that, but you will be missed,” the director of Manchester City Pep Guardiola offered.

“I was great for me and I was incredible to match today,” Shearer added.

In January, it was revealed that Kelly Kitts, Mark Chapman and Japi Logan will jointly take over in the day match that they provide responsibilities from the beginning of the 2025-26 season.

“I would like to wish Gabi, Mark and Kelly all the best when they sit in this chair,” Linker said.

“The program is at the best of hands.”