The grim political murder of Jewish-Israeli diplomats in Washington alongside Israel’s continuing massacre of innocents in Gaza put the furore over Gary Lineker’s leaving Match of the Day (MOTD) into perspective.  Yet on Sunday evening, viewers across these islands will celebrate the end of Lineker’s enormously successful career presenting television on the BBC and remember his life as a supremely gifted soccer player. It will be a sad and fond farewell for the highest-paid presenter in the BBC, who will depart after the last MOTD of the season; there will be no compensatory pay-off for a voluntary retiree. Fans who…

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