Gary Lineker will be barred from paying tribute at a memorial service for a friend, football writer Brian Glanville, because of his attacks on Israel.
Celebrated reporter Glanville, who died aged 93, was Jewish and his son Mark said: ‘I am not having Lineker anywhere near Dad’s memorial.’
Mark’s sister Jo had suggested asking Lineker to speak at a service at St Bride’s Church in Fleet Street as the family knew he had been friends with Glanville since his early days at Leicester.
But Lineker, 64, has been forced to leave his Match Of The Day role early after sharing an anti-Zionism post that had an illustration of a rat, which is how the Nazis characterised Jews.
Mark said: ‘I can’t have somebody coming to speak at my Dad’s memorial service who, though not anti-Semitic, is someone who is giving ammunition to people who are anti-Semites.
