If this was an act of revenge, it was quite the killer blow. A little over a year after Gary Lineker was sacked by BBC bosses, he's been snapped up by bitter rival ITV.

Lineker has been aligned with Netflix during the World Cup through The Rest Is Football podcast but will appear on ITV’s coverage for Germany’s clash with Ivory Coast

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