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Gary Lineker is known for many things. If you were to rank them in order of public knowledge, they would probably go a bit like this:

5. He supports Leicester City.

4. He does a mighty fine job of presenting Match of the Day.

3. CRISPS.

2. He was one of England's finest ever goalscorers.

1. He ACTUALLY confessed to pooing his pants during England's opening game of the 1990 World Cup.

Incredibly, the jug-eared genius has now managed to incorporate (at least) three of these things into one terrifying tweet. After Leicester's 2-1 win against Chelsea put his beloved Foxes back at the top of the table, Lineker got a little carried away - and promised to present MOTD in his pants if they go on to win the title:

Frankly, this bizarre wager with himself would have been reason enough for us to write a news story. But then Mrs Gary Lineker, Danielle Bux, decided to beat Twitter's trolls to the punch.

The many comedians of social media reply to every, single Lineker tweet by telling him he "s**t on" whatever he's mentioned.

Normally these are just abusive messages from online strangers. So perhaps it was a nice change of pace to get a bit of trolling from his own wife:

Well played, Mrs L.

And for those of you who still don't believe that England's third highest goalscorer of all-time once soiled himself on football's biggest stage… feast your eyes on this: