Gary Lineker Refers To Muslim Prayer Goal Celebration As ‘Eating Grass’ On Al Jazeera TV (Video)

Chris Wright

5th, October 2012

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By Chris Wright

Summing up the midweek Champions League action for Al Jazeera – we’ll say that again, AL JAZEERA – host Gary Lineker was suddenly struck by the compulsion to refer to Montpellier pair Karim Ait-Fana and Younes Belhanda’s Muslim prayer goal celebration – made popular over here by the likes of Demba Ba – as ‘eating grass’…

The comment, unsurprisingly, didn’t go down overly well with the Muslim contingent of Al Jazeera’s audience, and Lineker took to Twitter to apologise-without-apologising shortly after…

Once again, AL JAZEERA.