Lineker defends mask mandate by sending tweet about people s****** themselves

Gary Lineker has defended the new mask mandate by calling back to his infamous Italia '90 moment for England.

Masks will once again be mandatory in shops and on public transport from Tuesday after concerns grew about the new Omicron coronavirus variant.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement of the restrictions over the weekend was met with backlash, with some arguing the rollout of the vaccine program was meant to have put an end to such measures.

Former Tottenham striker Lineker hit back at those who oppose the decision with a sarcastic tweet comparing coughing in a mask to the action of 's****** yourself', which is exactly what he did at the World Cup.

He said: "If you fart in your trousers and accidentally follow through, most of the s*** will stay in your trousers. I’m an expert on this."

Lineker often pokes fun at the incident during the match versus the Republic of Ireland when he accidentally went to the toilet on the football pitch.

He recently joked doing it next to Paul Gascoigne was his claim to fame.

Lineker said on the Match of the Day podcast last year: "I'd been ill overnight and it was the opening day of the cup and I'd woken up a few times with diarrhoea, etc.

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"I didn't want to tell Bobby Robson because I thought he might leave me out of the team, and I wanted to play, as always.

"Anyway the game started and I was alright, then about 20 minutes I started cramping. Somehow I made it through to half-time and I thought I'd be alright.

"We go out the for the second half, we're ten or 15 minutes in and I'm starting to cramp again and I think, 'Oh, I'm in trouble here'.

"The ball went left down the Irish left hand side and I ran across and tried to block something. I sort of fell to the ground and relaxed for a second and it just went 'boom'.

"It was like, 'Oh my god,' but it was everywhere. There's a bit if you ever see the footage, where Gary Stevens comes over and asks what's wrong.

"And I go, 'I've s*** myself'. I just didn't know what to do. Thank god I had dark blue shorts on that day. I'm shovelling it out and rubbing myself on the grass like a dog.

"It was amazing how much space I found after that though, I was stinking."

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