Former Leicester City forward and club favourite Gary Lineker has explained that he was offered the chance to manage the Foxes.
Gary Lineker is a former England international, and Leicester City legend and fan turned Match of the Day presenter.
He retired from football in 1994 after an iconic career which saw him play 654 club games with 331 goals.
Of this, 216 appearances and 103 goals came as a City player where he broke through after working through the academy.
He also had a prolific England career with 48 goals for his country in 80-caps.
He also made an impact at more clubs than just Leicester though, as he played for both Spurs and Barcelona to mention a few.
Lineker has now explained that he almost took up a management role after his playing career.
Lineker on being offered coaching jobs
Speaking on the Rest Is Football Podcast, Lineker explained the offer and outlined the reasons he refused along with explaining why coaching just isn’t for him.
“Because it never appealed, for a variety of reasons,” he revealed when questioned on why he never became a manager.
“I don’t think I’d have been very good at it. I don’t think I could have coped with leaving someone out of the team.
“I never really loved training, I found it quite boring most of the time, so if I didn’t like training, I’m not going to really like watching training. It just never, ever, ever crossed my mind.”
Lineker then explained the offers he received including one from Leicester.
“I got a couple of job offers, I think Villa, Doug Ellis asked me to be Villa manager, and Leicester did at one point. I got a phone call from Doug Ellis (former Aston Villa chairman), it was shortly after, I can’t remember the era apart from the fact that it was relatively soon after I’d finished playing, and he said ‘would you be interested in the Aston Villa job’, and I just said ‘management is not for me, sorry Doug’.”