Lineker rap for 'rude' Sugar

Former Tottenham and England striker Gary Lineker has attacked Sir Alan Sugar, who is stepping down as chairman of the White Hart Lane club.  

Sugar has sold 27 per cent of his 40 per cent holding in Spurs to entertainment group ENIC for £22million.

Lineker, who left Spurs for Japan in 1992, wrote in his column in the Sunday Telegraph: "I knew Alan Sugar only towards the end of my three years at the club and had very few dealings with him, but my abiding memory of him was not a particularly sweet one.

"In fact it was quite the opposite. He was incredibly rude to the Japanese people who came to the club to negotiate my transfer back in 1992."

Lineker added: "He was not the man to revive the 'glory glory years' and from the start one sensed that would be the case."