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Article: Football crazy Richard Fletcher asks some investors who got their fingers burnt on the beautiful game what advice they have for Gary Lineker

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The Sunday Telegraph London
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October 27, 2002
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After a charmed career, Gary Lineker, football player, TV pundit and Mr Nice, finally took a big risk with the announcement that he is entering the murky world of soccer finances.

Following in the not-so-successful tracks of Terry Venables at Tottenham Hotspur and Francis Lee at Manchester City, Lineker is charging to the rescue of his former club, Leicester City. With debts of pounds 50m, Leicester is the latest football club to be forced into administration under UK insolvency legislation.

Alongside Greg Clarke, the former chairman of Aim-listed Leicester, David Ross, the chief operating officer of Carphone Warehouse, and Jon Holmes, the football agent, Lineker hopes to rescue Leicester ...

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