If 2025 was the year of the rat for Gary Lineker then 2026 threatens to be the one of the GOAT for the erstwhile Match of the Day host. Whether it is his big-money defection to ITV to fill the void left by Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, his £14m World Cup tie-up with Netflix, or the further expansion of his lucrative podcast empire, there are plenty of reasons why the next 12 months could end up among the “Greatest Of All Time” for the former England captain. All this would have sounded absurd back in May after he...