GARY Lineker has told how his new puppy trashed five sets of curtains after he was accidentally left home alone.
The Match of the Day host, 61, blamed a misunderstanding with his eldest son George for the carnage by his rescue dog Filbert.
Gary said the mutt gets into a “terrible state” when alone.
Ex Danielle Bux was dogsitting at his home while he was away in Ibiza, but she had to go out one afternoon.
So the previous night, ex-footballer Gary asked his four sons via text if any of them could look after Filbert the next day.
He said: “I woke up the next morning, George had replied, ‘I can do it’. I went, ‘Great’.
“So that evening I called George. I went ‘Everything OK with Fils?’ He went ‘F***!’. I went, ‘What do you mean?’
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“He went, ‘I thought you meant tomorrow’ — because he’d woken up seeing, ‘Can you do it tomorrow’ the morning after I’d sent the text.”
Siberian Husky-cross Filbert, who Lineker adopted from a US charity in April, was left alone for around five hours.
He told podcast Walking the Dog of the damage: “Five sets of curtains. Five. One in the front room, two in the bedroom, one in the main room downstairs and one in the guest bedroom.”
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Filbert is named after the former ground of Leicester City — Gary’s first senior club.
Asked if it would help to play Match of the Day in the house, for Filbert to see and hear him, Gary replied: “I’m worried he might not like the show or he might like Alan Shearer more than me. That would be awful.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
