{"id":302811,"date":"2026-02-17T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302811\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:03:09","slug":"gary-lineker-they-said-his-chances-of-survival-were-between-10-and-20pc-everything-stops-when-you-hear-the-word-leukaemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302811\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Lineker: \u2018They said his chances of survival were between 10 and 20pc. Everything stops when you hear the word leukaemia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The broadcaster and former striker recalls the moment his world was turned upside down\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former England striker Gary Lineker holding his son George as a child  (Photo by Matthew Ashton\/EMPICS via Getty Images)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/05eac884-053d-4f60-aa41-864c6e77a258.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Former England striker Gary Lineker holding his son George as a child  (Photo by Matthew Ashton\/EMPICS via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cWhat I remember from that period of my life was a recurring dream that I would be carrying a little white coffin. When I went to sleep, it was in my head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Gary Lineker\u2019s voice cracks as he recalls the nightmare he lived through almost 35 years ago, as he reflects on the time when his baby son was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 The broadcaster and former striker recalls the moment his world was turned upside down Former England striker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,14061,112],"class_list":["post-302811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kevin-palmer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}