England legend Gary Lineker on BT Sport's What I Wore series

Gary Lineker has become the latest to take a sartorial stroll down memory lane in BT Sport's What I Wore series.

The former England star turned television presenter shared memories and highlights from his club and international careers while perusing a selection of the shirts he used to wear.

Lineker started his career at Leicester City before playing for Everton, Barcelona, Tottenham Hotspur and Japanese club Nagoya Grampus Eight.

In addition, he scored 48 goals in 80 appearances for England, helping them to the semi-finals of the World Cup in 1990.

The first shirt presented to Lineker is the Leicester City home shirt in which he made his debut during the 1978-1979 season though he admits he has little recollection of it.

But there's no question how important the club is to Lineker, who was born in the East Midlands city in 1960.

'They are massively important to me. I grew up in Leicester and I watched the club from when I was seven years old and I used to go every week with my dad and my grandad,' he said.

'I watched them lose in the FA Cup final in 1969 and dreamed about playing for them and I eventualyl did. I was at the club for eight years.'

Lineker said that following retirement from playing, his childhood allegiance to Leicester started to flood back and they became his team once again.

Holding up a Riyad Mahrez shirt from Leicester's extraordinary Premier League title triumph in 2015-16, Lineker says: 'That was the greatest sporting highlight of my life and I had nothing to do with it.'

Lineker moved from Leicester to Everton in the summer of 1985 for £800,000 and went on to enjoy his most prolific season on Merseyside, scoring 40 goals in 57 matches.

'They were the best team I played for - best club side,' Lineker recalls. 'They were such a good side in the mid-80s. We should have won the Double. I was probably the best goalscorer, though not the best player.'

Because he only spent one season with Everton, attention quickly switched to Barcelona, who signed Lineker for £2.8m after he won the Golden Boot with England at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.

Lineker announced himself by scoring a hat-trick in the Clasico with Real Madrid and the shirt in that game brings back special memories.

'It is special, it feels like you've arrived and you're at the top of your game,' he says.

Though Lineker scored 21 goals during his first season at the Nou Camp and followed that up with 20 in 1987-88, things turned sour when Johan Cruyff was appointed manager.

'The third season, Cruyff came and I didn't really fit in his mindset. You were only allowed two foreign players then and he started messing me around, started playing me on the wing all season,' Lineker says.

'He killed my goalscoring ratio and it was kind of obvious that he was winding me up to get the hump and kick off.

'But I knew what he was doing, so I just played my game and ended up whipping one in when we won the European Cup Winners' Cup final.

'In an ideal world in his system I'd have been a centre forward and it would have been perfect for me.'

Lineker duly left in the summer of 1989 and joined Tottenham though he came close to signing for Manchester United.

'Tottenham were worried they didn't have the money to do the deal - they had some financial problems - and they said Alex Ferguson had been on so I thought I might be going to Manchester United,' he recalls. 'But Tottenham got the money together.'

While browsing Tottenham kits, Lineker recalls a story of when he convinced team-mate Paul Gascoigne to take a pre-match bath to loosen his muscles.

Unfortunately, the warm water turned Gazza's face bright red and left him disorientated and highly ineffective.

'We were 2-0 down after 15 minutes and he's shouting 'I'm all giddy, I'm all giddy.' We got in at half-time and Terry Venables is asking what is going on.

'And Gazza said: 'It's Lineker's fault, he told me to have a bath and now I'm all dizzy.'

The clip concludes with a series of England shirts from the late 1980s and, of course, their run to the semi-finals of Italia '90.

Lineker says the match against Poland at the 1986 World Cup, in which he scored a hat-trick, proved a turning point in his career.

'1986 changed my life. I'd gone five or six games without a goal and that game against Poland changed my life,' he says.

'After that, I might have never played for England again, we'd have gone home in disgrace.

'But then a hat-trick in 20-odd minutes. Then I've won the Golden Boot and gone to Barcelona.'

While reflecting on the 1990 World Cup, when England were just a penalty shoot-out away from the final, Lineker says he only watched the semi-final with West Germany back for the first time about 18 months ago.

'It is the one thing I've looked back on and thought 'If only'. We'd have been strong favourites in the final.

'Germany was the semi-final and we were the better side. I watched it in its entirety about 18 months ago and we played well, we were unlucky.'

Finally, Lineker is asked which kit he'd save from a burning building and he chooses the England shirt from the Poland match in 1986.

Further episodes of What I Wore will be released in over the coming weeks and will be available to watch on the BT Sport YouTube channel, Twitter, Facebook and at BTSport.com/WhatIWore.