Leicester City legend Gary Lineker has had a Twitter spat with ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage over a Brexit protest.

Yesterday, Farage and other protesters threw dead fish into the Thames outside Parliament in opposition to the Brexit transition deal.

The stunt was to show that the fishing industry is unhappy that the UK will not regain control of the country's fishing waters when Brexit kicks in next year.

Sharing a picture of Farage dropping a dead fish into the river, remain supporter Lineker tweeted: "Rarely have two such slimey, smelly, slippery creatures held on to some fish."

The scathing tweet did not go unnoticced by Farage, who replied and said: "Gary thinks it's funny that an entire British industry has been devastated. He is in the same category as Bob Geldof."

Refusing to let the argument end, adding the hashtag #hakenews, Lineker said: "No, I think you're funny. Funny how you pretend to care about the industry yet during the three years that you were a member of the European Parliament Fisheries Committee, you attended one out of 42 meetings."

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Lineker is not shy of a Twitter spat, often getting involved in online debates.

Last year, he was called an 'overpaid, over-feathered skunk' by a UKIP source.

The words came after Lineker criticised the new UKIP logo, pointing out the similarities between it and the Premier League logo.

A Sky News reporter also shared a unique comment that another UKIP source had shared on their thoughts on the Leicester lad.

Lewis Goodall tweeted: "On Gary Lineker's criticism of new logo, senior UKIP source tells us Lineker is 'a sanctimonious overpaid over-feathered skunk'."

Speaking in the third person, Lineker shared this tweet and said: "And like pretty much everyone else, he's 'over UKIP'."