Lineker To Step Back From Presenting Match Of The Day

[choux]

...until an agreement is reached on his social media use, the BBC has said.

Bet he is feeling less cocky now. No doubt he still gets paid. Time will tell if his principles or ego win the day.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64920557

[ichkeria]

At this rate it’s going to be Gazza and Andrew Neil presenting Saturday’s MOTD :-)

[10ClarionSt]

I hope he doesn't come back; along with the rest of the football crew. They're useless, over-paid has beens who take up half of MOTD when they should just be showing football.

[ynnafymmi]

If it is a million pounds a year for spouting keich,i will do it for the next twenty years.And i wont push any left-wing fascist views down my viewers throats either.

[ichkeria]

I dislike “whataboutery” but there are folk who blithely compare the EU to the USSR.
Which must really confuse people in Georgia and Ukraine just now.
But it’s their opinion which they are entitled to.
If the 1930s Germany thing is the reason for all the fuss then it sure is a freedom of speech issue because everyone knows Gary Lineker would not be a supporter of many of this govt’s policies.
So expecting his to keep quiet in the issue is rather naive

[ichkeria]

“If it is a million pounds a year for spouting keich,i will do it for the next twenty years”

If you aren’t going to get a million pounds will you then stop?
Asking for a friend ;-)

[Redhelen72]

What anti semitic comments has GL made?

[fender62]

jumped up ex player speaking fro his ivory tower, who does not use public services, but i guess to him, the majority tax payers don't count
magic money money trees, less your on a waiting list for cancer or heart treatment or other fatal diseases, majority dont matter.
id love a one to one convo with him, no body guards...

[Atheist]

fender; you're talking like a thug. I thought that physical threats weren't allowed here.

[Ellipsis]

What top presenters go there for the money? Lineker will get paid more elsewhere if the BBC don't want him any more.

It's not about the money. It's about a football pundit being cancelled about nothing to do with football, and not on the BBC.

[ichkeria]

Shearer, Scott, Richards and Wright are pulling out too.
And that’s probably the tip of the iceberg

[Ellipsis]

[ichkeria]

Even Jeremy Clarkson is behind him!

[Ellipsis]

That post by Avatar Image ynnafymmi!

[ichkeria]

Lol
@Ellipsis

[Redhelen72]

Lol no he did not!
Please post the text where he called them nazis!

[Old_Geezer]

If the BBC contract stated no getting involved in political commentary then best the BBC & Mr. Lineker part ways. Then he is free to exercise his right of free speech and make as big a twit of himself as he wishes.

[ichkeria]

If Lineker had tweeted “I think this govt policy is really great. I heartily recommend it. “ there’d have been no objection from the govt.
So no matter where you stand on the Nazi Germany bit of it, that puts the kibosh on the “impartiality” argument