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

[bobbinwales]

Oh the irony...whose sounding like a headmistress

[naomi24]

Merely a (hopefully) helpful suggestion to someone who doesn't appear to see anything wrong in what he said. RH. If you read that you will (hopefully) learn something.

[Hymie]

Senior management at the BBC need to tell the Tory government to Foxtrot Oscar.

[naomi24]

Why? This isn't the government's decision.

[choux]

roy, celebrity/celebrities are correct words to describe such people but somehow they always grate on me. I think it is a tacit (for many folk) inclusion of "adulation".

[THECORBYLOON]

https://twitter.com/LallyLangford/status/1634279868606173194?s=20

[dave50]

Why are those in the arts and entertainment industry so out of touch with the vast majority of the rest of the population?

[choux]

I can remember enjoying MOTD way back when Kenneth Wolstenholme was the unseen commentator and a fine job he did. I have never seen the need to "pad out" tv coverage with the addition of lengthy contributions from numerous pundits. (This also applies to many other sports.)

Has the BBC has elevated itself to the level of a deity?:
the BBC giveth and the BBC taketh away.

[Ellipsis]

It went downhill when it went colour ...

[choux]

That's progress for you ;)

[Ellipsis]

> https://twitter.com/LallyLangford/status/1634279868606173194?s=20

LOL, good question ...

[maggiebee]

Not a fan of either football or GL but 100,000 have signed the petition in just 12 hours to have him reinstated. The BBC must stand up to political interference.

https://38d.gs/BringBackGaryFB

[choux]

Gary Lineker's son, Harry, has just told reporters at their home that his dad has gone to watch the Leicester match, and will be gone for most of the day.

Will it be that the last 5 words are unnecessary?

[gness]

Ellipsis and Corby. Excellent speech and question. Thank you.

[Hopkirk]

I haven't met anyone who supports Mr Lineker.

[gness]

Really, Hoppy? You're not still stuck alone in that dungeon are you? ;-)

[Prudie]

He came up in a chat with friends yesterday, I'd put it at 50-50.

[choux]

He has more chance than another ex-Leicester player who joined the BBC until he went too far and was shown the door. Not surprising though. I am talking about David Icke, not that he was politically motivated...

[fitdarren]

The Government really can't win can it? It knows something simply has to be done to stop migrants (illegal or otherwise) from flooding into our country - we really, really do have enough now and just cannot keep sustaining them and yet Lineker opens his big gob and some people defend him - why??? He is arrogant in the extreme and I hope he is sacked, but the way things seem to be going, I'm not sure he will be.

[nicebloke1]

A lot of this is nothing to do with what GL said, or didn't say. Its about many people having a problem with his earnings, and that@s been the case for sometime. So for those people, they see it to be a great chance to hack him down. Funny how those same people don't have a problem with Boris getting millions for being a down right liar and cheat, and putting this country into the pits.