[Football] Gary Lineker to step back from presenting MOTD

[Titanic]

Gary Lineker to step back from presenting MOTD

Gary Lineker to step back from presenting Match of the Day until agreement reached on social media use - BBC statement

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Gary Lineker is to step back from presenting Match of the Day until an agreement is reached on his social media use - BBC statement.
It follows an impartiality row over comments he made criticising the government's new asylum policy.
In a tweet, the presenter had compared the language used by the government to set out its plan to "that used by Germany in the 30s".

 

[Is it PotG?]

Does it?

The BBC's World Cup coverage began with a Lineker monologue in which he spoke of the numerous human rights violations in Qatar - and he did so with the BBC's blessing.

Yet he still did it.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Anybody any good at presenting a football programme. Think there might be an opening tomorrow night

Nah …we dont need anyone …quite looking forward to it…it will be novel…..thats IF it goes ahead

 

[Wozza]

Anybody any good at presenting a football programme. Think there might be an opening tomorrow night

Not if the production crew strike...

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The BBC like the NHS is worth defending, it defines us and is respected globally. Even envieded. I don’t always like its output but I recognise it’s importance far beyond the relative pittance we all pay for it or my own personal views, needs and wants.

Which is why those of us who used to trust the BBC for impartiality are shouting the loudest.
I caught them out in a report from Calais in 2015, as I had been in Calais just three hours earlier. I emailed them to complain but was fobbed off.

The Tories have their own chairman in situ, and Gibb who was Comms for May, so they dictate policy at the Beeb.

 

[BadFish]

This is f***ing terrifying IMHO

Is this really where the UK is at?

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Is the BBC Director General impartial when arranging the prime minister a loan?

I’m very pro BBC but this stinks.

The BBC is great, but it needs to sort itself out.

What ever your view on lockdown, we had 2 years of zero questioning from the BBC

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Only for cancel culture snowflakes.

Ffs you really believe this.

 

[ROBS BROTHER]

And how do you suggest they apply legally

 

[Randy McNob]

Lineker is always about Lineker, nothing else.

He’s obviously a staunch supporter of human rights, after all he did boycott presenting the World Cup.......

Oh.

No, he's consistent. In both cases he has not let his personal opinions conflict with his professional duty

 

[LamieRobertson]

Not if the production crew strike...

Not just them….commentators i think will be the next to kick back.

 

[ROBS BROTHER]

Just try google

 

[Wozza]

Yet he still did it.

It's his job. He made his opinions clear on Qatar - not just on Twitter but literally ON THE BBC.

Now the BBC is deciding he can't express an opinion on Twitter. Laughable.

The BBC are looking like absolute fools.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Its not what I read on the government's website

Happy to help

 

[Weststander]

you missed the chap with the petrol bomb then. there's lots of low level violence against minorities, if it doesn't affect you, i spose you won't see it

The knuckle dragger in Merseyside, now on remand, police did a good job.

Widening the discussion, the heat out of all this (and we would not have left the EU) would’ve been dealt with, if new homes had been built to meet the 10m population increase from 1997 to 2023, 300k of which is annual net migration … even now. Shelter say we need 3m new homes, now.

This creates tensions.

Easy to come across hypocrisy, folk who want no check to migration, yet argue against the mass house building programme needed.

 

[BadFish]

People keep talking about refugees. What are they fleeing from? France? I understand that you might not be francophile but really the people in question could have secured asylum in any of the many countries they passed through. I also understand that they would prefer Britain to the EU
Fine just apply legally and don't try illegal entry

You need to do a touch more research into the situation my friend.

 

[Springal]

 

[lawros left foot]

Dion Dublin has said he’ll present MOTD, but, he wants to knock down 2 walls and make an en suite bathroom.

 

[Is it PotG?]

It's his job. He made his opinions clear on Qatar - not just on Twitter but literally ON THE BBC.

Now the BBC is deciding he can't express an opinion on Twitter. Laughable.

The BBC are looking like absolute fools.

Made his opinions clear, and gave his money to the victims families?

Sanctimonious and hollow claptrap.

 

[BadFish]

Not if the production crew strike...

Everyone who believes in free speech should strike, including the viewers.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The knuckle dragger in Merseyside, now on remand, police did a good job.

Widening the discussion, the heat out of all this (and we would not have left the EU) would’ve been dealt with, if new homes had been built to meet the 10m population increase from 1997 to 2023, 300k of which is annual net migration … even now. Shelter say we need 3m new homes, now.

This creates tensions.

Easy to come across hypocrisy, folk who want no check to migration, yet argue against the mass house building programme needed.

Utilising the 600,000 empty homes would help.

There’s more land used up by golf courses in this country than housing.