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Most people - including many who support Lineker - would accept that it was a clumsy comparison. It doesn’t make the basis of his comments any less valid. and for anyone with a knowledge of 20th Century European history, there are striking similarities between what Conservative governments have...

Is he “using his platform and reach afforded by football”? or is it just that he is tweeting as an individual in a way that he might even if he was not well known - plenty of ordinary people tweet opinions every day - and more people take notice because of who he is…… subtle difference.

Yes, one really gets fed up with MOTD being the Saturday version of Newsnight - discussing the merits and demerits of the Windsor Framework rather than the niceties of De Zerbi’s game plan. or alternatively, can you name an instance when he didn’t leave politics at the door for MOTD? All his...

The DG has said in an interview reported yesterday he intends to review the social media guidelines for non-political presenters at the BBC, and that Lineker is the best there is. Reading between the lines, staff at the BBC seem to be gunning for the chair! ….. rebelling against the Tory war...

If people actually read his original tweet, the text of which is: “There is no huge influx. We take far fewer refugees than other major European countries. This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany...