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  1. Seagull27

    [Football] Gary Lineker to step back from presenting MOTD

    Hate to break it to you, but Murray was one of the pundits who dropped out of a BBC show over the weekend in support of Lineker.
  2. Seagull27

    [Football] Gary Lineker to step back from presenting MOTD

    But the point is, no-one is saying that the government are Nazis, nor that they are doing things that the Nazis did. They are saying that the language used in 1930s was to demonise and dehumanise, to make the population nervous of these groups and angry with them. It's a similar propaganda that...
  3. Seagull27

    [Football] Gary Lineker to step back from presenting MOTD

    For about the 15th time, he didn't say the situation was like Nazi Germany. He said that the  language was similar to that used during the rise of the Nazis in Germany.
  4. Seagull27

    [Football] Gary Lineker to step back from presenting MOTD

    The subject is completely unrelated to his job though. He should be impartial when it comes to sporting matters, e.g. he shouldn't take sides on whether VAR should be removed, or on whether a club should be penalised for FFP rule breaking. But government policy is nothing to do with his job...
  5. Seagull27

    [Football] Gary Lineker to step back from presenting MOTD

    He wasn't paid for political commentary. Posting on his personal Twitter account is something he does in his personal time, outside of work.
  6. Seagull27

    [Football] Gary Lineker to step back from presenting MOTD

    You do realise you could get the same experience every week by going to your sports website of choice and watching the highlights of each game, one after the other? You could even choose to watch the Brighton game first every week, and you wouldn't have to wait until 10.20pm. It's bizarre that...
  7. Seagull27

    [Football] Gary Lineker to step back from presenting MOTD

    As has been pointed out many times in this thread - what is a bigger threat to the BBC's impartiality? A sports presenter making a few comments on his personal Twitter account? Or the current BBC chairman being a donor to one of the two major parties and facilitating a huge loan for a recent...

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