[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

www.bbc.co.uk

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".

 

[herecomesaregular]

Have to say I'm changing my mind a bit on Lineker, purely because it's good that he has stirred up this shit storm.

As for Shearer boycotting MOTD - I find that hard to take, him "making a stand" on this issue.... after all the bullshit he has spoken about the Saudi cnuts at Newcastle.

 

[Weststander]

Problem is they have in the past but it hasn't been commented on in parliament.

Alan Sugar and particularly Andrew Neil were given free reign on social media.

If you don't apply your guidelines consistently, you are open to criticism when you apply them.. or not.

What a mess.

I recall in the 80’s the likes of Kenny Everitt, Monkhouse (ITV?) and some from the left at it.

Personally I also found it boring, plus I despised their attempts at influencing us through their celebrity patronising and irritating (who are they to ….).

Definitely needs clearing up, one way or another.

Not an anti-Lineker thing, but the tax status of their pay arrangements with the BBC is an irrelevance, they still have an influence and kudos simply from being on screen. The public wouldn’t know whether Munchetty, Lineker et al are ‘freelancers’ or not.

 

[LamieRobertson]

MOTD without any pundits…..i can see an upside..yeah!

Next it will be the commentators…..then the production team ….and so it‘ll go on.

Who will be doing our game next Sunday!

 

[rogersix]

What makes you say that?

Yes and murdered.
https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/germany-1933-democracy-dictatorship/

how did the national socialists incite the necessary hatred in the poplace?

 

[Randy McNob]

Ian Wright ... Class

 

[portlock seagull]

He is backing Gary and what Gary said. He is a Holocaust survivor.

Jean Salt is also a Holocaust survivor, and said exactly the same thing to Suella Braverman.

Watch in full as Braverman tells Holocaust survivor she won’t apologise for rhetoric

Home Office asked charity Freedom From Torture to take down edited video show Home Secretary’s response

www.independent.co.uk

I see. Well. Emotions can run high, but he’s not right either. You cannot equate Tory Party with the Nazi’s by any creditable stretch of the imagination. Two wrongs don’t make a right and all that.

 

[Weststander]

Have to say I'm changing my mind a bit on Lineker, purely because it's good that he has stirred up this shit storm.

As for Shearer boycotting MOTD - I find that hard to take, him "making a stand" on this issue.... after all the bullshit he has spoken about the Saudi cnuts at Newcastle.

His attitude when challenged about the Saudis seemed to be:
1. Why pick on NUFC and the Saudis? followed by an arrogant.
2. It’s our destiny, our time, we’re massive, WE DESERVE THE MONEY AND TROPHIES.

 

[Pevenseagull]

So, once again, Alan Sugar, David Attenborough , Laura Kuennsberg, Fiona Bruce, and Andrew Neil are all free to say what they like, but a popular football presenter isn’t?

Erm

No sixth episode for Sir David Attenborough’s Wild Isles, BBC says

 

[Hugo Rune]

Did he 'technically' have a contract of employment with Auntie Beeb?

Of course he doesn’t ’technically’. His company will have the contract.

 

[Acker79]

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I am assuming these are the guidelines that are being referred to.

Guidelines

The Editorial Guidelines are the BBC's values and standards. They apply to all our content, wherever and however it is received.

www.bbc.com

This says:
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What Lineker has done is release his own content/opinion, it's not the BBC's.

Exactly. It was his personal Twitter account, not MOTD Twitter account.
He hasn’t said anything on his programme even when politicians were criticising the England team for taking the knee.

 

[rogersix]

Blimey, the drama on here and folks falling on their swords.
Multi-millionaire Lineacre heads off to his other jobs and ads rubbing his hands together at the publicity

how do you think this will be concluded?

 

[willalbion]

on another note, I’m absolutely LOVING the tumbleweeds that are greeting a select few posters on this thread.

 

[rogersix]

His moral stance is commendable but his comparison with nazi germany is ludicrous & no doubt very offensive to some people.

you've misunderstood the tweet

 

[portlock seagull]

Wrong again!

Again? So Lineker has been pulled, what was my other mistake?

 

[TomandJerry]

The BBC appears to have compromised.

That's why I read The Guardian as my main source of news

 

[Is it PotG?]

how do you think this will be concluded?

New presenter on MotD, Lineacre carries on with BT et al
You?

Still, I can't wait for his book.

 

[rogersix]

Nah. Won’t be going into details. My opinion is formed through personal experience though. And trust me, I’m not the only one.

hmmmmmm, bit sus

 

[St Leonards Seagull]

 

[LamieRobertson]

He didn't technically.

Lol..he referred to Germany (a nazi state) in the 30’s …as good as i would have thought? But i can see what you mean by technically