[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".

 

[The Clamp]

I'm not that bothered about old jug ears spouting off on twitter but I'm pretty sure if he was expressing any political opinions supporting the current government/brexit/right of centre views many of his supporters on here and across social media would soon melt away, some might even call for him to go ...

Shall we deal with reality? What has actually occurred and not more whataboutery?

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Ian Wright stepping back in solidarity

The BBC will be fecked if others take the same line.

Top man Wrighty

Fiona Bruce presenting, with Nigel Farage and Peter Shilton on punditry.

 

[Acker79]

 

[Titanic]

The BBC said it considered Lineker's "recent social media activity to be a breach of our guidelines".

It added he should "keep well away from taking sides on party political issues or political controversies".

"We have never said that Gary should be an opinion free zone, or that he can't have a view on issues that matter to him, but we have said that he should keep well away from taking sides on party political issues or political controversies."

 

[Thunder Bolt]

So, the BBC Chairman can donate to the Tories, advise Sunak and arrange loans for Boris Johnson but Gary Lineker can't call out a policy that breaks international law for what it is.

He then gets censored by his employer, now doubt acting under pressure, a bit like, er 1930s Germany.

He wasn't even calling out the policy but the rhetoric around the policy. The phrase illegal immigrants being used in mainstream media, and news broadcasts, when asylum seekers are not illegal. That's one of the milder expressions. Hopkins called them cockroaches.
It is all dehumanising them.

Now with this new bill, ironically, trying to make them illegal, will condone imprisonment without trial. That's a very short step to prison camps.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The BBC said it considered Lineker's "recent social media activity to be a breach of our guidelines".

It added he should "keep well away from taking sides on party political issues or political controversies".

Lord Sugar, David Attenborough, Fiona Bruce etc etc?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Great display of solidarity by Wrighty

Hopefully every other presenter with any modicum of credibility and dignity will follow suit.

Looking forward to boycotting MOTD presented by empty smiley heads. Alex Scott, Rylan and Mrs Fat Frank anyone?

 

[Wokeworrier]

Shall we deal with reality? What has actually occurred and not more whataboutery?

It would be hypocrisy not whataboutery Mr Clamp. If Lineker was praising government policy I can think of at least one person on NSC being outraged ...

 

[pocketseagull]

 

[The Clamp]

I very much admire him for his refusal to apologise. A man of principle.

 

[The Clamp]

It would be hypocrisy not whataboutery Mr Clamp. If Lineker was praising government policy I can think of at least one person on NSC being outraged ...

I’m taking about your what aboutery.

And don’t judge us all buy your own low standards. If he or any BBC bod put praise on their own Twitter account, I would not like it but I’d support their right to do so.

If they said it on a BBC program, then I’d have an issue.

So you see, you’re quite wrong.

 

[ManOfSussex]

Fair play to Wrighty. I hope they all refuse to do MOTD tomorrow now and it gets pulled.

 

[Swansman]

Fair play to Wrighty. I hope they all refuse to do MOTD tomorrow now and it gets pulled.

People should also boycott the shit out of it if they indeed show it

 

[Titanic]

Fair play to Wrighty. I hope they all refuse to do MOTD tomorrow now...

That would be a RESULT. More football, fewer opinions and banter.

 

[BBassic]

It would be hypocrisy not whataboutery Mr Clamp. If Lineker was praising government policy I can think of at least one person on NSC being outraged ...

Yeah probably.

I don't think anyone would be calling for his platform to be taken away

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Fair play to Wrighty. I hope they all refuse to do MOTD tomorrow now and it gets pulled.

TYPICAL BBC. We will win and they will go one step further than their usual putting us last and PULL the whole programme instead.

ABSOLUTE BIAS

 

[Greg Bobkin]

I guess the panel of HIGNFY will be next? Or the programme as a whole?

 

[herecomesaregular]

Not bothered if Line-acre wants to use twitter to express any of his opinions. Am bothered by the huge salary, paid by license holders, wasted on him, Shearer and even Wright (who has become tres annoying re Arsenal). If this is a situation manufactured by BBC bosses to move them on and replace them with better presenters on cheaper salaries then... I'm fine with it.

Also re BBC and so-called non bias. Why are Lineker, Shearer and Wright allowed to spend so much time talking about Leicester, Newcastle and Arsenal. It's so f-ing boring.

 

[Hamilton]

He wasn't even calling out the policy but the rhetoric around the policy. The phrase illegal immigrants being used in mainstream media, and news broadcasts, when asylum seekers are not illegal. That's one of the milder expressions. Hopkins called them cockroaches.
It is all dehumanising them.

Now with this new bill, ironically, trying to make them illegal, will condone imprisonment without trial. That's a very short step to prison camps.

And at 1.10 we have language that sounds very much like inflammatory right wing rhetoric.

 

[allystrat]

I very much admire him for his refusal to apologise. A man of principle.

The man who worked for Al Jazeera Sports