[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".

 

[Lever]

This expresses the situation better than I could.....

 

[dolphins]

Fiona Bruce stepping down from Refuge charity work too.

That's great news and so she should.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Fiona Bruce stepping down from Refuge charity work too.

Good. There were loads of complaints about her trivialising domestic violence as a one off.

 

[aolstudios]

Fiona Bruce stepping down from Refuge charity work too.

I should bloody think so.
Should be instantly off question time too

 

[aolstudios]

Good. There were loads of complaints about her trivialising domestic violence as a one off.

Especially as the DV was regular, according to many sources & never denied

 

[Jim in the West]

Very pleased to hear it, the Tories are frothing at the mouth over it bunch of snow flakes

Mail Online headline

Fury at BBC for humiliating climbdown as Gary Lineker wins Twitter row: Tim Davie apologises and invites the host back to Match of the Day - and presenter celebrates with yet another tweet about migrant crisis​

 

[Deadly Danson]

Mail Online headline

Fury at BBC for humiliating climbdown as Gary Lineker wins Twitter row: Tim Davie apologises and invites the host back to Match of the Day - and presenter celebrates with yet another tweet about migrant crisis​

Ha ha. The Mail really does represent the very worst of us. Imagine having that mindset. Makes me shiver to think they walk amongst us.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

The 2 things that have just made me sigh the most during this whole thing

1 - the WEIRD obsession some people have about the holy licence fee. "I don't pay my licence fee to......blah blah blah". Oh just SHUT UP. It's like £15 a month and there WILL SOMETIMES be stuff on the BBC, over ALL the channels, ALL the websites, ALL the radio stations that you JUST might not love. You know what? Don't watch/listen to that bit. I don't really like Mrs Brown's Boys. I'm not kicking off about it. It probably costs me less than 1p per year when you consider all the thousands of hours off bbc content out there. I don't complain to Netflix because 90% of their content isn't to my liking despite me paying for it. I watch the bits I like.

2 - People who think they are being edgey by saying "You know what? I actually preferred MOTD without the commentators or the over-paid pundits". Of course you did Steve.

 

[jcdenton08]

The 2 things that have just made me sigh the most during this whole thing

1 - the WEIRD obsession some people have about the holy licence fee. "I don't pay my licence fee to......blah blah blah". Oh just SHUT UP. It's like £15 a month and there WILL SOMETIMES be stuff on the BBC, over ALL the channels, ALL the websites, ALL the radio stations that you JUST might not love. You know what? Don't watch/listen to that bit. I don't really like Mrs Brown's Boys. I'm not kicking off about it. It probably costs me less than 1p per year when you consider all the thousands of hours off bbc content out there. I don't complain to Netflix because 90% of their content isn't to my liking despite me paying for it. I watch the bits I like.

2 - People who think they are being edgey by saying "You know what? I actually preferred MOTD without the commentators or the over-paid pundits". Of course you did Steve.

On point two, what if they actually did?

 

[Lever]

Mail Online headline

Fury at BBC for humiliating climbdown as Gary Lineker wins Twitter row: Tim Davie apologises and invites the host back to Match of the Day - and presenter celebrates with yet another tweet about migrant crisis​

Do you think there will be 'fury' from the NSC tory extremists who claimed there was no such apology?

 

[Wozza]

On point two, what if they actually did?

They've been informed that the same goals service is freely available on YouTube - around three hours earlier too.

 

[jcdenton08]

They've been informed that the same goals service is freely available on YouTube - around three hours earlier too.

Why would that stop them from enjoying MOTD without punditry?

 

[Lever]

Why would that stop them from enjoying MOTD without punditry?

why not just watch without sound and make a cup of tea or something during analysis?

 

[GT49er]

Okay, now that fuss is settled, can we concentrate on the actual policy? Is it:

a) A dangerously callous and overly simplistic approach to a very complex problem. Seems to be against international law, but even if not, diminishes our country's moral standing in the international community. - Presented after a persistent period of othering and dishonest language deliberately designed to use the desperation of one group of needy people to play upon the fears of another, offering an invented scapegoat to those not being helped, similar in rhetoric to that used by right wing politicans in Germany during the economic depression of 1930s Germany; or

b) A dangerously callous and overly simplistic approach to a very complex problem. Seems to be against international law, but even if not, diminishes our country's moral standing in the international community. - Presented after a persistent period of othering and dishonest language deliberately designed to use the desperation of one group of needy people to play upon the fears of another, offering an invented scapegoat to those not being helped, but a totally new way of distracting the disadvantaged from the real causes of economic depression, that has absolutely no parallels with anything that occurred before or during the darkest period in modern European history?

As I understand the media coverage, (a) would be completely unacceptable and causes great offence to the proposers of the policy, but (b) is not at all problematic?

Pretty much, yep - well, ideally basically option b). without any need to mention Nazis at all (and yes, we all know he didn't use the word 'Nazi' - but equally we all know that 'Germany in the 1930s' wasn't referencing the price of fish).

 

[jcdenton08]

why not just watch without sound and make a cup of tea or something during analysis?

Why? Isn’t it just possible that people did actually enjoy MOTD without pundits?

 

[vegster]

I've never once felt 'proud' to be British - hell, it was an accident of birth, so there was no pride to be had. I DID count myself lucky, to have been born into what (was) a tolerant and caring country.
Now? Not so much at all, and I have no idea as to how it all went pear-shaped.
No, I was never 'proud', but I sure as hell feel embarrassed, by what we are becoming.
Shameful.

As a youngsters I used to feel proud to be British... I sat in Geography looking up at a map coloured 25% pink to show the British Empire that we had colonised and " civilised "....over the years the scales have fallen from my eyes and we now have little to feel proud of. Society is broken and I can't see it being fixed in what remains of my lifetime.

This weekend has shown again what really matters to this government, more aid to Ukraine and a frantic scramble to prop another bank up but, no urgency to pay the NHS staff decent wage and no scramble to get every child that needs one, a school dinner.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Why? Isn’t it just possible that people did actually enjoy MOTD without pundits?

Possible, but given nobody who supports Lineker's side, and is against the small boats policy, said this, and plenty of people who are for the government policy, and who've shown no interest in football for their entire lives did come out and say it ..... i reckon they are just saying what they think their side in the culture war demands them to say rather than what they actually think.

 

[jcdenton08]

Possible, but given nobody who supports Lineker's side, and is against the small boats policy, said this, and plenty of people who are for the government policy, and who've shown no interest in football for their entire lives did come out and say it ..... i reckon they are just saying what they think their side in the culture war demands them to say rather than what they actually think.

It’s possible. But I don’t support the government and I didn’t miss having pundits, and I watch MOTD every week. I’m not saying it to be “edgy”. It’s my opinion on my enjoyment of the show. Not everything is some political mind game in life.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Ha ha. The Mail really does represent the very worst of us. Imagine having that mindset. Makes me shiver to think they walk amongst us.

Walk among us .. .and are in government and are determining what our lives look like

 

[Wozza]

Why would that stop them from enjoying MOTD without punditry?

Easy to timeshift. Start watching 15min late, skip the chat. Or watch the next morning etc.

Between the BBC, Sky, YouTube and the official site, there's a wide gamut of options.