Lineker steps down from MOTD

https://twitter.com/JamesHawker9/status/1634273901600559111?s=20

who gives a £#%&! what he does in his spare time? if he wants to look a @#%&!, let him, the slimy jelly.

the idea that bbc impartiality should go beyond news and current affairs is farcical anyway, but he wasn't even on the beeb.

cancel motd. we're playing sunday.

Alan Hansen right now .......

Originally Posted by Finport Red

...Not a big fan of lineker, but this is ridiculous

Originally Posted by Mr_Ed

Morgan makes a valid point for once…

https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/stat...n2KM8_MGvd9NWg

£800k appearance fee for any Vichy presenters, perhaps?

Jimmy Hill right now…

Brian Woolnough right now...

Richard Keys right now…

Is Sol Cambell busy?

Britain 2023

maybe they just show the games and realise they've discovered penicillin.

Originally Posted by Ethers

https://twitter.com/MicahRichards/st...099167745?s=20

Well done pal.

I’m not scheduled to be on either, but grrrrrrr i wouldn’t!


(Seriously though, good for all of them. Wish more would do it. Imagine BBC thought they’d suspend him with little fuss. Nice to see a reaction. They’re £#%&!ed now because no bugger is going to want to touch it)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpnxY8-Ix9M/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

https://twitter.com/guardian_sport/status/1634303487151419392?s=20

What a mad country we live in, led by squaking £#%&!ing #@&%!s.

https://twitter.com/Boxing_UK_/status/1634301836692791298?s=20

Lineker is a £#%&!er anyway, snide comments about United.

I’m going against the grain here. He knows the rules. He is paid an extraordinary amount of money. Impartiality works both ways. He needs to decide if he wants to be a sports presenter or a politician.

Originally Posted by avocado

I’m going against the grain here. He knows the rules. He is paid an extraordinary amount of money. Impartiality works both ways. He needs to decide if he wants to be a sports presenter or a politician.

No he doesn't. He can say what he likes as a private individual, so long as it is legal, which this was and what's more it was also completely true. This is just another attempt by an increasingly desperate tory party to shut down public dissent of their shit House policies.

Commentators now figuring out if its possible to boycott

State of the tory @#%&!s running the BBC.

Originally Posted by red red robbo

No he doesn't. He can say what he likes as a private individual, so long as it is legal, which this was and what's more it was also completely true. This is just another attempt by an increasingly desperate tory party to shut down public dissent of their shit House policies.

In which case he has to accept that if he breaks his employers’ rules (and please don’t start an argument based on employee status) then his employer no longer has to employ him. Pretty much your argument about Churches being compelled to marry anyone that wants to be married …

Originally Posted by avocado

I’m going against the grain here. He knows the rules. He is paid an extraordinary amount of money. Impartiality works both ways. He needs to decide if he wants to be a sports presenter or a politician.

How was he being impartial?

He was just making a comment on something, and he was entirely factually correct in what he said as well.