Gary Lineker steps down from MOTD

[East Langton Fox]

As he is one of us, I’m interested to know what people think about him being told he can’t present MOTD until he rows the BBC line. 
Personally I think it’s a a mistake. Alan Sugar has had plenty to say as a Labour supporter. Andrew Neill, esteemed political presenter on the BBC is editor of the spectator which is not  politically neutral.

Double standards. Poor decision from the BBC

[KrefelderFox666]

Will happily boycott MOTD

[davieG]

Anything that shuts him up to me he's just become a know it all smug boring irritant. He's certainly not worth the £1.5m salary.

 

No longer watch MOD. anyway

[Free Falling Foxes]

1 minute ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

Will happily boycott MOTD

I've been boycotting it most of this season tbf.

Edited 10 March 2023 by Free Falling Foxes

[South Shire Fox]

Him and Shearer make MOTD imo, not watched alot this season for obvious reasons but will be a big miss. Massive drop in quality to Mark Chapman and Jenas

[Harry the Cat]

I wonder if he’d spoken out in favour of government policy nothing would have been said. 

[Unabomber]

He’s a great presenter regardless of his affinity with Leicester.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

Crazy that's the cost of being a moral person, but that's Britain these days.

 

Probably still watch. I like seeing the highlights, and it's not like I have a BARB box,

[foxinsocks]

The beeb dont seem to have clear rules for non current affairs staff or for freelancers. They pay him alot yet presumably forgot to put anythig in his contract.

Now the daiky mail and telegraph is on the bbcs case....

In this case... while many dont agree with the govs new scheme... garys suggesting that it reminded him of 1930 germany seem a bit extreme.

I guess the beeb want to try and hammer out a face saving commitment.

Yet Ian wright has said he will not apoear while gary is suspended... so who will scab?  Shearer?

 

[foxinsocks]

4 minutes ago, South Shire Fox said:

Him and Shearer make MOTD imo, not watched alot this season for obvious reasons but will be a big miss. Massive drop in quality to Mark Chapman and Jenas

Shearer is bobbins

[Sharpe's Fox]

I don't watch it but if I did I wouldn't watch it because he was presenting it. To be honest I'd be more likely to tune in if it was just rolling highlights without the dad jokes and so-called "analysis". Bin the lot of them.

[foxes_rule1978]

5 minutes ago, Harry the Cat said:

I wonder if he’d spoken out in favour of government policy nothing would have been said. 

Unlikely, but what he said was a bit ridiculous still. Anyway I liked him on MotD so disappointed he has stepped down 

[jonathan_ross]

Best thing the club ever did was take his name off the north stand, embarrassment to Leicester.

[Unabomber]

1 minute ago, jonathan_ross said:

Best thing the club ever did was take his name off the north stand, embarrassment to Leicester.

What makes you say that?

[LCFCJoe96]

2 minutes ago, jonathan_ross said:

Best thing the club ever did was take his name off the north stand, embarrassment to Leicester.

What a ****ing bizarre take

[purpleronnie]

3 minutes ago, jonathan_ross said:

Best thing the club ever did was take his name off the north stand, embarrassment to Leicester.

Best thing?

[Mike the Metal Ed]

Shearer and Wright have told the BBC they also won't be appearing on the show. Like them or not, that's really sending a message.

[purpleronnie]

Just now, Mike the Metal Ed said:

Shearer and Wright have told the BBC they also won't be appearing on the show. Like them or not, that's really sending a message.

[Diffco]

3 minutes ago, jonathan_ross said:

Best thing the club ever did was take his name off the north stand, embarrassment to Leicester.

He's quite obviously the exact opposite of that. He's a total credit to Leicester, up there with David Attenborough 

[Sharpe's Fox]

By the way no one cared about Gary's commitment to BBC impartiality when he literally tweeted "Bin Corbyn" in 2017. It's as if when there was a politician who actually cared about refugees he was fair game because he threatened Gary's big houses and tax dodging. Man's a virtue signalling clown.

 

 

Edited 10 March 2023 by Sharpe's Fox

[Finnegan]

I find it pretty outrageous. At the risk of stepping too far in to politics, it shouldn't be controversial to call Suella Braverman a fascist. 

 

The BBC doesn't conform to total impartiality, its a myth. It subscribes to due impartiality, if something is just a fact then they don't have to pretend there's two sides to the story. They didn't, for example, have to pretend that COVID wasn't real or that the vaccine was a lie because that's just nonsense. 

 

Braverman IS a fascist. That's not an insult or a slur, it's an actual description of where her politics sit on the political spectrum. If that is shocking to people, it should be. She's a really scary example of how quickly the right of the Tory party has jerked to the FAR right. 

 

No moderate Conservative likes her or her positions, they are genuinely hateful. 

 

You might think Lineker is a preachy lefty and you might not like his politics, whatever that's fine. But this is one instance in which he's done nothing wrong. 

 

Oh and let's not forget this is against the backdrop of the Chair of the BBC being in bed with Boris Johnson and the political editor of the BBC being also quite an entrenched, right wing voice. Super impartial. 

 

Edited 10 March 2023 by Finnegan

[RowlattsFox]

You'd have to be desperate to go on MOTD tomorrow now. Not worth the backlash. 

[Tommy Fresh]

18 minutes ago, East Langton Fox said:

Alan Sugar has had plenty to say as a Labour supporter.

Eh?

[Unabomber]

2 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:

Best thing?

Yeah weird one that. Would say appointing Pearson over removing his name but each to their own  

[Diffco]

Just now, RowlattsFox said:

You'd have to be desperate to go on MOTD tomorrow now. Not worth the backlash. 

You just know Jenas will do it