The BBC’s Football Focus programme will not air today, after presenter Alex Scott and pundits pulled out in support of Gary Lineker
Alex Scott tweeted that "it doesn't feel right for me to go ahead with the show" but that she hopes to be back next week The number of football stars, pundits and commentators boycotting the BBC's main football programme, Match of the Day, is growing
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Gary cherry picks his anti nazi stance. Which makes him a nazi.
GaryLineker I stand by your comments, as do many other people. The media lambasted that elderly holocaust survivor who said exactly what you have said during a speech which, I think was given by SuellaBraverman
Good sack him once and for all
Would Gary Linaker's tweet have caused so much bother if had been in support of the government? I suspect not. As I understand he has been suspended for tweeting an opinion outside of his scope as a sports commentator, so the same sanction should apply.
Should be sacked if he doesn’t remove them tweets SackGaryLineker
How outrageous from the BBC management to suspend & do such a fuss of Gary Linkers comments! Why doesn't managem.instead concentrate in free speech, investigate journalism, like their close links to gov? If something had been said about other parties nothing would have happened
Pop this on instead of MOTD much mere entertaining than Lineker and his gang
It's not a tweet row as that places emphasis on Twitter rather than focuses on the actual issue at hand. We mustn't shoot the messenger for the details of the message and its message-sender.
Whether you agree with someone’s opinion or not freedom of speech is still a right of every citizen in this country. Thus he has the right to express his thoughts off air. The BBC are being hypocritical stating he breached impartiality rules, since they are themselves pro tory.
Why can't the BBC - PROMOTE ITS YOUNGER REPORTERS/PUNDITS It shows they have NO SUCCESSION!!!
Btw he didn’t break any editorial guidelines because there were none about tweeting!
Shame on you for being biased and being a Tory mouthpiece!
It's fine. Do a Clarkson. Start an MOTD clone on Prime or Netflix. Further damage the BBC to eradicate the license, move to subscription. Job is a guddun.
Maybe it’s time for Richard Keys and Andy Gray to make a comeback.
The BBC are a complete joke. Robbing us all. I’m not sure you can be forgiven for this. ChrisMoyles, JeremyClarkson and now GaryLineker. KillTheLicenceFee
I wouldn’t care if Lineker never worked for the BBC again. He’s just another rich luvvy, full of his own self importance, who thinks he is above the law. It’s not the BBC or Tories being punished, it’s the millions of ordinary football supporters. I hope he is very happy.
Double standards as usual,so it's ok for Chris packham to post his bull views is it? Doesn't he present on BBC?
John Motson would turn in his grave about the way Lineker has behaved. Sack him, plenty do a better job for a fraction of the obscene money he’s paid😡
Lineker and his motley crew of faux outrage celebrities and sports pundits are HYPOCRITES!!!
Morals of a sewer rat
GaryLineker RishiSunak SuellaBraverman They vilify the man who speaks for morality yet say nothing against the woman who speaks regularly for hate and division.
But he used the word Nazis !!!!!!!
Don’t the rest of BBC employees have the gut to support Gary Lineker, under the name of justice? Brits are so weird and coward!!!
BBC Tory control…. in under 90 seconds
Don’t you just love it when the BBC put out a story about themselves like it’s trustworthy because they’re the BBC, and it’s at the top of the news! Reminiscent of North Korean broadcasting IMHO of course!
The BBC sold its soul to the devil and that is the Tory government!
The biased broadcasting clowns are taking direction from the clowns in Westminster Hang in there folks Normal service will resume after the next general election
Sack them all if they can't come into work for no valid reason then get rid
What utter shite. You've been shown up for what you are, a tory propaganda unit, and now you're trying to backtrack. Utterly pathetic.
But if he was a guest on Andrew Marr's show or Question Time, saying this to MP's faces. Nobody at the BBC would be raising a storm in a teacup! He didn't tweet while presenting a BBC show, so as a citizen with voting rights, he's free to express his views on his own platform!
SackTimDavie
No mention of the fact the BBC boss’ position is CLEARLY untenable and the most likely outcome early next week is his resignation
Wel that was an impartial 90 second review 🤦♂️
This is what happens when you eat nothing but potato chips, morning, noon and night.
And if he’d quote tweeted her and said “couldn’t agree more! Send them packing!” He’d have been off MOTD for that too, right?
Lineker is overpaid, time for someone new.
You people are loosing credibility everyday by disseminating false narratives…. In India nobody pays a heed on your bluff…
BBC reinstate in my let's get Match of the Day back to normal just because the Tories don't like people speaking out against them BBC arriving doing this to him I don't necessarily agree with what he said totally but he should have the right to have some free speech
No company should ever be able to muscle their employees into surrendering their freedom of expression.
BBCWorld BBCBreaking TVMohandasPai BBCIndia Hey BBC, can you share your policy on Journalistic Freedom; both versions please - British and Rest of the World.
Nice impartial heading of ‘Gary Linekar’s tweet row’. How about ‘RW Tories’ row over tweet penned by GL that spoke truth to power & BBC Gov’t stooge Davie capitulated’. Not as snappy, I admit. And equally impartial. But more representative of the situation: ImWithGary
A famous Tory by the name of Churchill once said 'A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure'. These days “men” would be replaced by “people” but you get the point. WeStandWithGary
Almost as long as MOTD 🤣
Bigger than the bbc it seems
It’s a difficult situation. Must balance freedom of speech while holding people paid by TV license payers to a responsible standard. So the middle ground for me is that Gary should be free to speak his mind, but comparing the UK to Nazi Germany was not a responsible or comment
the reason is because the bbc is lying right wing scum.
Watch Sky’s coverage &spot the differences. This “journalist” presents mostly outraged Tories - which merely clarifies this is political bias. He then draws a different conclusion to everyone else & fails to mention the possibility of Sharp and Davie being pushed out. Pathetic.
You've become a joke on a international scale. Trying to defend a government full of liars, charlatans, abhorrent policies and basically massive cunts. Shameful.
Tories and Tory BBC made his tweet a big deal and because Tory MPs thought they were so smart scapegoating Lineker for highlighting cruel bill they wanted to make an example of him. Tory BBC obliged by removing Lineker thus colluding with it's Tory owners! BBC not impartial!
Gary who?
How exactly is it a “row”? You’ve tried to silence him because the tories had a tantrum. That’s not a “row”. That’s censorship.
He is right! Only a fkn nazi country does that kind of thing.
Or, Gary comes back and the corrupt heads at the BBC leave!!!
He is only stating fact, unlike the BBC (tory propaganda machine)
As long as his on air comments are about the football, not sure what his off air comments about government have to do with his employer.
Let's hope they sack him
The likelihood is that you and the rest of the right wing representatives of the Conservative‘s who bought themselves control of the BBC will shortly be redundant. Along with most of the Conservative MP’s at the next election -Thankfully .We won’t forget!
I can do it in less than 5: “We fucked up big time”
The BBc is a Dinosaur and needs to end. It’s the 21st century and we are still paying for this shit? Get rid. We absolutely don’t need the BBC.
Zzzz
All Gary Lineker care about is money... Not morals... That's why he went to present in Qatar
Don't even try to defend your indefensible position you biased load of cobblers that you are. Portray yourself as unbiased yet so much that is not aired or even proper air timed is merely the BBC as bullhorn for their master's voice. Your time as Propagandist General is soon over
Omg i do not care about this, I’ve never watched him on tv in my life. This is not news
Wnkr Lineker sacked .. result
What a pile of BBC propaganda Oh ! How did MatchOfTheDay go now it’s been Boycotted by many of the decent commentators you have. Show em this little vid of yours & maybe they will believe this BS
All Labour crying 😂
Tad one-sided, auntie.
You spot the difference then ? It’s not just about boat people , it’s all the lies ! Cover ups , corruption, and as for the WEF WHO support ! Criminal and treason
The only reason why I was paying Tv licence was to watch (match of the day) I guess I won’t be needing Tv license now.
There are better ways to state bbc doesn't care about immigrants :D
Surely what Matt Le Tissier preaches about covid conspiracy theories is much more harmful than this. Give the guy a break
What are your latest instructions now?
This is the problem with society. Government acts like nazi germany - nobody bats an eye. Famous person says government is acting like nazi germany - loses his job…
Is this your attempt to deflect blame, Lineker is entitled to his personal opinion, and it effects the BBC in no way as he's not in a News or Current Affir role.
The BBC are a joke. When everyone who works on your programme walks away then surely you recognise you’ve made a mistake
Do football fans need to be told what they are actually watching
Gary Lineker's tweet row... in under 25 words: The BBC are running scared of the weird 1930s-style protofacists who put their guy in at the top of the BBC.
Tory Mosley supporters i believe he wanted them thrown out of the country in boats
It’s a shame people weren’t up in arms when Lineker and the other hypocrites went off to the World Cup
Censorship is real… If you speak up against the establishment they will fuck you up. Simple as that
No problem with him expressing his opinion - good on him. But I'm interested in what the HS said that was similar to what the Nazis said. Both sides of it - Home Sec and Nazis. Or is he on the bandwagon 'I don't like the Tories so I'll just say they're Nazis'?
Dear Tory Bosses,at the BBC? Why isn't this giblethead 'stood down',in the name of impartiality?
To quite this government, they were only guidelines not rules
Have the Narrative Enforcement Police stopped frothing at the mouth yet and reinstated him? Sack the head of the BBC and try again!
'parts company' 🤡🌍 He violated editorial guidelines and made an anti-semitic comment (because if ABridgen non-AS comment was AS then so was Lineker's) - so sack him.
This video, right here, is the reason the BBC is weak and has lost all credibility.
Sack the lot of them!!!
Wahooo Smug two faced hypocrite that supported the regimes that beat women in the streets! Murder gay people and killed over 5,000 black slaves building stadiums! Morals and principles of a snake!
Good riddance to this over paid Pratt who lives in an Ivory Tower and dosn't understand the people
This Cocky Arrogant **** should be sacked.
If Lineker had tweeted that he agreed with Braverman he would be equally “guilty” of not being impartial, but I very much doubt it would even be mentioned - never mind being forced off MOTD.
Lineker was right.
The BBC Board should resign or be fired.
This is staged to make BBC appear ‘ conservative’ whereas they have only been blatant far left propagandists
Here's the reason why
I now look forward to watching BBCMOTD without numerous, inflated ego’s in the studio blocking my vision. Viewing figures will soar! 🚀 😊 SkySports BTSport
Why would anyone want to work for the BBC ? They control you on the inside, and control you on the outside. B-ig B-rother C-ompany springs to mind.
No World or National news!!! Let's have some proportionality bbcnews!
Funny that BBC and its British politicians talks about FoE in other countries. Bunch of hypocrites.
BBC needs to shutdown completely. Awful how they reported fake false news about Covid. Put fear into the British Public. While the public was stuck in their homes like battery chickens, these bastards were taking the piss out of us. Rise up British public shut the BBC down.
You lot are a disgrace
More rubbish totally biased bbc are living up to Tory party standards ? Childish nonsense with no credibility! However we expect nothing more from you bbc ! You’ve apparently lost all investigative journalists?
Bye bye GaryLinekar or DefundTheBBC
So now bbc can only employ robots with no opinion. Lord sugar was never told off for being a Lord
Solidarity with GaryLineker BoycottBBC
Fire the fricken lot of em, save millions 👍
Gary Lineker is a joke 😳, false and fake rubbish nonsense presenter. Should be axed from 📺.
This is what the Auschwitz memorial has to say about the foreign secretary's language. Fitting, isn't it?
What's it like making the news as well as reporting it. The BBC really has scored an own goal over the last 24 hours. (Pun intended)
The problem isn’t Gary’s tweets but your rightwing chairman in bed with the Tory Government GaryGate
Can I assume that all your overpaid football pundits who have chosen not to turn up for work today will be subject to disciplinary action? As as fee payer I not only think they are overpaid but their actions totally arrogant. This now exacerbated by the football clubs themselves.
Shame on you Blue Broadcasting Company!
He was happy to be in Qatar though wasn’t he picking up a lovely pay cheque
At least he is now free to join GB News.
BREAKING NEWS: Man holds opinion that matters more than anyone else’s because he works in football. Nothing else is happening in the world.
Hang on the BBC have produced a summary of the very thing that could be their undoing? This really is the definition of TV eating itself!
I’m enjoying Bargain Hunt! 👍
How come Miss Alex Scott was not punished for wearing the Rainbow armband during the world cup. Was that not a breach of the impartiality rules?
Let's put 10 dangerous illegal boat across the channel asylum seekers in mr linekers home and near his wife and then let's see if he has the same views on illegal asylum seekers , I bet he says get them asylum seekers away from my home ....
Ok for Sugar to tweet about Nazis when it's about Corbin but not ok for Lineker to point out similarities between Tory speeches and those made leading to the holocaust. The accurate one causes the fuss.
Too bloody long get rid of the muppet
Was this biased anti Corbyn propaganda by the ?
Again you get it so wrong .why ask Tory donor and phone salesman what he thinks? And then quote him as saying “comparing country to Nazi Germany “ .lineker never said that.such poor journalism
Bring back Alan Hansen
He can house immigrants in his house if he’s not happy with it
No freedom of speech, despite how harmless and not ill-intentioned it is.
His comment comparing current government speech to that of 1930’s Germany… the irony is that being fired for making that tweet, is totally 1930’s Germany…. Oh BBC, when will you learn.
Stand your ground, BBC, you've done the right thing.
Where does this end if an employer can threaten your job for things you think outside of the workplace and for which your job is unrelated. It’s very hard to see this as anything other than stifling freedom of speech
he signed an agreement,already got warned,he took money from qataris bosses and went to qatar for wc ,tslk about double standards, wise up lineker,SACK HIM and his boring gobby cronies👎😫🇮🇪☘️
All your Rich Football Pundits on the back of Fans, should stop with their self entitled arrogance, nothing to do with bbc,but Gary Said a very horrible thing about the 1930s & should Apologise for that!!! Sky Sports is an alternative & talkSPORT
He’s an absolute wet wipe and so are all the sheep following him, because he thinks the small island of the UK should keep allowing immigrants in who rape and abuse little girls and women, which is being censored by the MSM and the police, soon to be the minority but who cares ey
Glad BBC has dropped sports tv I love football but don't need politics involved Gary come and spend sometime around where these boat people are all hotels are full poverty on the streets would it be a good idear to let some of you rooms with other wealth people you know.
What I want to know is, did the government contact the bbc over the GaryLineker tweet?
Why are you even including CLEARLY biased responses? What's the point, other than supporting Tories?
Instead of helping the government do another fascism, why don't you report on the terrible things they are proposing for some of the world's most vulnerable people? Enough with the dead cat already. What Lineker said is true and that's the reason why certain factions are upset.
To his credit he has single handily taking all the bland presenters with him off the air, a master stroke
ImWithGary
The BBC as we know it, is dead ...
All tossers lets face it
No longer interested. State controlled TV. Total disgrace - and DANGEROUS.
90 glorious sec’s of favourable sound bites to manipulate the truth … worst thing is … I pay for this 🤣
Impartial BBC? I don't think so.... IStandWithGaryLineker . Right wing, mouthpiece for the Conservatives criminal regime.
Gary Lineker the hypocrite. Only bothered about human rights where it concerns the Tory government. Not so bothered by human rights in Qatar, nor were his hypocrite mates.
I don't think BBC News is the best people to be reporting on this.
It's all a big distraction to take the heat off hancock's WhatsApp messages. And guess what it's worked. Well done BBC you've done it again. DefundTheBBC
This shows how absurd cancel culture has become! Whatever happened to robust debate?
Just deleted BBC News from favourites switched to Sky. Done.
Richard Sharp has two ongoing investigations into his actions! When will he step down?
I don’t really understand this big controversy, nor why that would offend anyone. It’s not like he actually compared it to the travesty’s of 1930’s Berlin. But more of what Hitler would have said. How can that offend anyone, unless it where the truth!
You can disagree with Gary but don't take away his freedom of speech!
Andrew Neil? Alan Sugar? They’re ok because they’re right-wing. The BBC has been hopelessly compromised by stuffing management full of Tory place-men.
By the way: In Germany in the 30s you were also not allowed to criticise the government. Just saying. ImWithGary GaryLinekerIsRight
In my opinion the BBCSport you sack GaryLineker .
You are missing that Lineker made political comments about QATAR and that the BBC has Richard Sharp and Robbie Gibb making these decisions
No mention of Chairman, Sugar, Neil, Clarkson or other non-impatial statements BBCBias
Can we now concentrate on questioning the Government's horrendous Policy?
I record MOTD and skip through all the pundit crap anyway. Please don't replace them with some other pointless overpaid Celeb like Vernon Kay, Paddy McGuinness or Rylan Clark. Plenty of others very capable of doing the job for a lot less money.
Sack the lot and save a fortune 👌
garylineker has been made to 'step down' BUT BBC Chairman Richard Sharp who didn't tell the appointments committee that he had helped arrange a £800k loan for Johnson. Sharp has TWO investigations into his actions ongoing. Why hasn't HE stepped down?
Good riddance to Lineker! Such a hypocritical, arrogant, clueless are. If only he had spoken out about all the children being raped & groomed in the UK by his illegal wanna be friends instead
Gary Lineker has broken no rules. He has been consistent. BBC management haven’t. They seem to be making it up as they go along - doing far more damage to the broadcaster’s reputation than the original tweet ever did.
How the BBC loves to talk about itself. Such arrogance. Top 5 news items over this mess it has created. For the first time, I think not...
Just show the matches we’ll form our own opinions
Sack him and the others, we don’t pay our licence fee’s for this revolt !!
It wasn't him expressing his 'opinions' - he was simply telling the truth. Just as Julian Assange was telling the truth, and revealing war crimes. People who reveal evil must be recognised & celebrated - not banned & imprisoned. The BBC should champion freedom - not crush it.
What row?! Your chairman is a Tory donor, and also does what they tell him to do. Shameful.
'YOU'VE LOST THE FOOTBALL!' MOTD BBCMOTD
Telling someone to be politically neutral is not the same as supporting the other side. The left think the BBC is a Tory mouthpiece. The right think the BBC is infested with lefties. They can't win...
Richard Sharp OUT!
His criticism of the language government ministers have been using is totally valid. You have deliberately cherry picked what to use in this rather sorry clip. Keep digging...
Has he not resigned or been sacked yet for his inappropriate comments to Suella? This is a great opportunity for BBC to freshen up Match the day with a new presenter for a fraction of the taxpayers money paid to Lineker and cut out all the dreary and stale pundits on the show!
Overpaid multi millionaire Labour activist wants to use his privileged position to spread socialist propaganda.
what do you care, you Tory Stooges!!!
This would mean something if motd was relevant.and as for football focus and that nonentity!
More Tory plants in the BBC than in Kew Gardens.
The BBC is pathetic and quite frankly a control freak they should be ashamed
Overpaid multi millionaire football presenter now wants to run the country.
I’m glad the BBC have stood firm and hopefully this will start a shift away from the blatant pro-left, woke supporting and box-ticking stance they’ve adopted for a few years. Those at the BBC who have backed Linekar should not be allowed to return.
So...we were not to mix politics and human rights with sports, at FIFA's distasteful spectacle in Qatar but, in the UK, football shows are to be a vehicle for presenters' political views. How strange it all is.
Whate the football pudits thinking? Linekers remarks were disgusting & the bbc acted correctly, if they want to walk out are they not breaking their cont4act? Sack them all & get a whole new 5eam in would be my choice
As recounted by one of the two sides. BBC's idea of what constitutes Impartiality is exposed right here LOL
There are many jobs on society where employees cannot express political views. Linekar knew the rules. He's a big boy. Too many 'media stars' have become self-appointed spokespeople for public opinion. Heaven help us!
So much for free speech…..
Hey BBC; maybe you should turn your main & news logo colour from red to Tory blue...
Get in the bin .
Tories control the BBC and won't stop until they have North Korean levels of support from all presenters
In a nutshell, if you want paid work with our state broadcaster, you can’t slag off this evil, inept Tory regime’s policies. Straight from Putin’s playbook. scary
Assuming the same impartiality rules will apply to other high profile bbc stars?
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