An utter twat and I disagree with every word but will defend to the death his right to say it.

I can’t see the fuss.

He can say what he wants, you can agree, disagree or not be bothered.

I think you should be suspended for comparing him to a twat Mr I. I'm a big fan of twats and always have been.

Multi millionaire so can afford to say what he wants.
Probably got a new job lined up at bein sports.
As for the bbc the tv license shoud be abolished.
Why should we pay for it when its a Freeview channel.

would he and the likeminded defend your right to have the opposite views to him. you,d be classed as a knuckle because modragging far right nazi who denies the holocaust and covid. if another sports pundit did have a different view his feet would not touch the ground and everyone knows this. sorry garry you tell fans they do not understand the game because they never played it. well you do not understand the man in the street because your adult life gave you protected status.

Agree

Will come out eventually?

again its something from the past when it was the one and only channel to watch. it needs funding somehow but should go down the advertising route or pay to view. remember more ads you get the more jobs for the bbc box ticking friends.

They have got to fund his £1.35 million salary, I didn’t realise Zoe Ball is on just under a £1 million it’s more than double of the long time presenters.
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I thought he was self employed in all his roles. So unless he has said something illegal is ok by me.
Has not the issue he raised been questioned as to its legality? Lets hope that vile bitch swings.

Calm down calm down

Interesting point about his employment status - over which HMRC and his lawyers are currently arguing.

If self employed, and he is in breach, end of contract and no compo?

Agree 100%. So much hypocrisy around this with those banging on about free speech, desperate to silence anyone with an opposing view. The BBC wont sack Lineker because they agree with every word he says. He can say what he likes but I dont want to have to pay him via my TV licence to say it. He needs to leave the the BBC and become a full time political activist. Have you noticed that anyone who isn't absolutely delighted to allow absolutely anyone to arrive in this country and live for free off the British tax payer is labelled as "far right". The label is used without question by almost all the mainstream media.....talk about shutting down debate.

What appalls me is his implication Britain can be compared to Nazi Germany in the 1930’s, it shows an stunning ignorance of history.
If ‘refugees’ from these country’s turned up on the shores of Nazi Germany, there’d be no one picking them up and if they got as far as landing on the beach, the ‘welcome’ would be a painful one and if they were lucky enough to actually to be accommodated it certainly would not be 5 star, except in the wretchedness stakes….and people like Mr Lineker would choose their words very carefully in such societies, the consequences are not worth considering.

All this started with covid and anyone not following the party line were tret like loons. Then it was the race question, then it was sexuality and now its illegal immegrants that they call asylum seekers. those old enough can remember if you told people you were an atheist and a republican you had to do your utmost to fly your flag if you were not prepared to join the others or shut up. it took years for people like me with my views to become accepted and in the same way our views that are anti woke now could be main stream in the future.

I believe the vast majority of people are anti woke, it’s the bloody media who keep encouraging them.

It would be interesting if Lineker went into politics and stood against a high profile MP like BJ etc.
It would be the Match of the Day.

Maybe the same if employed but i cant see him being removed.He is a national treasure

think ignorance and proven history make good bed fellows now. unless its an over egged description of the contribution those from west africa and the caribean made to the WW2 war effort they know very little of it. only recently a case of some from west africa being picked up in a west indian island. possibly trinidad but do not quote me who entered illegally. they were put in a detention cente straight away but this has not appeared on the bbc. who are the nazi,s then who treat their brothers like that.

needs to get back with his twin brother jeremy vine as they were separated at birth. both are types thatcher thought of when calling people wets.

He positively radiates smugness and a sniffy superiority….. yet looks more like a scrubbed up Catweazle on a promise every time I see him.
Get’s paid a lot of money for showing the goal highlights once a week, can’t they get someone with a personality?

until he got political he was a middle of the road type who was neither loved nor hated. a personality type would be better for football fans but might split the audiance more. bit like cloughy and a ron greenwood type of scenario.

Putting Lineker to one side it’s clear that the government aren’t bothered whether they follow through with their plan or not, it’s simply a tool to try and reduce their losses at the next election.

they know it wull be stopped somewhere down the line but can tell us all, well we tried. far too late now anyway as the horse has well and truly bolted.

The BBC wont sack him, they agree with him 100%: he is one of their own. Of course they have to pretend to be annoyed but secretly he can do no wrong. Lineker's only problem as far as the BBC is concerned is that he is a straight white male.

He is ‘self employed’ like a few others at the BBC, they were being investigated, they form a company make yourself the director with 1 share and appoint a company secretary. I was for years but I believe the HMRC are now saying this is illegal. The point being he is not working as a company as the BBC are his only employer not unless he is also freelancing.

Agree with the free speech bit. Accepting a difference of opinion seems to be a thing of the past these days. Everything is completely polarised.

As for the Beeb, it seems to have turned into Schrödinger's BBC. People on the Left think it's a Far Right organisation, while simultaneously people on the Right think it's a Socialist channel.

Is it not brand Lineker who has multiple income streams for all over the place?

He steps back from MOTD.
He will be back.

What else can he do…team up with Shearer to challenge Ant n Dec in the Saturday night banal comedy market…?

The left seem to be pushing the idea that the BBC is right wing despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. I presume they are trying this because they are terrified the BBC's leftist bias may start to be eroded. I gather a Tory was been appointed onto the board or something and there was some sleazy deal with money and Tim Davie and a tory but the BBC programme output is so obviously rooted in the liberal left it is laughable. Shamima Begum propaganda series? Any Dr Who from the Jodie Whitaker season in fact almost any of their drama or current affairs programme. Oh and the kids series "Horrible Histories" pushing the trope that the British Empire was evil and racist. The BBC right wing? Do me a favour

It's the big MOTD strike of 2023.

And I'd just like to say "I'm not doing it and neither is my wife Brian"

So anyone who didn't want The UK to become part of a Federal European state or have its own laws and protect its own borders is a racist most of whom would be dead soon according to Lineker. Gary we are a group of small islands. Do you really need it explained to you? OK, well fill a bottle continuously and tell me what happens? And finally, I don't seem to remember you being so vocal when the workers in Peterlee lost their jobs when Walkers went. On another note it almost hurt him to think that Liecester City where he started, won that over hyped over priced premier league trophy. Yeah he paid lip service with the pants gimmick but Gary ask yourself. You love the European mainland so much so why do all these refugees pass through France on the way to The UK when France is a safe country and under their laws they should seek asylum in the first landed safe country? It couldn't be something to do with the benefits system here could it?

He could start by making the 500 or so we have living down here comfortable in the grounds of his house first ... plenty of jobs going with Interpol at Calais.

Could be the benefits but I gather only 35% of asylum claims are granted by the French but the good ol' Brits grant 75%. Something to do with the officials being so overwhelmed by the backlog that they tend not to probe too deeply into the claims.

Let’s get real, what does he actually do…he presents a glorified goal highlights replay on the telly with the grimacing Mr Interesting Shearer once a week, why would anyone give a flying f#@k what he thinks about anything.
He must be on the Narcissistic Spectrum.

A Labour spokesman was on the box advocating solving the problem by having a mass amnesty for all those who crossed the channel and give them full rights to all benefits….seriously?

I’m all for free speech but think he has crossed a line here. I am a retired civil servant and would have been sacked for going on to social media for such extreme views. He thinks he is untouchable. He isn’t . I’m not saying he shouldn’t go on social media just needs to tone things down a bit.

I see some of football mates have come out in solidarity with the ‘Match of the Day One’.
Some one should sit him down and and gently break it to the all seeing genius that his footballing days are a long time ago and he presents a faded football highlights show that is no strain on anyones intellect. He appears to labour under the gross misapprehension his weekly appearance on his hardly intellectually challenging old pro’s chat session has endowed him with powers to speak to the world and educate us thicko’s who don’t share his woke world vision for our sins.
A nobody whose ego has been massaged to the point he see’s fit to tell the majority they’re out of step with him…… pity the fool and his naivety.

Why is he one of the highest paid presenters on the BBC, he is after all only part time, are there are other broadcasters head hunting him ?

That just about sums it up Jamie.
Funny how the BBC. that bastion of ‘getting down with the youth’ (or so it seems) and changing things, is nothing more than stuck in a time warp, we’re the cosy old formats just stumble on….also helps it the subject is something the top knobs know absolutely sod all about.

David Cameron was a keen football fan. He supported Aston Villa, or was it West Ham? He got confused as they wore a similar kit but we all do that.

Personally I might start watching all of match of the day as I won't have to fast forward through the self opinionated drivel spouted out by the so called " experts" who between them haven't watched as many games of all levels as I have.

Sack them all I say!

Someone on the board?
Well yes the BBC Chairman who donated £400k to the Conservative Party and stood guarantor for Johnson’s £800k loan then got the top job, all these lefty’s eh.

Well yes, not defending it or minimizing it but the fact is it makes not a jot of difference to the output of the BBC in terms of its liberal left, woke bias in all its programmes. The BBC is clearly NOT right wing or Tory supporting. It has a bias to the left which is obvious to anyone still watching their programmes.

Gary Linacre has a right to his opinion but to compare us to 30’s Germany is totally wrong and he should apologise for that. Why has all of his mates not have had a word in his ear and told him he was over the top with that comment?

Either they agree with him or they are such sycophants they dont want to be seen to not support him. The lot of them have no clue about how the British people feel about this issue. Why is Lineker so keen to defend the rights of Albanian economic migrants?

Have to say I watch very little BBC and almost none of it live but it certainly doesn’t jump out at me it’s bias, it’s interesting on Social Media that big advocates of hating the BBC and how they claim not to pay the Licence Fee are worried about it being wasted on Linekers wage.

Still pay my licence fee but increasingly find the BBC output unwatchable.

Lineker is entitled to his opinions and should be allowed to express his political thoughts like we all do, but should be always careful about the tone. It would be like me coming on to Poolie Bunker and saying there was a genuine reason for the killing of the Jews by Nazi Germany. Not sure why most of his colleagues are supporting him. He is lucky that he has not been sacked on the spot.