Gary Lineker won’t present BBC soccer show after Twitter post

The Washington Times ^ | March 10 | By Associated Press

[RandFan]

LONDON (AP) - Former England captain Gary Lineker will not present a soccer highlights show on the BBC until an agreement is reached on his social media use, the network said on Friday.

Lineker criticized the British government’s new asylum policy in a Twitter post, comparing lawmakers’ language about migrants to that used in Nazi Germany.

The BBC considers Lineker posting such views on social media as a breach of its guidelines and has been in discussions with him over his involvement in the “Match of the Day” program that is broadcast on Saturday nights and shows highlights of English Premier League games that day.

Lineker will not present “Match of the Day,” the BBC said, “until we’ve got an agreed and clear position on his use of social media.”

Lineker has yet to make an official comment.

Ian Wright, a former Arsenal and England player who works as a pundit on “Match of the Day,” said on Twitter he would not be appearing on the program this weekend out of “solidarity” with Lineker.

Conservative lawmakers in Britain are calling on the BBC to discipline Lineker, the network’s highest-paid star, for saying the government’s plan to detain and deport migrants arriving by boat is “an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s.”

The government has called Lineker’s Nazi comparison inappropriate and unacceptable, and some lawmakers said he should be fired

[BenLurkin]

Thin skinned bureaucrats.

[for-q-clinton]

Wait cancel culture is shutting down a lefty? DAGGUM...I never thought I’d see it.

[Nextrush]

The Left is powerful mass boycotts of presenters, pundits on BBC Sports shows today in solidarity with Lineker.

[RandFan]

They will have to cancel the show??

[fuzzylogic]

I grew up in the UK. Just outside Leicester City. This was my football team and this guy was the star player. It’s so sad to learn that he’s just another leftist woketard.

He’s said there isn’t a flood of immigrants. What planet is he on? Oh, that’s right, there isn’t WHERE HE LIVES.

The irony, since I’ve left the UK Leicester City is winning the nickname “Little Kashmir” due to the violent clashes happening between PAKISTANI and INDIAN IMMIGRANTS!

What an ostrich!

[Nextrush]

Sports shows on the BBC canceled today there was a walkout in support of Gary Lineker...

https://theglobeandmail.com/world/article-bbc-forced-to-cancel-sports-coverage-after-presenters-walk-out-over/

[Rummyfan]

Conservative lawmakers in Britain are calling on the BBC to discipline Lineker, the network’s highest-paid star, for saying the government’s plan to detain and deport migrants arriving by boat is “an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s.”

Where are the transport trains, the concentration camps, and the gas chambers? Lineker is guilty of Godwin's Law, but I don't see that as a reason too suspend him.