The BBC fired Gary Lineker, who criticized the government! The country revolted…
For the first time in its 59-year history, ‘Match of the Day’ faces a broadcast crisis with no interviews from presenters, pundits, commentators or athletes, after the BBC’s decision to suspend Gary Lineker from the channel sparked mass protests .
Lineker, a 62-year-old former soccer legend, tweeted sarcastically, comparing the Home Office’s immigration policy to Nazi Germany in the 1930s. BBC management suspended Lineker’s role on the “Match of the Day” show. on the grounds that the post violated the channel’s neutrality rules.
WRIGHT AND SHEARER ALSO DRAWN
The former British striker was told by BBC bosses yesterday afternoon that he should resign his political posts or leave the BBC. While many celebrities sent messages of support for Lineker, the show’s co-hosts Ian Wright and Alan Shearer announced they would not be continuing their duties to show solidarity with their former colleagues.
Football pundit Ian Wright said he would not host “Match of the Day” as long as Lineker’s ban continues and expressed “solidarity” with the co-host.
BBC management held a meeting with senior executives to get the show aired on Saturday night. Speaking to the Daily Mail on the matter, a BBC official said: “Now the rest is up to Lineker. He has to make a decision.” saying.
Expert commentators for the show Alex Scott, Jermaine Jenas, Mark Chapman and Micah Richards have also announced that they will not be participating in the channel’s broadcasts. Experienced people at the BBC interpreted the wave of protests and strikes as a “BBC crisis”.
Alan Shearer, last removed from “Match of the Day” and “MOTD to the BBC” [Cumartesi] I informed him that I would not be on the screen at night,” he said.
It is even said that there are suggestions that players and managers should not participate in interviews with the BBC after games. A source close to the Match of the Day show claimed that even the production team plans to take action in support of Gary Lineker and has contacted his union.
WHAT DID GARY LINEKER SAY?
Former footballer Lineker, regarding Interior Minister Suella Braverman’s proposal to prevent irregular immigrants in the country, said: “This is no different language than Germany used in the 1930s and it is immeasurably a policy cruel towards the most vulnerable people, but am I crossing borders? he had commented.