This is not about who hosts a TV show. That the national broadcaster might have a bias is fundamental to whether democracy functions or not. Its not a nothing story.
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This is not about who hosts a TV show. That the national broadcaster might have a bias is fundamental to whether democracy functions or not. Its not a nothing story.
I think it’s a nothing story to most people who don’t give two hoots though.
Im so used to MOTD I didn’t know if there was somewhere to do this.
It would be good for the uninitiated to know where to find these-is it just random accounts posting the goals?
In other news, my attempts to find things to watch on ITVX rather than IPlayer are not going well. That app is steaming pile of excrement
Well yes, it goes without saying its a nothing story to people who don't give two hoots about it. That's a pretty universal truth.
I'm truly shocked that this is your opinion.
Good to see Lineker standing up for what he believes in and everyone standing with him. How long have BBC got the rights for? Is there a chance they’ll just throw in the towel and give up on MOTD with another channel coming in?
It is important. The BBC has essentially become the governments play thing by twerking for them to keep funding. It's a wider issue
They had Andrew Neil for feck sake doing Politics shows and no issue but Gary Liniker, who does football shows, gets booted for saying the immigration bill is bad
The annoyance for me is that the bill scrutiny is being overlooked which is what the twats wanted but hoping it will come after
Might be a strong opinion but personally I feel the country is in such a shit state because of those people who don't give two hoots about the politics of their country allowing the Tories to pillage everything they can.
what's fundamental to democracy is the national broadcaster bowing to government pressure. Lineker beginning to sound more and more spot on regarding 1930s Germany...
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Being devil’s advocate here but the bbc would probably argue that the bit in bold is why they come down hard if presenter like Lineker doesnremain politically impartial.
Which would mean the issue isn’t that they did something wrong in how they treated Lineker, so much as why they previously allowed someone like Andrew Neill to take a BBC salary despite expressing political opinions.
Although the one thing I keep asking (and nobody has answered) is what does a politically impartial opinion on the refugee issue even look like?
The BBC love nothing more than a story about the BBC.
What new blood would be better than having three premier league legends? The BBC will only go looking for a new cast of obscure ex players who fill the ethnically diverse quota.
The new blood you refer to doesn’t want any of it either.
That’s pretty bonkers though. Provided he doesn’t do it on air or allow it to influence the job he does in asking football questions to former footballers then it has zero relevance.
I agree with you in general. If BBC were always this consistent it's no issue but this stinks of Tory's running the BBC
But as for the last question, I imagine it would be saying nothing?
what.. like Mark Noble and Wayne Rooney? Or maybe Jack Wilshere and Ryan Giggs? there's a reason Lineker has been in the job or more than 20 years... he happens to be good at it
I'm a bit surprised - and disappointed -- that Gary Neville hasn't said anything. Or have I missed it?
I could defo imagine him saying his statement.
Maybe he's hoping to get the gig
He tweeted in support when Wright pulled out.
Plus even the dimmest of dim-wits knows football and politics aren't the same thing (which is why the tories are so up in arms, being even dimmer than that)
Oh and as if he’s just read this thread 
Lineker doesn’t present their politics shows though. Also the prime minster choosing the person who runs the BBC makes a mockery of that line of argument.
Just go to the Sky Sports Premier League Youtube channel, or BT sports channel.
The official ones.
They have highlights of the games within a couple of hours of them ending, hours before motd airs.
Sugar was a Labour peer elevated by Brown I believe, so hardly a rabid Tory.
Can't believe he'd consider it for a second in the circumstances. and I'm pretty sure, he's very happy where he is (from everything I've heard - not huge amount recently, admittedly) Sky's a pretty good place to work
Has Goldbridge ruled himself out?
Oh and as if he’s just read this thread
I love Gary more each day
There's an official Sky Sports Premier League Youtube channel. Has all the goals on there.
https://www.youtube.com/@skysportspremierleague/featured
Yes, because that's the real issue.
How do you always manage to completely miss the point when it comes to these wider issues? Maybe you are the Daily Mails biggest customer.
Plus they have a 90-minute re-run of the "game of the day", which is often United if we've played at 3pm on a Saturday, and 30-minute highlights of all the other games later on
He's tweeted and retweeted a shit load about this over the past few days.
If you were interested and missed it, where were you looking? His MySpace page?
yes, but news of LIneker's "suspension" only broke recently, which is what I meant. time for both Garys to be on Question Time!
Excited to follow the absolute meltdown that follows today
That Gary Lineker is deemed too politically partial to appear on the BBC but Andrew fecking Neil is not is beyond parody.
Any minute now, they'll offer Rees-Twat and Faridge hosting jobs at a rebooted Top of the Pops
Not joke, I bet MOTD has its biggest TV audience for years tonight.