| Lineker dropped from MOTD 16:54 - Mar 10 with 43991 views | Bushman |
David Attenborough show kicked sideways to iPlayer
What times we live in |  |
| I know almost nothing about the Premier League even though I try to catch the big games every now and then at the end of the season. But I will say this, Queens Park Rangers is just a fukking sick ass team name. Just sounds so cool. |
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| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:03 - Mar 10 with 12509 views | easthertsr |
Absolutely ridiculous! He tweets in his spare time, not voicing his opinions whilst on air. He works for the sports department of the BBC , not current affairs. Why on earth should be be not able to comment on politics ? |  | | |
| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:04 - Mar 10 with 12453 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
This thread will end up fine I’m sure. |  | | |
| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:13 - Mar 10 with 12420 views | davman |
Man has opinion he dares to share.
Utterly, utterly ridiculous that you get censured by who you work for.
They pay you, they do not own you. |  |
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| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:15 - Mar 10 with 12404 views | Toast_R |
His first suspension 😆 |  | | |
| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:17 - Mar 10 with 12383 views | derbyhoop |
Glad to see Richard Sharp and Robbie Gibb making an impact.
Former helped source a loan for Johnson, while the latter was T May's chief of staff before becoming a driving force in GB News.
Nothing to see here. |  |
| "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one's lifetime." (Mark Twain)
Find me on twitter @derbyhoop and now on Bluesky |
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| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:19 - Mar 10 with 12363 views | traininvain |
Cancel culture. |  | | |
| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:22 - Mar 10 with 12346 views | HAYESBOY |
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people wont be offended. |  |
| Smells like a trout farm in here |
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| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:27 - Mar 10 with 12303 views | Logman |
Own goal by the BBC. | | | |
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| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:34 - Mar 10 with 12242 views | Harbour |
Bit odd that as Alan Sugar publicly backed Bojo at the last election and he kept his job? I’d it the now CBC rather than the BBC? | | | |
| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:34 - Mar 10 with 12240 views | Northernr |
Inevitable. As soon as a blowhard like Tim Davie was put in charge and started blabbing on about impartiality they were going to have a problem, because there will inevitably be contradictions like Andrew Neil, Alan Sugar, Robbie Gibb, Richard Sharp etc and in this era of extreme division you're just going to tie yourself in a thousand 'whataboutery' knots. I suspect you'll see exactly what I mean over the following dozen pages of this thread.
Be interesting to see who actually hosts and appears on it now. Ian Wright has already said he won't do the show tomorrow.
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| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:38 - Mar 10 with 12155 views | SheffieldHoop |
People have been calling each other nazis on the internet for decades, it's hardly news. Including people who regularly appear on the BBC, directly employed or not.
What I can't understand about the BBC is why they're sending push notifications through the news app every few days about how Twitter is definitely on the brink of collapse, any day now. Who gives a fck? Fck off. |  |
| "Someone despises me. That's their problem." Marcus Aurelius |
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| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:41 - Mar 10 with 12163 views | dmm |
Auntie BBC is a reactionary old bitch controlled by reactionary old Tories. |  | | |
| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:46 - Mar 10 with 12114 views | westy |
Absolutely absurd. You just know what type of person will be getting the gig once Lineker is forced out. You only have to look at Grandstand to see where this is going. Diversity my arse | | | |
| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:49 - Mar 10 with 12078 views | Paddyhoops |
A national treasure muzzled. Karen Brady and Alan Sugar well known for political views and donations next out the door . Doubtful.
Free speech my arse. | | | |
| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:51 - Mar 10 with 12048 views | PunteR |
Don't care about Lineker. Great striker though.
Don't really understand the Attenborough decision.
This right/left thing can just get in the fcking sea.
The thing is Attenborough can preach about evolution all day long and no religious fundermentalist bat's an eyelid. Say something mildly political and people loose their shit!..  |  |
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| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:51 - Mar 10 with 12032 views | Rs_Holy |
Ian Wright refusing to appear on tomorrow’s show…. Good lad!!! |  | | |
| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:54 - Mar 10 with 12035 views | StreathamRanger |
This never ending culture war is almost as depressing as QPRs never ending losing run. We're now in scorched earth territory. Tories are finished and they know it. Their only objective now is to leave the country in as much of a mess as possible for when Labour take over. What a wretched state we're in! | | | |
| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:55 - Mar 10 with 12020 views | DWQPR |
Whatever the rights or wrongs of what the Tories are trying to put into law with the illegal immigrants coming over from France, who really are the country who should be sorting this out rather than allowing the people traffickers to continue to make millions, the fact is that it is not comparable to Nazi Germany or the holocaust which Lineker pretty much suggested. He could have tweeted that the laws were in his view callous, inhumane, anything. But it certainly isn’t comparable to Nazi Germany. On the bright side with a bit of luck there will be no punditry at all and we can watch 90 minutes of back to back action. MOTD is much like a football match nowadays. You want to see 90 minutes of football and get less than an hour because of pundit shithousery telling you exactly what you’ve just watched with your own eyes. And getting overpaid for the benefit. | |
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| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:59 - Mar 10 with 11978 views | StreathamRanger |
| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 17:55 - Mar 10 by DWQPR |
Whatever the rights or wrongs of what the Tories are trying to put into law with the illegal immigrants coming over from France, who really are the country who should be sorting this out rather than allowing the people traffickers to continue to make millions, the fact is that it is not comparable to Nazi Germany or the holocaust which Lineker pretty much suggested. He could have tweeted that the laws were in his view callous, inhumane, anything. But it certainly isn’t comparable to Nazi Germany. On the bright side with a bit of luck there will be no punditry at all and we can watch 90 minutes of back to back action. MOTD is much like a football match nowadays. You want to see 90 minutes of football and get less than an hour because of pundit shithousery telling you exactly what you’ve just watched with your own eyes. And getting overpaid for the benefit. |
But he didn't compare it to the Holocaust. He said the language used by Braverman and co is similar to the language used in 1930s Germany to sow division. He's not wrong. If he said sending people to Ruwanda was like the holocaust then of course that would be wrong, but he didn't. | | | |
| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 18:02 - Mar 10 with 11928 views | Hayesender |
Matt Le Tisier to take over  |  |
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| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 18:02 - Mar 10 with 11941 views | numptydumpty |
Ridiculous decision
And Linekers words taken out of context
He was likening the WORDING of the boats issue on a par with the WORDING used in 1930s Germany.
I no idea about that but he wasn't likening us to Nazi Germany but obviously the link in a clumsily worded tweet taken it of all meaning and almost then saying Lineker supports Nazi Germany.
Mad.
He was vocal about Qatars human rights issues but despite some aspects society working well there ie very organised, lack of drink related issues etc but his view to complain against them deemed ok by BBC.
Whether people like Gary Lineker as a presenter he has been there for 25 years and provided them with being a decent presenter over many many years.
One word out of place and strike three.
BONKERS WORLD !!!!
Who are these idiots in charge of WOKE society...
When people can send DEATH threats to random people online and most Internet trolling is nearly always not investigated or indeed prosecuted also. |  |
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| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 18:03 - Mar 10 with 11940 views | StreathamRanger |
'After the announcement, ex-Blue Peter presenter Simon Thomas said: “I wonder what the end result would have been had @GaryLineker Tweeted his whole hearted support for the Government’s immigration policy & had used the same inflammatory words like ‘invasion’ that were deployed by @SuellaBraverman?
“This (100 emoji) would not have been the end result.”
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| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 18:04 - Mar 10 with 11930 views | ted_hendrix |
He 96 Years old ffs, what a disgraceful way to treat a BBC legend. |  |
| My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic. |
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| Lineker dropped from MOTD on 18:06 - Mar 10 with 11904 views | Damo1962 |
He is entitled to his ,"opinion" like anyone else. I doubt the Left would be so offended about his treatment though, if someone more to the right had said it. In my "opinion," Lineker is a self righteous, virtue signalling, hypocritical bore. He is probably already dotting the I's and crossing the T's on his new lucrative gig. The BBC should be defunded...then they can hire any blow-hard they want. | | | |
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