Will Gary Lineker be presenting Motd on Saturday?

[weepiper]

Lineker was correct. I don’t follow football, so I have no opinion on Match of the Day. I do think it is time to be this guy, though, not the ones standing around him:

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[andysays]

Not sure who some of those faces are, but they seem to be missing Kier Starmer and Yvette Cooper, both of whom have lined up behind the government policy and/or criticised Lineker

 

[danny la rouge]

Very good. It’s rare I like his work.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[stavros]

Didn't David Mellor present 606 whilst a sitting MP? Presumably the latter meant he occasionally passed comment on government policy.

 

[maomao]

Also famous for shitting himself in the World Cup Semi Final

I was reading the news with my daughter and she noticed the name Lineker and asked who it was and wanted to read about it. I told her it was Gary Lineker and she said 'that's the man you showed me pooing himself during a football game'. I don't even remember showing her (though it's the sort of thing I would do) so it must have been ages ago.

 

[domestos]

I've heard Rod Liddle is taking over MOTD

 

[weltweit]

Linekers tweet was carefully worded. Most of the criticisms of him don't seem to recognise that.

We don't take a fraction of the number of refugees that other European countries take.
The language is similar to 1930s Germany.

 

[rubbershoes]

What's Farage up to these days? Maybe he could alternate with Lineker

 

[Elpenor]

Not Semi Final but opening game against the Republic of Ireland.
Italia 90.........

The kind of pedantry we all come to urban for, and I was about to post this myself

 

[Elpenor]

Didn't David Mellor present 606 whilst a sitting MP? Presumably the latter meant he occasionally passed comment on government policy.

He did, I recall him not presenting it during the run up to the election period though.

 

[quiet guy]

What's Farage up to these days? Maybe he could alternate with Lineker

Or even Mad Nads

 

[Bingoman]

Or even Mad Nads

Watch the ratings plummet

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Half of his problem is that he is ridiculously overpaid, so of course people are going to have a go at him. The BBC Singers choir is to be abolished. Their entire salary bill is less than half Mr. Lineker's BBC pay. Surely they can find someone to talk about football for a lot less cash. The BBC is a public service broadcaster; they can develop talent and allow it to go elsewhere when it gets too expensive.

 

[Karl Masks]

What's Farage up to these days?

Oh, you sweet summer child

 

[Pickman's model]

Half of his problem is that he is ridiculously overpaid, so of course people are going to have a go at him. The BBC Singers choir is to be abolished. Their entire salary bill is less than half Mr. Lineker's BBC pay. Surely they can find someone to talk about football for a lot less cash. The BBC is a public service broadcaster; they can develop talent and allow it to go elsewhere when it gets too expensive.

Yeh there's no end of people who can talk about football. But if they're going to kick someone off it should be alan shearer, who kicked neil lennon in the head and threatened to quit the england team if he received any punishment, rather than someone like lineker who was not booked once in his career

 

[keybored]

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Lineker confirmed as being on the right side of history,then.

 

[Joe Chi Min]

On R4 last night, there was some Tory MP saying Lineker had been made famous by the BBC.

Now I know little about sport but even I know he was famous for being a footballer (Leicester and England and Spain somewhere I think?) and for never getting booked and that's presumably how he got into the Match of the Day thing.

He also soiled himself mid-match and left his wife for a younger woman

 

[Joe Chi Min]

Also famous for shitting himself in the World Cup Semi Final

I should have known

 

[friedaweed]

On R4 last night, there was some Tory MP saying Lineker had been made famous by the BBC.

Now I know little about sport but even I know he was famous for being a footballer (Leicester and England and Spain somewhere I think?) and for never getting booked and that's presumably how he got into the Match of the Day thing.

Lineker is also the only player to have been the top scorer in England with three clubs: Leicester City, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur.

I suspect just like you Sue, he'd like to forget he played for Everton.

 

[friedaweed]

He also soiled himself mid-match and left his wife for a younger woman

Unlike Rooney who soiled himself on an older woman.

 

[Joe Chi Min]

Unlike Rooney who soiled himself on an older woman.

Once a blue…

 

[Pickman's model]

I should have known

Yes, you should

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Yeh there's no end of people who can talk about football. But if they're going to kick someone off it should be alan shearer, who kicked neil lennon in the head and threatened to quit the england team if he received any punishment, rather than someone like lineker who was not booked once in his career

He may be a nice chap, and have an exemplary record as a player, but TV presenters don't need to be paid north of a million quid, certainly not for a public service broadcaster....ratings are not the most important thing...it's not like he's there to sell potato crisps.

There are many esteemed popsters here who would probably be happy to pontificate on the google box on a Sunday afternoon for a modest contribution to the server fund and a couple of pints.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

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"that used by Germany in the 30s"

He should have said "that used by the Daily Mail in the 30s"

Somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to recall that the DM's big problem with Lineker started about 20 years ago when he stopped regularly wearing a tie on TV

 

[Dystopiary]

He also soiled himself mid-match and left his wife for a younger woman

I'm not sure the second part is true.

 

[Sue]

He also soiled himself mid-match and left his wife for a younger woman

I'm only familiar with (some of) his footballing exploits tbh.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Tonight with words you've spoken
You say that they're nazi scum
But will your tweet be deleted
When the bun fight (When the bun fight)
Headlines tomorrow morning's (tomorrow morning's) Sun?

I'd like to know that your posts
Are posts I can be sure of
So tell me now, and I won't ask again
Are you still presenting on suuuunday?

 

[Pickman's model]

There are many esteemed popsters here who would probably be happy to pontificate on the google box on a Sunday afternoon for a modest contribution to the server fund and a couple of pints

Did you not see I just said there's no end of people who can talk about football?