Will Gary Lineker be presenting Motd on Saturday?

[Ax^]

hmm it was a joke like saying their was a slope on a bridge in thailand
hinted at the n word whilst using enn minnie mo
slagged off gordon brown for being a one eye scottish idiot

never got take over TV


until he punched a show producer over a fucking pasty

far comparison to the BBC now with Boris mate in Charge taking Lineker off the telly 3 days after saying some of the language the government was using could be taken as othering people and being a bit nazi

 

[surreybrowncap]

It’s three lines you daft auld bastard

Not to be confused with...

 

[Magnus McGinty]

hmm it was a joke like saying their was a slope on a bridge in Burma


he was never censored until he punched a show producer over a fucking pasty

A steak you mean? Yeah I agree with the slope that was let slide (pun unintended).

 

[WhyLikeThis]

So, who at the BBC took the decision to suspend him?

 

[Kaka Tim]

So, who at the BBC took the decision to suspend him?

Suella Braverman

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Suella Braverman

This is her baby for sure but who did she lean on?

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Ah man he's gonna go isn't he.

Who? Gary Lineker or Tim Davie?

 

[Ax^]

current director general of the BBC was appointed by Boris

one ran for the Tory party and has provide donations to the party

cannot think who would listen to Braverman

 

[Storm Fox]

Tonight's Match of the Day

That's just not going to happen!

They'll using Test Card W not Test Card F

 

[Lord Camomile]

They've shown that a lot of the time, they just can't help themselves...

As I said upthread, though, can see them just quietly walking away from it and leaving BBC management to deal with it and take the hits.

So, according to Sunak, "it is rightly a matter for [the BBC]".



Uh-huh...

 

[Orang Utan]

I have not read, and have no interest in reading what he said.

My objection to how much Lineker is paid is well documented on here, I've made my view known more than once.

To pay someone more than a million pounds of extorted money to present a football program is utterly obscene.

Liar

 

[two sheds]

It was a joke ffs. I’m not even a fan of Clarkson and he’s done other shit as bad.

A joke? That was Lineker's mistake clearly - he should just have joked about shooting dead the tory front bench in front of their families and he'd have been fine

 

[Orang Utan]

Local government workers (and civil servants, presumably) are instructed not to express political views, an instruction I don’t really understand and routinely ignore.

 

[Bingoman]

20 mins of motd is it really worth showing it

 

[Ax^]

only in Tim Davies mind

face saving mode innit

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Local government workers (and civil servants, presumably) are instructed not to express political views, an instruction I don’t really understand and routinely ignore.

Much to our joy.

 

[xenon]

It was a joke ffs. I’m not even a fan of Clarkson and he’s done other shit as bad.

The shooting strikers thing? I don’t mean Gary Lineker. yeah if I recall it pissed me off at the time. In hindsight, I tend to agree, it was just a crass joke with him playing up to type.

 

[petee]

so is it showing on the teevee in silence?

 

[Ax^]

The shooting strikers thing? I don’t mean Gary Lineker. yeah if I recall it pissed me off at the time. In hindsight, I tend to agree, it was just a crass joke with him playing up to type.

racist says racist things in the Racist Sun news paper

all a joke mind

move along lads???

 

[Magnus McGinty]

racist says racist things in the Racist Sun news paper

all a joke mind

move along lads???

Many a true word is said in jest.
But he was counterposing something he had said minutes earlier if not taken out of context which folk seem keen to do.

 

[weepiper]

 

[xenon]

racist says racist things in the Racist Sun news paper

all a joke mind

move along lads???

No not that stuff. The Meghan Markle thing was particularly creepy and weird. just the shooting strikers. I like Frankie Boyle. For example. If someone I don’t like makes crass jokes it’s a bit hypocritical for me to get aerated about it.

 

[cesare]

Many a true word is said in jest.
But he was counterposing something he had said minutes earlier if not taken out of context which folk seem keen to do.

Are you doing an Humberto?

 

[Ax^]

No not that stuff. The Meghan Markle thing was particularly creepy and weird. just the shooting strikers. I like Frankie Boyle. For example. If someone I don’t like makes crass jokes it’s a bit hypocritical for me to get aerated about it.

ah like edgy humour myself so not one to Judge to much like a lot of controversial comics and other media

but their a more cynical edge with Clarkson that with comics like Frankie boyle

the moment you move away from it being Jokes to writing for a right wing rag as a regular columnist its no longer a joke its rhetoric

 

[xenon]

Are you doing an Humberto?

TBF he’s clearly talking about the shooting strikers thing. Not the rest. He said as much. As am I.

 

[xenon]

Clarkson is actually defending Lineker as well. To complicate things.

 

[Sasaferrato]

As someone pointed out though, Lineker's conscience is a somewhat moveable feast. Broadcasting from Qatar wasn't a problem.

 

[Sasaferrato]

No not that stuff. The Meghan Markle thing was particularly creepy and weird. just the shooting strikers. I like Frankie Boyle. For example. If someone I don’t like makes crass jokes it’s a bit hypocritical for me to get aerated about it.

I went off Boyle for ever after his 'joke' about a disabled child.

 

[cesare]

TBF he’s clearly talking about the shooting strikers thing. Not the rest. He said as much. As am I.

We're comparing Clarkson to Lineker?

 

[Tooter]

Not sure if Pie is well regarded by a U75 audience because Spiked.

Don't you try and stifle my free speech! It's getting like 1930's Germany this place!