Will Gary Lineker be presenting Motd on Saturday?

[Petcha]

He does have a contract though, afaik.

He's basically got an umbrella company like many of us mere mortal freelancers. So I guess he submits timesheets (lol) like the rest of us. He flogs his services all over the show and does very well out of it. I also dont think for a minute he's stupid enough to have made those tweets without a bit of consideration.

 

[PursuedByBears]

YouGov daily poll:

 

[mauvais]

The only way Davie stays if Lineker grovels, apologises etc. Which ain't going to happen. So, the only way they get off the hook is if he walks in the very near future and he's surely astute enough to know that would be giving them an undeserved win. I just hope he returns to the Beeb ASAP and gets straight back into the subtle barbs that he does quite well (and then walks away in 12 months, donating the pay off money to refugees as mentioned by lbj).

I disagree, I think there are lots of ways out of this that involve some relatively minor concession on both sides, mistakes were made etc etc, though they don't necessarily solve the problem. But more importantly there is nobody really to hold Davie accountable.

The last one to be forced to resign was Entwistle after only two months in the job but being generally useless and failing to take charge of the McAlpine libel debacle, but that was some serious external pressure that came with accountability in itself. Before that you have to go back to Dyke who resigned over Hutton which was similar if less incompetent on his part.

 

[Ax^]

what the bbc should broadcast

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I disagree, I think there are lots of ways out of this that involve some relatively minor concession on both sides, mistakes were made etc etc, though they don't necessarily solve the problem. But more importantly there is nobody really to hold Davie accountable.

The last one to be forced to resign was Entwistle after only two months in the job but being generally useless and failing to take charge of the McAlpine libel debacle, but that was some serious external pressure that came with accountability in itself. Before that you have to go back to Dyke who resigned over Hutton which was similar if less incompetent on his part.

Has any of them caused a mass walk-out of 'talent' and cancelled shows? Surely this is a new level of incompetence.

 

[mauvais]

Has any of them caused a mass walk-out of 'talent' and cancelled shows? Surely this is a new level of incompetence.

There's a strong recency bias to all this. They've done loads of stupid things, defended them and then been entirely predictably forced into apologising by external pressure. Pay for women was one from memory, as was pursuing disciplinary action against Munchetty. I don't recall what from recent times did & didn't affect broadcast output like this but the level of scandal isn't especially novel.

 

[friedaweed]

Gary Lineker: BBC boss Tim Davie 'sorry' after sport disruption in Lineker row

Football coverage was severely impacted by a staff walk-out in support of the Match of the Day host.

www.bbc.co.uk

Sniff of back peddling.

 

[DaveCinzano]

There's a strong recency bias to all this. They've done loads of stupid things, defended them and then been entirely predictably forced into apologising by external pressure. Pay for women was one from memory, as was pursuing disciplinary action against Munchetty. I don't recall what from recent times did & didn't affect broadcast output like this but the level of scandal isn't especially novel.

The fallout from Savile - senior management torpedoing the Newsnight package, the pissed-off reporting team breaching omerta, ITV taking on lots of the material, and then the Panorama on the whole sorry affair

 

[littlebabyjesus]

There's a strong recency bias to all this. They've done loads of stupid things, defended them and then been entirely predictably forced into apologising by external pressure. Pay for women was one from memory, as was pursuing disciplinary action against Munchetty. I don't recall what from recent times did & didn't affect broadcast output like this but the level of scandal isn't especially novel.

Maybe, but I can't remember a single instance of a mass walk-out of this kind and cancelled shows due to a ham-fisted BBC policy decision. The level of incompetence demonstrated by the bosses isn't novel (Munchetty debacle was every bit as bad) but its consequences surely are.

 

[Dystopiary]

Joan Bakewell's been retweeting stuff that's critical of the BBC and government.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

She is a labour politician tbf

 

[ddraig]

"Sorry no commentary but here's the best action"

 

[two sheds]

I turned off

 

[WhyLikeThis]

This is quite ghostly.

 

[Bingoman]

Feels weird without the commentary

 

[Dystopiary]

She is a labour politician tbf

Oh yeah. FFS at self. (And at Bakewell, frankly.)

 

[Bingoman]

Anyone watching GB news attempt at the alternative motd

Very cringy indeed

 

[two sheds]

they got Partridge hosting?

 

[Nine Bob Note]

they got Partridge hosting?

Back of the net

 

[two sheds]

No that's Shearer isn't it?

 

[pbsmooth]

Gary Lineker: BBC boss Tim Davie 'sorry' after sport disruption in Lineker row

Football coverage was severely impacted by a staff walk-out in support of the Match of the Day host.

www.bbc.co.uk

Sniff of back peddling.

So they will change the rules for him and then back to normal. Stupid twat Davie is. Just a load of terrible press and then a climbdown.

 

[WouldBe]

Feels weird without the commentary

Someone should have done a commentary along the lines of

"And Lineker passes to Lineker who chips it over the head of Lineker the goalkeeper into the back of the net" etc

 

[The39thStep]

I turned off

I don't think I have ever seen a programme rendered into such a meaningless pile of shite as that edition of MotD. Well done to BBC employers and players who refused to have anything to do with MotD in support of Lineker.

 

[savoloysam]

I haven't watched motd since West brom were always shown last. Tonight will be no different.

 

[The39thStep]

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

This two smarmy pennyworth bigot is a Procurement Category Manager at London Borough of Lambeth and boyfriend of Tory MP Elliot Colburn. Colburn claimed £236,000 last year in expenses, on top of his £82,000 salary.

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[Wilf]

Feels weird without the commentary

In Covid, it was commentary without fans, now it's fans without commentary.

 

[mauvais]

Now some bellend's leaked internal engineering Slack posts about it to The Times. Nowhere is safe from the panopticon of self-own.

 

[Raheem]

Anyone watching GB news attempt at the alternative motd

Very cringy indeed

"Someone's thrown a banana onto the pitch! Well, you can understand their point."

 

[zahir]

Sunday Times report

‘We’ve gone full W1A’: how Gary Lineker sparked 24 hours of BBC chaos

archived 11 Mar 2023 20:57:06 UTC

archive.ph

The unhappiness was broader than sport, though. Leaked posts on the BBC’s Slack messenger system showed news staff were mutinous. One dubbed it “disgraceful cowardice from leadership”, another said “I’m starting to think there is little point in working here anymore”, and a third said “Richard Sharp — all good; Gary Lineker calling out racism and fascism — outrage.” A fourth asked: “Who has more integrity, a banana republic or the BBC?” A radio presenter put this in a wider context: “What you are watching is the pent-up anger of an entire organisation, channelling through this incident.” It is already a spring of discontent at the BBC: on Wednesday, staff will walk out over cuts to local radio, in a strike that will coincide with the spring budget.

 

[keybored]

He's basically got an umbrella company like many of us mere mortal freelancers. So I guess he submits timesheets (lol) like the rest of us. He flogs his services all over the show and does very well out of it. I also dont think for a minute he's stupid enough to have made those tweets without a bit of consideration.

He has his own companies to invoice through, no way is he going through an umbrella.