Will Gary Lineker be presenting Motd on Saturday?

[Ax^]

Lineker can go any time he likes, sooner the better. He is paid over a million quid of extorted money, to talk shit about football. This is obscene.

oh sas will you read a room and STFU

 

[8ball]

Lineker can go any time he likes, sooner the better. He is paid over a million quid of extorted money, to talk shit about football. This is obscene.

And he gets free crisps!

 

[Ax^]

*fist at the BBC

 

[littlebabyjesus]

"It's been a weekend of incredible come backs... and that's just the presenters... And as for own goals - we better not comment " etc

It won't be as direct as this. It would need plausible deniability. And I'd prefer it if he chose to made an inclusive comment that could be taken to be about refugees.

 

[danny la rouge]

Lineker can go any time he likes, sooner the better. He is paid over a million quid of extorted money, to talk shit about football. This is obscene.

It’s not about football. I wouldn’t be interested if it was. It’s about the inhuman scapegoating of vulnerable people in abject misery by a government that thinks it’s riding a populist wave of xenophobia.

 

[maomao]

Mark Chapman has apparently said no but I think that's because he's still in prison for shooting John Lennon.

 

[Bingoman]

Micah Richards will not appear tomorrow either

 

[steveo87]

Chappers had better not!

 

[Rebelda]

This is so great to watch unfold

 

[danny la rouge]

We’ve long ago dipped below the “people a person not interested in football has heard of” level. So that can only be a positive thing.

 

[Bingoman]

Motd could be interesting tomorrow night then

 

[Lord Camomile]

Wouldn't be surprised if it ends up just being a straight VT package, with no presenter or pundits at all.

That said, also wouldn't surprise me if someone wriggled out to jump on this opportunity.

 

[Orang Utan]

Micah Richards will not appear tomorrow either

I have never seen him on telly but I work with his Aunt. She’s lovely so I’m sure this fella is too.

 

[Lord Camomile]

And what's the betting if this "we'll u-turn if you want us to" government try to claw this back, then some middle-manager at the BBC will be the one to take the blame?

 

[steveo87]

Wouldn't be surprised if it ends up just being a straight VT package, with no presenter or pundits at all.

That said, also wouldn't surprise me if someone wriggled out to jump on this opportunity.

One of the TalkSport will Jump at the chance.

 

[Rebelda]

They'd find someone desperate enough, easy. If I was a betting woman I'd put money on it being "resolved" overnight though. Gary back, with or without his trousers remains to be seen.

 

[spitfire]

 

[Mumbles274]

Would be really good if footballers could come up with some sort of show of solidarity too. Imagine every premiership team taking a knee for refugees. How can that be made to happen, that's a twitter..." Do your thing?"

 

[domestos]

My money is on Winkleman and Daly, it's only a modest pay rise for the license fee payers and they're not doing their awkward unfunny dialogues at the mo. Winkleman is of good heritage to for the new Rightest BBC as well

 

[bimble]

this has cheered me up a lot. maybe fascism will be defeated by a collection of retired footballers (or whoever these people are I only know the name of the crisps seller) why not. Lovely stuff.

 

[Orang Utan]

Would be really good if footballers could come up with some sort of show of solidarity too. Imagine every premiership team taking a knee for refugees. How can that be made to happen, that's a twitter..." Do your thing?"

I think it would be more effective if other BBC presenters and staff took a stand too.
I notice Michel Roux Jr showing his support on Twitter in his reply to Ian Wright

 

[8ball]

My money is on Winkleman and Daly, it's only a modest pay rise for the license fee payers and they're not doing their awkward unfunny dialogues at the mo. Winkleman is of good heritage to for the new Rightest BBC as well

Claudia's a right-winger?

 

[Mumbles274]

I think it would be more effective if other BBC presenters and staff took a stand too.
I notice Michel Roux Jr showing his support on Twitter in his reply to Ian Wright

Yes, of course, good point

 

[Bingoman]

Claudia's a right-winger?

How do you know?

 

[Orang Utan]

Claudia's a right-winger?

She’s weird af. She claims to never drink water.

 

[Looby]

I would have put money on Dan Walker doing it if he was still with the BBC.

 

[8ball]

How do you know?

Who knows?

 

[bimble]

Winkleman is of good heritage to for the new Rightest BBC as well

 

[Lord Camomile]

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Am I right in thinking that's the BBC's own live reporting of the situation?

I mean, fuck it, I hate what they've become at the moment, but still not sure how many media outlets would live text their own seppuku

 

[Sasaferrato]

It’s not about football. I wouldn’t be interested if it was. It’s about the inhuman scapegoating of vulnerable people in abject misery by a government that thinks it’s riding a populist wave of xenophobia.

I do not give a fuck what he said. What I do object to is his salary, which is utterly obscene. I'll bet there are people on these boards who could do what Lineker does equally well, if not better.

If danny la rouge 's dig about football support was aimed at me, well I've been a Hearts fan since 1968, which is really more suffering than any person should be put through.