Lineker To Step Back From Presenting Match Of The Day

[choux]

...until an agreement is reached on his social media use, the BBC has said.

Bet he is feeling less cocky now. No doubt he still gets paid. Time will tell if his principles or ego win the day.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64920557

[maggiebee]

Just read that BT Sport want GL to present the Premier League matches.

[bobbinwales]

Good. i dont have B T .

[jourdain2]

Hip, Hip HOORAY!

[jourdain2]

^^^^
That is re. OP.

[THECORBYLOON]

BOB, you're not currently forced to watch him on the BBC, are you?

[maggiebee]

Doubt if he's short of a bob or two

[New Judge]

//BOB, you're not currently forced to watch him on the BBC, are you?//

Probably not. But if he wants to watch anything else on the telly he is forced to contribute towards his salary.

[THECORBYLOON]

NJ, why is the cost of the licence fee relevant to watching Gary Lineker or no?

[drmorgans]

The cost is about 5p per household

[New Judge]

//NJ, why is the cost of the licence fee relevant to watching Gary Lineker or no?//

I didn't say it was, Corby. I'm simply illustrating that whether Bob watches GL or not, he is forced to contribute to his pay if he wants to watch anything else broadcast live. The BBC has a guaranteed income stream whether anybody watches its output or not and it uses that income to pay ludicrous salaries to people of mediocre talent. I'm not criticising the recipients of those salaries - I always admire anybody who can secure good money - especially if they are fairly talentless. I'm criticising the BBC for shelling it out.

[andy-hughes]

The BBC is a slave to the mantra of a lot of big organisations who bleat that they 'have to pay the highest salaries to attract the best talent', even when it is crystal clear to everyone apart from them, that 'the best talent' is a matter of opinion, and although presenting television is a skill, it's not so rare a skill that you can only get people good enough to do it if you shell out eight figures of someone else's money.

[choux]

That was a first for MOTD. I watched it and enjoyed the highlights. Everyone else still alive? Jolly good. The sun will rise again tomorrow. Sweet dreams and don't have nightmares :)

[THECORBYLOON]

Who on UK TV is receiving at least £10 million each year?

[Zacs-Master]

‘ it's not so rare a skill that you can only get people good enough to do it if you shell out eight figures of someone else's money’

Indeed. One only has to watch Robbie Savage and co describing games on BT sport to appreciate that. What a shambles.

[ichkeria]

Tim Davie currently being asked if he would have taken Lineker off air if he’d tweeted in support if the govt and again the question is dodged.
I think Davie is a decent man out of his depth

[theshedman]

I watched MOTD last night and must admit I enjoyed it without all the opinions given by Lineker and co on what each team did wrong. I could see for myself and make up my own mind.

[bobbinwales]

Er I do watch Lineker on Motd ...but thats because I like the program overall. Its the only chanel I got that has a similar program with analyisis. Linekers good but if his happy to go elsewhere then am sure there's someone else who will do it well when all this has died down

[bobbinwales]

Lineker had been warned before so knew the risk but still felt he was too big to be silenced.
He should have his free speech on twitter but should stick to his contract too.
But the BBC is in amess its been inconsistent with others and needs to make its rules clearer

[ichkeria]

There is more chance of Lineker leaving than being permanently removed. Tim Davie knows it and so does everyone else.
As for MOTD: it wouldn’t survive as a 20 min uncommentated and unpundited interlude. Everyone who’s a genuine football fan rather than someone claiming to watch it for the first time in decades will probably have seen most of it already.
The jug-eared Edwin Poots of the DUP, who was once first minister of NI for barely longer than last nights MOTD, boasted that he was one of the above.
Someone asked him if he used to be the FA Cup :-)

[ichkeria]

Before the corrections start rolling in (!) Poots was leader of the DUP for a couple of weeks. Not FM