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Lineker To Step Back From Presenting Match Of The Day
...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.
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Bet he is feeling less cocky now. No doubt he still gets paid. Time will tell if his principles or ego win the day.
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Surely no one listens to the presenters & punfits anyway.
If one wishes to watch a match one tunes in just before kick off, makes tea/coffee during half time, an switches channel when the match finishes. Similarly for any highlight type programme, there's always a crossword or sudoku to do during any jabber.
Given that neither side is going to want to climb down, maybe just showing the game is a workable format for the immediate future. (And some ridiculously high salaries saved in the process.)
If one wishes to watch a match one tunes in just before kick off, makes tea/coffee during half time, an switches channel when the match finishes. Similarly for any highlight type programme, there's always a crossword or sudoku to do during any jabber.
Given that neither side is going to want to climb down, maybe just showing the game is a workable format for the immediate future. (And some ridiculously high salaries saved in the process.)
If it does go ahead without pundits, that would be great. It's what I've wanted for years. It's just a question of how much of each game we we'll get to see. I suppose the BBC is contracted to only show a few minutes from each game, so instead of paying more for more football, it used that money to pay for useless has-beens.
I don't know for sure, but I think MOTD decided to be a bit different from the frankly rather dull Sky highlights programmes.
When you do a live game there are lots of spaces to fill in - eg half time - and many people like the build-up and the post match analysis. I know I do: if it wasn't popular then they wouldn't do it.
MOTD as far as I know is the only programme of its kind and therefore fills a gap.
The "no presenter" format will hopefully be shortlived and is presumably the best option gived they'd have struggled to get anyone to do it this weekend.
The whole thing is a monumental fuss about next to nothing, woefully handles by the BBC and the govt.
I don't know if Gary is due on BT Sport this weekend. I think he only does midweek ...
When you do a live game there are lots of spaces to fill in - eg half time - and many people like the build-up and the post match analysis. I know I do: if it wasn't popular then they wouldn't do it.
MOTD as far as I know is the only programme of its kind and therefore fills a gap.
The "no presenter" format will hopefully be shortlived and is presumably the best option gived they'd have struggled to get anyone to do it this weekend.
The whole thing is a monumental fuss about next to nothing, woefully handles by the BBC and the govt.
I don't know if Gary is due on BT Sport this weekend. I think he only does midweek ...
ROY, why am I dumb when you're the one making the ridiculous claim?
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I didn't say you were dumb.
Minor school incident involving a copy of a book...an inanimate collection of pieces of paper containing mostly nonsense. Shouldn't have gone further than...well, actually it shouldn't have gone anywhere.
Yet it ended with a trial by a local Muslim Councillor and a Muslim community leader (what ever one of those happen to be)
The police and school teachers accepting and nodding approval. The boy's mother sat on the extremes (where women apparently belong) no eye contact from the all powerful, just referenced to as if she weren't there. I think all this happened in the mosque, not the police station or the school.
You call it what you want but to me this was a sharia kangaroo court.
I wonder if the boy is back at school or is he still in hiding like the school teacher who received death threats?
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I didn't say you were dumb.
Minor school incident involving a copy of a book...an inanimate collection of pieces of paper containing mostly nonsense. Shouldn't have gone further than...well, actually it shouldn't have gone anywhere.
Yet it ended with a trial by a local Muslim Councillor and a Muslim community leader (what ever one of those happen to be)
The police and school teachers accepting and nodding approval. The boy's mother sat on the extremes (where women apparently belong) no eye contact from the all powerful, just referenced to as if she weren't there. I think all this happened in the mosque, not the police station or the school.
You call it what you want but to me this was a sharia kangaroo court.
I wonder if the boy is back at school or is he still in hiding like the school teacher who received death threats?
This just popped up on Facebook:
"Lidl's history goes back to the 1930s, when the company was founded in Germany as a grocery wholesaler. Today, Lidl is one of the largest grocery retailers in Europe."
I wonder if this is what Lineker was referring to and it's all been a misunderstanding that we'll laugh about soon.
"Lidl's history goes back to the 1930s, when the company was founded in Germany as a grocery wholesaler. Today, Lidl is one of the largest grocery retailers in Europe."
I wonder if this is what Lineker was referring to and it's all been a misunderstanding that we'll laugh about soon.
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