Gary Lineker to step back from presenting Match of the Day

I think he only ever soiled himself once on the football pitch but he seemed to suffer from copremisis every time he is on TV

Ian Wright is on numerous channels all over the world,he won't need to go down the local food bank with some TV license tax payers tomorrow evening.. if wright had played for spurs or Chelsea you would have hated him

I take your point about how boring many of the pundits are. Steven Warnock is another, so long-winded and dull that he's almost impossible to listen to. I guess I've got to the stage where I don't want to hear presenters or pundits at all. They add little or nothing of any value as far as I'm concerned. MOTD should show far more of the action, and less of these overpaid tw@ts, and their "expert contributions"

and how do you know that exactly KIW ?

if Wright was a bore who offered nothing then your point may seem plausible, but he is the opposite of wooden, has a personality, is clearly authentic and has good banter with the likes of Shearer. He's self made and comes from nothing working on building sites and whatnot so making him look guilty for not needing food banks is stupid. His wealth came from football, license fee money hasn't enriched him and whatever the BBC pay him is chickenfeed to what he earned as a player.

I am not his biggest fan off TV but I actually think he's a really decent presenter.

Id love to know why hes been pushed when hes calling out nazis?

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Id love to know why hes been pushed when hes calling out nazis?

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If you saw the doc on Ian too you'd see he had one hell of a different childhood to others, and has come out on top. Great lad.

This was the lead story on the 18.00 BBC news.

You've got to laugh really, as if there isn't rather more important issues going on in our world than this farce.

who gives a monkeys they are all millionaires who dont give a fick about anything but themselves,

mans a **** who left his wife and 4 kids -one really ill for some glam **** and fame.

mans a total knob and its pathetic that he is now on a defend the poor agenda

motd has been finished from a long time now apart from ian wright

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I suppose this is a prime example of what separates us from The Russian or Chinese model of freedom of speech.
In either of these regimes if you speak out about and criticise the ruling elite and their shocking standards you lose your liberty, over here you just lose your livelihood.
The significant thing here is that Lineker was supposedly right to stand out against the lgbt+trannys rule bowlucks at the World Cup and go on about it ad infinitum but wrong to voice an opinion on the British approach to small boats - where people die.
What a lovely world we are creating.

"Hopefully match of the day will go back to been about football instead of politics, maybe one day English football will do the same"


Yeah sick to death of all this clapping and silence for depressing non-football tragedies around the world. Don't people go to football for entertaining escape from the world ? No wonder mental problems on the rise.

No need for match of the day. Always see the goals on the Sky App and the extended highlights on the club website before MOTD starts.

made his money, must've known he was getting thrown out the door when he started tweeting - no surprise if he already had something more lucrative lined up when he started typing. 

Shearer and Wright walked out, Gabby Logan probably do it if they up her from £200k to something nearer what Gary was on.

Motd to go ahead with highlights only

No pundits or studio

Its how it should be

Do they really need 3 pundits and a presenter and all that air time to show a game thats already finished?

Its a total waste of money

bad night for whoever's been making up linekers end of show witticisms. 

fairly niche market.

Motd to go ahead with highlights only

No pundits or studio

Thank Kriist for that! been hoping for this for years. Might be able to watch it now.

The football is what people want to see and that stays the same no matter who is or isn't presenting.  Lineker, or indeed any presenter, brings nothing to the programme.  People don't tune in to hear a pundit's opinion; they just want to see the match action.  Why the BBC feel the need to hold on to Lineker at a salary way above what others at the corporation earn is a mystery.  Ken Bruce was pulling in over 8 million listeners yet Lineker's being paid nearly a million more.  For what?  To say Hello, welcome to MOTD.  Here's the game.  Wasn't that a good goal?  AI could do that.

Ratings will be sure to increase without having listen to these boring coonts.

There's better fan pundits on youtube than these gravy slurpers.

Who still watches MOTD?? Probably the ones who still bet pre- race

They should scrap this carp - would be hilarious.
Most fans only ever want to see highlights without these opinionated coonts.
Highlights usually appear on youtube not long after the final whistle

Betfair snob alert - two posts back.

I'll be watching MoTD for the 1st time for a very long while. I'd not stand the smugness of Mr Lineker (little presenter talent/massive luck), and Mr Wright (another with little presenter/pundit talent/massive luck). To be honest I've always preferred lesser punditry to more football footage.

Let's hope lesser punditry is here to stay fortuitously.

The boy Line Acre £1.5 million

Rwandan politicians £120 million

President Macron £500 million

Yep!

when i was a kid i wanted to hear what assumed experts thought of team/individual player performances as i wanted to learn from someone who was seeing something more than me and i am sure there are plenty of kids now doing the same so having no presenter or discussion after the match streams is a disappointment even when i understand that more established fans don't need that same information....lineker should watch jeff stelling and refocus on whats important...football...if this is a temporary ban....

The BBC took no action against Clarkson till he assaulted a producer.
They also have a chairman who acted as a loan-broker for Boris.
Yep it's a truly impartial organisation.   

its not really about the bbc though is it....its about an individual who believes he has more authority than those that employ him by blatantly flouting regulations in the inflated opinion they dont relate to him....as i said above for many of the younger fans who may not be able to go to matches or have sky sports its has damaged a programme that has been a staple part of the football community....

I think many may be pleasantly surprised if they just show the matches on Match Of The Day tonight.......I for only watch them and fast forward through the dull and box ticking overpaid presenters and pundits..........they are not needed , save the BBC a fortune and get rid of them all.

Refs getting ready to have it off on VAR today.

What minute does Bournemouth get stitched?

I wish Clare Balding would say something political, she's the new front woman for Wimbledon this year ffs.

No BBC radio commentaries today
Can i have a refund on my license?

Have to say I don't disagree with what Lineker said tbf. Comparing current government policy statements to the language in Germany the 1930s, always going to cause controversy though. But can't help thinking that maybe he is orchestrating a move away from the Beeb and will resurface on BT Sports earning twice as much (nap).

Who needs anyone telling us what we've already been watching ?.
They've all walked out, if the BBC Threaten to sack them all, lets see if they continue to
support the virtue signalling champagne socialist Pr1 ck.

They show 5 minutes of match highlights then you get 5 minutes of the pundits telling you what you already know, I fast forward through all this waffle. It's painful

Is this why no football focus too

yes alex scott has come out in support as have virtually all other presenters for final score etc....

And all because a number of people were "offended".  To use a favourite word of the moment.

The boil has been lanced and the pus is draining out.  None of them are essential to their genre.  You can't have a film without actors but you can have sport without people on the sidelines waffling about it.

Lineker is standing up for the poor refugee/migrant...these people are taken in maybe a hotel or likewise and given everything they need...FREE! Whilst the British homeless and needy starve and freeze!
Lineker ok with this is he ?
The governments actions they believe represents the feelings of the majority of British people...Look after our own before refugee's/migrants etc...Lineker obviously does not give a to$$ for the poor British people struggling... afterall why should he, he has everything and more.

Purely from a punting point of view, could Lineker be a SPOTY candidate?

Would be a delicious squirming view all around, though

The future of the BBC should be easy to secure, all that is needed is to be impartial. Just report the facts real journalism  not the views of political activists. The left have learned an hard truth this week either we all have a voice or no one has a voice. Better people have been deplatformed for whole lot less

You can have as much as you want at 1000 on lineker
to win spoty.

I’m Gary Lineker

If there is a presenter on MOTD tonight .... his end of show joke could be :-

"Billing sinks Liverpool ..... but Gary won't be billing the BBC this weekend"

Who ALEX SCOTT?

Mar 11, 2023 -- 2:42PM, mecca wrote:

If there is a presenter on MOTD tonight .... his end of show joke could be :-"Billing sinks Liverpool ..... but Gary won't be billing the BBC this weekend"

Salah wide of the mark, like the governments immigration policy

I hope they sack Lineker & everyone who is joining the boycott with immediate effect!

Mar 11, 2023 -- 4:23PM, jinxy wrote:

I hope they sack Lineker & everyone who is joining the boycott with immediate effect!

Hear Hear Jinxy

had to laugh at Jenas pulling out, he must have turned around and looked out the window after he tweeted that, it was the sound of cheers from football fans the country over Jermaine, Kind Regards.

If Gary cares so much, why not take in half a dozen of those fine young men coming over illegally on the boats, plenty of room is mansion. They could keep his wife company whilst he's at work

The migrants will be presenting motd next season.

Why don't they get some AI programme to do the punditry?

Can't be anymore boring than that c**t Shearer.

Absolutely staggering to read Alex Scott gets 195k per year?!?!?!?

Thats absolutely insane.

Well the forum appears to fully support the BBC decision. Could be a first but any port in a storm!

Bollox, the BBC needs a good clean out starting with the self righteous **** that is Lineker.

Alex Scott was a world class player who played for Arsenal for 10 years and was capped 140 times by England, I would say she is underpaid by the BBC, there's a sexism case there for her if she wants it.

In 2012, Lineker, he was forced to pay £4.9 million in back taxes after being found to have used a tax avoidance scheme. Lineker has stated that he regrets using the scheme and has since taken steps to ensure that he pays his fair share of tax.

Two faced stinking woke tw@t should have been sacked years ago.

Tonites show will only be
20 minItes LONG

Cut all the crap out and about 20 minutes football is about all we ever got from MOTD. Who the ferk needs wokie tax avoider Lineker and co?

HMRC went after the talksport presenter Paul Hawskbee who was forced to pay 140k, plenty of butter wouldn't melt celebs try to avoid tax, such as Gary Barlow.

20 minutes of highlights and 1 hour of pointless drivel

Cloughie was right... he’ll be looking down with a smile

I like the banter between Shearer and Wright, far far worse pundits out there.

Mar 11, 2023 -- 6:37PM, ImSoLuckyLucky! wrote:

Tonites show will only be20 minItes LONG

15 minutes of that will be the games shown live today

The migrants will be presenting motd next season.   

Best motd for a long time ,no drivel and endless backslapping.

Agreed liked the format. Nice to be able to watch the program without feeling the P was being taken-out of the licence payers.

Great programme. Saw the matches just as you would in a stadium. Thats what spectators pay for and enjoy. If you had Linekar or Wright sat next to you at a game nattering on wouldn't you move seats ? I would.

I thought it was a s***, missing the theme music, a bit of banter, caning the refs for decisions when deserved etc, nobody is going to watch it like this in the long run, maybe a few weeks as novelty, but why would they bother when it's all instant and free on youtube from Sky, BT, the Premier League's and clubs own channels, the selling point of MOTD is that it offers something different.

fantastic tonight. no milking it. show the highlights and end it. makes time for a movie before midnight.

no faux outrage at some ref decision.
no banter for 7yo morons

what a miserable prick you are

Superb motd. They should do that every week.

How refreshing was that. No mindless drivel from the commentators trying to sensationalise every factoid they have managed to uncover. No Lineker plus two or three ex -players not saying exactly what they think at the licence payers extent. I hope tomorrow is the same avoiding Micah Richards and Danny Murphy saying time and time again time and time again. Come on BBC sack the f-ing lot of them and give us back a chunk of licence fee to heat our homes. I won't get me coat I'm already wearing it.

Team Gary dislike the new format

Team Suella love the new format

Simples

when the bbc get the next fa cup match they should repeat the formula....straight into the game and the auction bit from bargin hunt or flog it squeezed in at half time...........

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Fantastic stuff

Bloody awful and turned it off after 5 minutes as it was just like watching a game played in a graveyard.

You do ideally need a match commentator, not pundits talking about the highlights you've just watched. It was deliberately hollowed out, otherwise people would realise that the studio presenters and pundits are surplus to requirements.

And yes, there is a global comms as part of the PL package, it was a production decision to mute them. Wonder why.

Absolutely dreadful. The sound effects like canned laughter from 1970’s sitcoms!

Some big time liars on here!

Canned laughter and big time liars?

The programme was awful sparrow

Off the pitch football is about passion and opinion

Great news for all you posting snowflakes - you'll be able to carry on enjoying the football just by pressing "mute" after all this has blown over. Happy days!

Yes agreed whispering absolutely terrible, just wasn't sure what you had meant.

If you're a football fan, this is all you need for a highlights package.

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyS4mIFfSKQ

Obviously, a live game needs filler and a studio input, but for highlights it's perfect. No need for vastly overpaid, overrated pundits endlessly using the same five or six clichés.

No need to give Rwanda £120 million or France £500 million for nothing!

Viewing figures ^ 25%

When supporters go to watch a live game you don't have any commentary or punditry.  What's the difference?  A lot of people hit the mute button anyway depending who is on commentary or doing the punditry

We had the option of games without commentary along with sound options during Covid and I preferred the silence with players being heard rather than the canned crowd noise…..don’t really understand the graveyard comments……

Casuals benefit from a live call, but that's all that was missing.

It's really an indictment on society in 2023 that the GL nonsense has become a proxy war between the middle class supercilious people taking the taxpayer coin via the BBC and 'superior media' lifetime twatter types who couldn't actually give a shyte about MoTD, and never watch it but see GL as their totem, vs the working classes who are absolutely fed up with being force fed wokedom and liberalism.

This show only gets 2 million viewers a week, even though it's presented by the BBC's multi million pound 'flagship' presenter.

It's time the BBC & LinAKer are both kicked in to touch.  Stop the TV Licence payments

That will be the best thing to come out of this. I've no doubt that the vocal hypocrites on twatter and media will get their way in the end, but hopefully more people will ditch paying the tv tax.

2.6million viewers, 2nd biggest audience of the day on BBC1. (For comparison, previous 2 editions watched by 2.1m & 2m, much longer programmes of course)

People worried about tax payer money!

£220 million to Rwanda

£500 million to Macron

£37 Billion to Test, Track and Trace

It’s good to have a balanced argument.

Did the boy Line Acre break the Ministerial Code?

Lie to Parliament?

Deceive the Queen?

Break the law and lie about it?

Break his wife’s nose?

Waste £400 Billion of tax payer money?

So what did an ex footballer do that is so bad?

Yes, government wastes a lot of money. That's not news. And this justifies the tv tax? Er, no. It doesn't.

Only watched up to the Bournemouth goal (obvs) but that was like some Orwellian dystopian otherworld where talking about football was forbidden but we were all obliged to watch and hear other people enjoying it. Quite unsettling.

MotD will never be the same again, after seeing how it really is.

A few burner accounts outing themselveson here.


It'll never catch on. Despite tories telling
us how brilliant it was.

Thing is the idiots won't even know players have
names on their backs.

Yeah, bunch of desperate tryhards. Let's see how many tune in and enthuse about watching the silent football movie next week.

Scott benton mp outs himself as a non football man




Best #MatchOfTheDay episode in years.

Had all the goals in
No ‘expert’ analysis
And finished quicker than usual so I could make the pub for last orders.

HIGNFY producers hoping BBC don’t find out that Ian Hislop also edits a satirical magazine occasionally critical of government policy.