Gary Lineker and Hamas

[Four Litre]

Surely Lineker is in for the chop now. After tweeting that Israel should be boycotted from football, his tweet has been picked up on by Hamas and been retweeted. For the 'impartial' bbc, surely this has got to be where gary jumps the shark and there's no going back.

Maybe presenting for the new arab league would be more up his street?


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12967175/...

[sugerbear]

Summary of the article.

Daily Mail says "sack Gary Lineker" for the 9,000,000 time.

[Dingu]

The obsession with someone’s views is tragic.

[Jasandjules]

Freedom of speech much apply to views you do not agree with as well as those you do.

[Four Litre]

I fully agree, however I doubt your employer would.

Jasandjules said:

Freedom of speech much apply to views you do not agree with as well as those you do.

[Dingu]

Four Litre said:

I fully agree, however I doubt your employer would.

Jasandjules said:

Freedom of speech much apply to views you do not agree with as well as those you do.

What he has said isn’t even that controversial. If you are more angry about his tweet than thousands of dead civilians including children on BOTH sides then you need to rethink your priorities.

Or is this yet another bash the BBC bore fest? Probably thinking about it. Grr BBC grr.

[Quhet]

I don't understand why some people get so worked up about Gary fking Lineker. Just ignore him if you don't agree with him!

[cheesejunkie]

sugerbear said:

Summary of the article.

Daily Mail says "sack Gary Lineker" for the 9,000,000 time.

fker refused to come out of the packet in my panini stickers in the 80's and played for Everton! Burn him!

Rather annoyingly it appears he's a decent person despite playing for Everton.

[Bonefish Blues]

Quhet said:

I don't understand why some people get so worked up about Gary fking Lineker. Just ignore him if you don't agree with him!

I don't understand the phenomenon that is Gary Lineker either.

Influential via his 'The Rest Is' stable though.

[President Merkin]

The boring right - Oi Lineker, stick to football.


Lineker sticks to football, The right - Sack him.

Unappeasable wkers. Nothing is ever enough for them.

[Pistom]

He used to be a footballer didn't he?

[LordLoveLength]

Finished playing football 30 years ago.
In Japan.

Why the BBC think he is relevant to today’s football audience is a mystery - half of them won’t have even been born!

This is just the latest in a series of gaffes - no call for Russia to be banned, or Syria, or China etc etc.
Happy to take money from Qatar.

He needs to spend some of his overpaid salary to someone to manage his PR as he can’t, and I can’t see the BBC being keen on renewing his contract when it expires.

[g4ry13]

Pistom said:

He used to be a footballer didn't he?

I thought he was the crisp man.

[sugerbear]

LordLoveLength said:

Finished playing football 30 years ago.
In Japan.

Why the BBC think he is relevant to today’s football audience is a mystery - half of them won’t have even been born!

This is just the latest in a series of gaffes - no call for Russia to be banned, or Syria, or China etc etc.
Happy to take money from Qatar.

He needs to spend some of his overpaid salary to someone to manage his PR as he can’t, and I can’t see the BBC being keen on renewing his contract when it expires.

When his contract expires I hope that they replace him with Alex Scott and pay her double his salary.

[Randy Winkman]

LordLoveLength said:

Finished playing football 30 years ago.
In Japan.

Why the BBC think he is relevant to today’s football audience is a mystery - half of them won’t have even been born!

Isn't that the same for lots of the experts on other Tv channels though?

[Quhet]

LordLoveLength said:

Finished playing football 30 years ago.
In Japan.

Why the BBC think he is relevant to today’s football audience is a mystery - half of them won’t have even been born!

Did you think the same of Des Lynham?

Lineker is fking good at his job which is why he's presenting MOTD.

[cheesejunkie]

Pistom said:

He used to be a footballer didn't he?

Goal mucher.

I can understand why some don't like him. Believe me I do.

But if you're going to read Daily Mail headlines uncritically you have larger problems in life.

Lineker can be a bit overly worthy and silly at times but those out to demonise him seem worse to me. They just look like a bunch of people who think there should be no contrarian views to their own and will pathetically try and ruin a man's career if they can. I'm glad he's not afraid of the attack dogs and bots even if I don't agree with everything he says.

[thegreenhell]

Four Litre said:

I fully agree, however I doubt your employer would.

Jasandjules said:

Freedom of speech much apply to views you do not agree with as well as those you do.

BBC issued new guidelines for presenters last year after one of his other tweets caused a big row. These allow for freedom of expression on social media except on matters of party politics, which this isn't.

[fido]

When even Hamas are re-tweeting it's time for the BBC to terminate the contract. He will then have more time to write for the Guardian, Independent or Hamas News.

[LordLoveLength]

Quhet said:

LordLoveLength said:

Finished playing football 30 years ago.
In Japan.

Why the BBC think he is relevant to today’s football audience is a mystery - half of them won’t have even been born!

Did you think the same of Des Lynham?

Lineker is fking good at his job which is why he's presenting MOTD.

I think the presenter should be relevant to the audience - his time has been.

Especially when the media narrative is increasingly about him making political points on social media against his employers social media policy (which applies to all their employees). A policy he has previously agreed to, with special dispensation to allow him have his posts approved which he has then ignored.

This is overshadowing his presentation ability. It’s a lot easier for the BBC to replace him rather than firefighting his inability to use social media as his contract states.