10 Mar 2023 22:17:30
Even if we score 8 tomorrow, I will not be watching MOTD.

1.) 11 Mar 2023
10 Mar 2023 23:40:38
There's going to be nothing to watch anyway. The MOTD commentators have walked now.

2.) 11 Mar 2023
10 Mar 2023 23:47:49
Yeah, yeah! Everyone will be tuning in, especially now we don't have to the hear the dross from the so called pundits they have on the show, this may be a blessing in disguise.

3.) 11 Mar 2023
10 Mar 2023 23:48:20
Hopefully everyone boycotts your thread so we can keep politics off of a football forum.

4.) 11 Mar 2023
10 Mar 2023 23:53:38
Good too see the other pundits and now the commentators are making a stand.

5.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 02:07:09
It’s just a shame that he has made a mockery out of a very serious situation with his continued spouting his mouth off on twitter. Him and his brother are hardly the brightest and why anyone would listen to what he says is beyond me. He can of course voice his opinion

6.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 05:41:25
Problem is, St8talker, he can’t voice his opinion unless it aligns with his employers’ opinion. Not if he wants to keep his job anyhow.

7.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 06:02:02
Only scabs are watching MOTD today.

8.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 06:11:22
Gin, if I've read things correctly, the issue is more about him being told not to express an opinion, at all, regardless of whether it aligns with his employers' or not. Complex issue with key implications. Not a good idea to pursue it on football forum.

9.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 07:17:59
Everton are taking it v seriously, they say there boycotting match of the day next season.

10.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 08:05:14
Only if they get promoted, Digger.

11.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 08:14:37
He made a ridiculous statement as per usual and showed himself up. Good riddance.

12.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 08:21:35
That’s a pretty low sighted view of the original posters comment there MK - it is related to football and pretty embarrassing to say that.

13.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 08:32:53
@Str8talker, so only people you agree with are entitled to an opinion?

When’s your job interview at the Beeb?

14.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 09:01:20
Sorry, what happened here?

15.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 09:04:51
MK I wish it was that simple, if it was F the tories wouldn’t be sung on the terraces.

16.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 09:14:33
I think his comment was totally valid.

17.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 09:26:00
Oli, something about him regularly posting about the UK's change in migration policies on his social media. And the BBC pulling him off of MOTD because of the views he has expressed. Politics as usual.

18.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 09:40:49
What if you wholeheartedly disagree with what the virtue signalling big mouth said, are u allowed to watch highlights without being a scab as u put it?

19.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 10:14:58
it’s gathering momentum, wonder if we will be able to pull out of the license fee instead of a Bosman we can have a lineker.

20.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 10:20:50
Thing is he was 100% right. Weird situation he's in though given the now head of BBC was involved in a loan scandal thing with Boris. Awk it's a shame cos it's a serious issue now being made light of

Was his personal opinion, agree with it or not. He didn't articulate it on MOTD, which would not have been the place, probably like here tbh but here we are - will be interesting to see how it turns out, but hey lads this is a banter site so let's not argue over our political viewpoints - let's just hope we get another 3 points today!

21.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 10:30:02
The issue is he said mean things about the Tories lads. It's as simple as that.

Impartiality me arse.

22.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 10:43:46
AlRy, people can't convey their feelings fully by text. Words get twisted. Assumptions are made.

It's bad enough when that happens with football debate amongst friends. Let alone politics amongst strangers.

Should be left well alone on this forum in my opinion and I stand by it.

23.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 11:04:10
Bill, we will win. ?.

24.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 12:33:20
Totally correct MK, I come on here to read, chat, debate football and LFC. If I wanted politics I'd watch the news.

25.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 12:37:34
Reality is, no matter whether you agree with what he said or not, is that you shouldn’t be removed from the national broadcasting service for disagreeing with, or criticising, the government. Not the greatest move when disputing the comparison with 1930s Germany….

26.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 13:35:03
I just try not to watch the news. In the morning I actually turn to BBC2 to watch Antiques Roadshow rather than listen to all the negative crap spouted. I’ve done this in the main since lockdown and feel all the better for it.

Im thankful for Football, music, work and friends. Who needs moronic tweets or OTT responses in their life? Let them get on with it I say ?.

27.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 14:28:34
at least nobody will be tempted to watch MOTD today anyway
PAIN.

28.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 15:18:59
What was so ridiculous about what Lineker tweeted?
You mightn't agree with what he said but the reaction to it is ridiculous.

29.) 11 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 21:47:24
There seem to be two basic issues:

An (any) individual’s right to free speech

Censorship and the (tacit) implication of Government collusion with an “independent” organisation.

Of course the mealy-mouthed BBC with it’s ‘exceeding guidelines’ is just spurious. - if Lineker had breached his contract or had acted illegally he would have been given his P45.

Really disappointing is that the real issue has now been manipulated of the agenda with the social media fuelled ‘oh no he isn’t, oh yes he is’ pantomime. Nice work by the Government and the execution of a ‘look no hands” bit of work.

30.) 12 Mar 2023
12 Mar 2023 00:36:18
Well said, WDW.
And members of the government are out of line with their interpretations of what Lineker said.
He spoke of the language used in 1930s Germany. Anyone with an ounce of sense knows that the Nazis and the Holocaust will not be most remembered for the language for the language used in 1930s Germany.
This government since its election has been a disgrace and they want to scare us with the threat of a different race (s) . Like 1930s Germany really.
There, I said it, too.

31.) 12 Mar 2023
12 Mar 2023 09:24:04
So essentially, Lineker gave his views on immigration policy on a non football platform that did not mesh with the govt’s policy hence, he got pulled from MOTD?

Wow, so much for freedom of speech and expression when you have the govt silencing people with views that differ from their own.