The Match Of The Day host - who was reinstated on Monday - tweeted a screenshot of a private message sent by a user describing his eldest son, George, as a 'mug' who needed to be 'burned at the stake' for defending his father
Gary Lineker - who was reinstated as the Match Of The Day host on Monday - tweets a screenshot of a private message sent by a Twitter user describing his son, George, as a"mug" who needed to be"burned at the stake" for defending his father.Gary Lineker has challenged Twitter boss Elon Musk over a threatening message sent to his son in the wake of the TV presenter's row with the BBC.
The Match Of The Day host - who was reinstated on Monday - tweeted a screenshot of a private message sent by a user describing his eldest son, George, as a"mug" who needed to be"burned at the stake" for defending his father.Earlier in the day, George had tweeted:"Social media's mad isn't it. Over the last few days, on insta - never had so many nice messages. On Twitter - never had so much abuse.for his tweets criticising the government's migration policy.
The 62-year-old has also thanked his fellow presenters and pundits for their"remarkable show of solidarity" after a number pulled out of BBC shows at the weekend. In response to his father's messages, George tweeted a goat emoji - often used to signify G.O.A.T, meaning Greatest Of All Time for sportspeople. He later wrote:"Nice work Gaz."
Lineker was taken off air for a tweet comparing the language used to launch a new government asylum seeker policy with that of 1930s Nazi Germany.
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