Match of the Day pundit Ian Wright has said he is ‘gone’ if the BBC sack Gary Lineker over his comments about the government’s newly announced, controversial migrant policy.
But the BBC’s statement yesterday wrote: ‘Gary Lineker to step back from presenting Match of the Day until agreement reached on social media use’.
A BBC spokesperson said: ‘The BBC has been in extensive discussions with Gary and his team in recent days. We have said that we consider his recent social media activity to be a breach of our guidelines.’have since spoken out in support of the TV personality, the most recent of which is Ian Wright, 59.Match of the Day, with the network now confirming the show would ‘focus on match action without presentation or punditry.’Wright said he would be ‘gone’ if Lineker was sacked.
Wright went on to say ‘they didn’t just start throwing people into concentration camps, it starts with words and language’.
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