The BBC

Lmao you’re cooked beeb

Gutted to hear that my good friend @GaryLineker has stepped down from @bbc he’s always had my back and I’ll always have his ! He’s a genuine, kind hearted gent ⚽️ pic.twitter.com/lLJK33EumN

— Peter Shilton (@Peter_Shilton) March 10, 2023

le tiss and david icke dream team?

Saw Clarkson backing Wright too

I know who can host MOTD tomorrow pic.twitter.com/zyRkQhHlCZ

— Jonathan Shainin (@jonathanshainin) March 10, 2023

they've really fucked it and I love it. The only options will be embarrassing climbdown or a stubborn self-owning drag-this-out to their own detriment situation. Either way they look fucking ridiculous. They've zugzwanked themselves!

You can add Dan Walker, Mark Chapman and Micah Richards to that list

— Simon (@broom_wagon) March 10, 2023

Sutton and Savage odds are shortening as we speak

political subversive Lineker has finally earned a christmas tree on his BBC "for the eyes of the MI5" file now - a sign of the times I'm afraid!

I don't think Sutton would entertain this - but Savage is just a soulless husk, anything could happen there.

https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/p1921.png

here comes the hotstepper

They could probably coax Alan Green out of retirement - provided he doesn't attack Sunak's NI Protocol deal in the interim.

Still think Shearer is a Tory ... I imagine most of them are.

I've always assumed Shearer is a Tory and even if he technically isn't one then that is some strange aberration yet to correct itself.

Shearer, Lineker, Wright etc. are part of a team that have worked together for a long time. That's my bet for what's driving it, not their politics.

this might be the most legolas gimli meme of the lot. why is kaveh of all people absolutely spitting? https://t.co/Bzl0Afb2hY

— match of the day picket line (@DAVlDBYNCH) March 10, 2023

Omg..

And here we are pic.twitter.com/7Yw7XXEed3

— Anita Singh (@anitathetweeter) March 10, 2023

So Match of the Day is to go ahead without presentation or punditry.

Might be a better watch lol

Indeed.

gonna be bad if this draws record numbers

Another pundit has ruled themselves out of Match of the Day, but WHO IS IT CHRIS KAMARA pic.twitter.com/ofkiv5IWAC

— Michael Savage (@michaelsavage) March 10, 2023

As commentators on MOTD, we have decided to step down from tomorrow night’s broadcast. We are comforted that football fans who want to watch their teams should still be able to do so, as management can use World Feed commentary if they wish.

— Steve Wilson (@Wilsonfooty) March 10, 2023

nice

was really waiting for that

Talk of players boycotting BBC post-match interviews - though I'm not sure who would interview them anyway.

What is World feed commentary, is it basic? Surely this is just YouTube highlights now

I've not heard it, but reading for Steve Wilson's tone I'd guess that the world feed is pretty basic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjp1Zrvn8VQ

So sad that this has become the story rather than the tragedy of human beings struggling to find sanctuary. Having taken in refugees himself, Gary has surely earned the right to express his opinion. https://t.co/DUPEAGc2IM

— Steve Wilson (@Wilsonfooty) March 10, 2023

Workers considering wildcat strike on MotD. Gawan. pic.twitter.com/RfTSDX4ifg

— SC Cook (@s__cook) March 10, 2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001k0p7

In the week the government introduced tough, controversial new rules on stopping illegal immigrants entering the UK, Nick Robinson talks to the home secretary, Suella Braverman, about her father's journey to Britain while fleeing persecution in Kenya, how her mum's admiration for Margaret Thatcher introduced her to the Conservative Party and how she, as the wife of a Jewish man, feels when people compare her policies with those of 1930s Germany.

radio 4 today. Braverman gets 42 minutes. impartiality...

but the documentary about rwanda scheduled for Sunday has been replaced in the last 12 hours by one about migrant children

"200 children have gone missing from hotels used by the Home Office to temporarily house lone asylum seekers.
File on 4 investigates what’s being done to find them and why so many have disappeared."

the initial story on Wild Isles was very misleading and has now been changed, with this quote now added from the BBC..

it doesn't seem like anyone is buying the bbc explanation, when they are so bad they are even trying to reduce the exposure a doddering old Malthusian (sorry I meant national treasure) talking about climate change gets. The Graun says an issue (as well as annoying the Tory govt) could be them worrying about US sales, possibly why they have come up with this fiction that the episode is somehow a separate piece to the series.

It wasn’t commissioned by the BBC in the first place

I suspect it was pitched, but not commissioned, and the production company felt so strongly about it that they found someone to pay for making it (not the BBC). In the end the BBC acquired the rights to put it on iPlayer which seems good not bad

I'm just blithely going with the crowd here and assuming because nobody else is saying this then it's not true. Or perhaps I'm reading too many tweets from 18 hours ago!

You could argue the BBC should have commissioned that sixth ep, and put it on BBC One, but that’s a different story than “BBC shelves controversial episode out of fears of Tory pushback”

yeah, think the Attenborough thing is probably not worth focusing on.

otoh

Morning all.

As you know, Final Score is a TV show very close to my heart.

However - I have this morning informed the BBC that I will not be presenting the show this afternoon on BBC One.

— Jason Mohammad (@jasonmohammad) March 11, 2023

this is getting better every day

606 next?

Please god

Good luck to GB News who have announced that they are doing an Alternative Match of the Day today programme with pundits…

… but as they don’t own any sporting rights they won’t be able to show viewers any football action or goals.

— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) March 11, 2023

Update: they are able to show viewers still photography from football games, so that’s something.

— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) March 11, 2023

i would just like to note that the Rugby Union crowd will be business as usual today

maybe they can get Bob on to draw some amusing caricatures of the action

watching a slide show of Prem games to own the libs seems live a very GB News audience thing to do

raises an interesting question about whether there's a limit on the number of photographs they can show, and how short the interval between each picture has to be

I've turned on BBC radio 5 live to see how FIGHTING TALK would respond to all this.

And it's not happening at all!

Now I wonder if 5LIVE SPORT from noon will take place.

pic.twitter.com/3nLvxs8KBP

— The Seagull Has Landed (@Red__Tim) March 11, 2023

Football Focus looks cancelled

surely somebody's getting fired over this, and not Lineker

I wonder how worried the Tories (and media) are that a lot of football fans, who they take for granted are subhuman bigots, might start thinking, "Maybe Lineker has a point"?