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Gary Lineker and MOTD
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Today or indefinitely?
Wouldn't mind if they scrapped it for the rest of the season.
Creating a somewhat imaginary foe, demonising them and trying to get us all to hate them, while claiming it’s popular and silencing all those who speak out against the policies creating it all and the politicians behind it…
It reminds me of something… just can’t quite put my jackboot on it…
It reminds me of something… just can’t quite put my jackboot on it…
The irony is the ones making the biggest fuss are bloody Asians themselves, whose parents/grandparents were immigrants that were accepted in the UK once upon a time. LOL.
It’s an interesting point - I first came across it in Noron Iron - the so called “super-prod”, ie a Protestant with an “Irish sounding” name - so they needed to prove themselves or “fit in” by being extreme.
Check out a guy called Lenny Murphy - ringleader of the “Shankhill Butchers”.
You get the feeling that Braverman and all have to act more extreme so as the, lets’s be honest, racists in their party can stomach them and they can progress through the ranks.
Plenty of issues over the years you had to be extreme on in the Labour Party to progress too.
This Lineker business is the ultimate "look over there" story. The current government must be pissing themselves laughing as it deflects, however briefly, from their incompetence.
I’ve had the unfortunate misery of crossing paths with a lot of these pretentious, pompous and fake wannabes. It’s almost like they’ve worked so hard their entire life to fit in that they’ve lost their ability to think and rationalise like a normal human being.
That's cos you're from kunt
It’s going to bite them on the arse.
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Have you gone all @jason
No, I really don’t think it’s got anything to do with where I’m from and I’m not from kunt or kent, or kant nor kont.
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‘Gary Lineker’s the best in the business,” said the BBC director-general, Tim Davie, on Saturday, during a hostile interview with his own organisation in which he insisted he would not resign. “That’s not for debate.”
An eerily simplified edition of Match of the Day, truncated to just 20 minutes in length, underlined his point.
Only 32 hours previously, viewers had been expecting the best football highlights programme there has ever been to appear as normal. Its host, Lineker, had been criticised by government ministers and their media outriders for tweeting that the Conservatives’ dehumanising language about refugees was reminiscent of 1930s Germany, but the storm would surely blow over soon. Then, however, the BBC pulled out a shotgun and aimed it shoewards. On Friday afternoon, it announced it had suspended Lineker for breaching impartiality guidelines.
When regular MotD analyst Ian Wright posted that he had chosen not to participate in the programme in “solidarity” with Lineker, it sparked the wildest few hours on Twitter since David Cameron was accused of porking a pig. By the end of the evening, every possible replacement host and pundit had tweeted to rule themselves out of filling in, the show’s commentators had pulled out en masse, and even the players’ union had said there wouldn’t be any post-match interviews. So it was that, the following night, with the BBC now deep in crisis, an embarrassed continuity announcer was forced to intone, “Now on BBC One, we’re sorry that we’re unable to show our normal Match of the Day … ”
Impatient football fans have for some time been able to circumvent Match of the Day and watch cursory three-minute highlights packages of Premier League matches, for free, on YouTube. That explains the 20-minute run-time: there were six Premier League games on Saturday, which makes 18 minutes of footage. And that really was it. Even the theme music, which is one of the best on TV – check that bassline when and if it plays on BBC One again – was retired, presumably because it does too good a job of hyping up a programme that on this occasion deserved the opposite of a fanfare.
The ‘scab’ Match of the Day on 11 March 2023. The show was broadcast with match footage only, no commentary and no studio discussion. Photograph: BBC
The scab MotD wasn’t actually as good as a compilation of the YouTube highlights would have been: they have Sky Sports commentary, but the BBC doesn’t have the rights to that – and, hilariously, it turns out it doesn’t even have access to the default “world feed” commentary commissioned by the Premier League. So there was just crowd noise, which never translates to television well and sounds fake when it’s heavily edited for a highlights reel.
Some viewers, whether they sincerely meant it or were just saying what their chosen side in the culture war demands, had said that this would be the Match of the Day they always wanted: they hate the commentators and pundits! Just show them the football! And for football fanatics, the super-slim MotD was … OK. For viewers who can’t identify Solly March or Diogo Jota at a distance, however, or who don’t know why Ben Chilwell might cup his ears after scoring against Leicester or why a Harry Kane penalty on Saturday was significant, it would have been a confusing, context-free experience. Look away at the wrong moment and you could even miss the final score in a game.
It was a joyless watch because, although Match of the Day is just a vehicle for showing Premier League football highlights, it’s all the stuff around it that makes it a Saturday-night BBC One show. Davie was right: Lineker doesn’t present Match of the Day because he banged in three against Poland at the 1986 World Cup. He presents it because he is perhaps the best in the TV business at the nightmarishly difficult task of juggling analysis, discussion and links to camera to fit a light tone and a rigid running time, in a show broadcast live to a massive audience. It’s a pleasure to watch him do it. His fluid but informative interactions with Wright and Alan Shearer are, as can be confirmed by watching football on any other channel, not as easy as they look. Beyond the studio, commentators like Steve Wilson have spent years honing the rare skill of improvising just the right phrase to describe the action.
When all those people took a stand this week, it put the BBC in deep trouble, and this emergency version of MotD showed why: without them, Match of the Day is very nearly nothing.
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‘Gary Lineker’s the best in the business,” said the BBC director-general, Tim Davie, on Saturday, during a hostile interview with his own organisation in which he insisted he would not resign. “That’s not for debate.”
An eerily simplified edition of Match of the Day, truncated to just 20 minutes in length, underlined his point.
Only 32 hours previously, viewers had been expecting the best football highlights programme there has ever been to appear as normal. Its host, Lineker, had been criticised by government ministers and their media outriders for tweeting that the Conservatives’ dehumanising language about refugees was reminiscent of 1930s Germany, but the storm would surely blow over soon. Then, however, the BBC pulled out a shotgun and aimed it shoewards. On Friday afternoon, it announced it had suspended Lineker for breaching impartiality guidelines.
When regular MotD analyst Ian Wright posted that he had chosen not to participate in the programme in “solidarity” with Lineker, it sparked the wildest few hours on Twitter since David Cameron was accused of porking a pig. By the end of the evening, every possible replacement host and pundit had tweeted to rule themselves out of filling in, the show’s commentators had pulled out en masse, and even the players’ union had said there wouldn’t be any post-match interviews. So it was that, the following night, with the BBC now deep in crisis, an embarrassed continuity announcer was forced to intone, “Now on BBC One, we’re sorry that we’re unable to show our normal Match of the Day … ”
Impatient football fans have for some time been able to circumvent Match of the Day and watch cursory three-minute highlights packages of Premier League matches, for free, on YouTube. That explains the 20-minute run-time: there were six Premier League games on Saturday, which makes 18 minutes of footage. And that really was it. Even the theme music, which is one of the best on TV – check that bassline when and if it plays on BBC One again – was retired, presumably because it does too good a job of hyping up a programme that on this occasion deserved the opposite of a fanfare.
The ‘scab’ Match of the Day on 11 March 2023. The show was broadcast with match footage only, no commentary and no studio discussion. Photograph: BBC
The scab MotD wasn’t actually as good as a compilation of the YouTube highlights would have been: they have Sky Sports commentary, but the BBC doesn’t have the rights to that – and, hilariously, it turns out it doesn’t even have access to the default “world feed” commentary commissioned by the Premier League. So there was just crowd noise, which never translates to television well and sounds fake when it’s heavily edited for a highlights reel.
Some viewers, whether they sincerely meant it or were just saying what their chosen side in the culture war demands, had said that this would be the Match of the Day they always wanted: they hate the commentators and pundits! Just show them the football! And for football fanatics, the super-slim MotD was … OK. For viewers who can’t identify Solly March or Diogo Jota at a distance, however, or who don’t know why Ben Chilwell might cup his ears after scoring against Leicester or why a Harry Kane penalty on Saturday was significant, it would have been a confusing, context-free experience. Look away at the wrong moment and you could even miss the final score in a game.
It was a joyless watch because, although Match of the Day is just a vehicle for showing Premier League football highlights, it’s all the stuff around it that makes it a Saturday-night BBC One show. Davie was right: Lineker doesn’t present Match of the Day because he banged in three against Poland at the 1986 World Cup. He presents it because he is perhaps the best in the TV business at the nightmarishly difficult task of juggling analysis, discussion and links to camera to fit a light tone and a rigid running time, in a show broadcast live to a massive audience. It’s a pleasure to watch him do it. His fluid but informative interactions with Wright and Alan Shearer are, as can be confirmed by watching football on any other channel, not as easy as they look. Beyond the studio, commentators like Steve Wilson have spent years honing the rare skill of improvising just the right phrase to describe the action.
When all those people took a stand this week, it put the BBC in deep trouble, and this emergency version of MotD showed why: without them, Match of the Day is very nearly nothing.
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Gary Lineker is a retired English footballer and sports broadcaster. Net Worth:$35 Million. Salary:$3 Million
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-athletes/richest-soccer/gary-lineker-net-worth/
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Really what else do you need to know about this woke moron?
Gary Lineker is a retired English footballer and sports broadcaster. Net Worth:$35 Million. Salary:$3 Million
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-athletes/richest-soccer/gary-lineker-net-worth/
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Over 7 million children have been affected by the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye (Turkey) and Syria on 6 February. £68 could help pay for school supplies to help at least 20 children continue their education in an emergency.
https://www.unicef.org.uk/donate/ch...OHIMK4qxH9HKkSn9yYyooA9QwjsNAyBYaAia_EALw_wcB
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Really what else do you need to know about this woke moron?
I preferred it when you stayed in GC
I preferred it when you had brains that could think for themselves.
That doesn't even make sense
Yes, even the swivelled-eye loonies on the DM and Express are starting to dial down the insults.
Of course. It means you preferred it when I was in GC because your brain is failing to process information properly. It instead suffers emotional reactions to information. So you preferred it when I was in GC because it protected you from suffering the emotional reaction to some statement about the economy or about the vaccine. If your brain had been capable of processing information and thinking for itself, there would be no available mechanism for you to suffer anything on account of a statement I typed out from a different laptop that is located perhaps a few hundred miles away from you.
Now run along and get your next shot of our lord's gift my child.
GC is the General Chat forum.
The BBC have totally fucked it. Their actions have attracted such negative PR and shined a glaring spotlight on their hypocrisy and blatant ties to the Conservative party.
Lineker didn't even say anything that bad. It wasn't a direct link to Nazi Germany at its worst. Its about the rhetoric that existed on the 1930s. Referring to migrants as an "invasion" and tapping into the hatred of racists up and down the country. We've already seen Knowsley put on fire as a result from these nutters. When large groups of people are waiting outside hotels to attack migrants and refugees then it really isn't that much of leap.
Unfortunately the Tweet/BBC drama has now gathered more attention and drama than the Tory rhetoric and hostility. Appealing to the racists on the extreme right is their last chance hail-mary to pull themselves back in the polls.
Lineker didn't even say anything that bad. It wasn't a direct link to Nazi Germany at its worst. Its about the rhetoric that existed on the 1930s. Referring to migrants as an "invasion" and tapping into the hatred of racists up and down the country. We've already seen Knowsley put on fire as a result from these nutters. When large groups of people are waiting outside hotels to attack migrants and refugees then it really isn't that much of leap.
Unfortunately the Tweet/BBC drama has now gathered more attention and drama than the Tory rhetoric and hostility. Appealing to the racists on the extreme right is their last chance hail-mary to pull themselves back in the polls.
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