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Gary Lineker back on air as Alan Shearer addresses ‘difficult situation’ after tweet row | UK News


Gary Lineker has returned to his presenting duties on the BBC, with football pundit Alan Shearer talking about the “difficult situation” he and his colleagues faced after a dispute over justice. equal.

Lineker has been forced to stop broadcasting consecutively because of a tweet critical of the government’s migration policy, with his co-hosts turning down Match Of The Day last weekend to show solidarity. conclude.

Shearer was speaking as he joined Micah Richards and Lineker – who opened the show by saying “it’s great to be here” – on Saturday night for coverage of the FA Cup, a week after viewers had to What to do with a severely restricted version of the program due to a dispute.

He said: “I just need to clarify and want to say how sad we are for all the viewers who missed out last weekend.

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“It’s been a really difficult situation for everyone involved and through no fault of their own, some really great people on TV and radio have been put in an impossible situation, and that’s not fair.

“So it’s good to go back to normal life and talk about football.”

Lineker replied, “Absolutely right, repeat those sentiments.”

The tweet posted by Lineker, 62, compared the language used by the government to launch the new asylum-seeker policy with the language used in 1930s Germany.

The controversy worsened after Lineker’s BBC sports colleagues, including Shearer, stepped out in solidarity.

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Richards did not appear that weekend but said on social media that if he did, he would too.

That means Match Of The Day can only air for 20 minutes and has no accompanying commentary or analysis, not even a theme tune.

The Sunday version runs for only 15 minutes.

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Following the dispute, BBC general manager Tim Davie apologized and said an independent review had been launched to look at the group’s social media guidelines, particularly for freelancers like Lineker.

Before returning to present live as part of the BBC’s coverage of the FA Cup quarter-final between Manchester City and Burnley, Lineker tweeted a number of times.

He wrote “back to work Saturday” in the morning, before snapping a selfie at the stadium with the caption “Ah, joy to be allowed to stick with football”.

He also posted a picture of himself with Richards and Shearer, describing them as “teammates”

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