Gary Lineker will be back for this weekend’s football coverage, and the BBC’s senior management only has itself to blame for making itself look so damn stupid. twoht
Date published: Monday 13th March 2023 12:40 -
Twenty-four hours later, the same thing happened again for Match of the Day 2.
For BBC Sport producers, the end of this chaotic interregnum couldn’t have come soon enough. The weekend coming brings a very busy weekend of football, with Premier League matches, one FA Cup quarter-final and Match of the Day on Saturday, and a further Premier League match, the other three FA Cup quarter-finals, and Match of the Day 2 the following day. Whether Lineker was going to be there or not, an end to the uncertainty was needed before another big weekend of televised football.
And as if that wasn’t enough, far right news outlet GB News presented an ‘Alternative Match of the Day without virtue signalling’, which if nothing else, proved why discussing football absolutely shouldn’t be left in the hands of people who have practically no understanding of it whatsoever. roadcasters are free to transmit programmes which may be considered controversial and challenging,’ they said in a statement responding to charges that they’d made false claims over Covid-19.
No matter what, to engage in this level of what looks like wilfully self-destructive behaviour speaks volumes for the extent to which the BBC has been tying itself in knots over questions of impartiality as political discourse in this country has become both more extreme and more febrile.
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