A BBC spokesperson said on Friday night: “We understand their position and we have decided that the programme will focus on match action without studio presentation or punditry.”

The row was sparked by his response on Twitter to a Home Office video in which home secretary Suella Braverman unveiled plans to stop people crossing the Channel on small boats.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gary-lineker-tweet-bbc-news-b2298373.html

BBC's free speech credentials are under scrutiny
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64895590

The tweet that caused it all.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/11/footballs-gary-lineker-booted-off-bbc-after-tweets-on-govt-asyl

Gary Linekar has just shown them the stuff he is made of. It's good to have following. I dedicate this FTC to the Obi revolution in Nigeria. Whether you like it or not there is a quiet revolution. Obi may or may not be president tomorrow but he has changed the political landscape of Nigeria for good. He has indeed written his name in gold. LP came from nowhere to win sits at the federal level.

I support Gary. He is being punished for speaking out for migrants and people from ethnic minorities. The UK are hypocrites. They say they support free speech but can't stand people who tell them the truth to their face

K

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90% of Nairalanders would have no idea of what this thread is all about.

This I have seen.

Solidarity

Good colleagues. I see nothing wrong with what Gary said

Cancel culture won't allow anyone breath again.

Many no just understand!

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We move

I stand with G. Lineker and everyone who sees the light in the truth.

Good news

Isn't it ironic that such punitive migration laws are gaining ground under the rule of a PM who is largely an immigrant himself.

Good riddance!
English pundits are absolutely useless.

shadrach77:
I support Gary. He is being punished for speaking out for migrants and people from ethnic minorities. The UK are hypocrites. They say they support free speech but can't stand people who tell them the truth to their face

do you know how many Nigerians are in the u.k. Don't judge what you don't know

Kini won wii?

Behold the preacher of "freedom and free speech" showing their other side = Hypocrisy.


The west that some lost Africans worship.

Hypocrites... They want to cancel every opinion that runs against their worldview. The truth has to be their truth or it isn't true.

Oboto700:
do you know how many Nigerians are in the u.k. Don't judge what you don't know

How do you know I don't know? His remark wasn't targeted at Africans alone

People are migrating peacefully to UK. But it was not so when " the British are coming' to your land

UK is the very reason Tinubu is sitting tight on his stolen mandate.

UK will always support evil and act like they're saints.

Gary Lineker is a first rate gentleman by all standards
(The only player that never earned a yellow card or red card throughout his career) and, for him to call out UK' unjust laws towards helping migrants shows the stuff he's made of.

A good heart always shines through.

FalseProphet1:
90% of Nairalanders would have no idea of what this thread is all about.

This I have seen.

More like 99%

Including my very humble self.

MOTD analysis kill all of dem dia.

Over 81,000 illegal immigrants came in through france to UK on small boats from 2020, that's a huge number for any country.

Those illegal immigrants are costing UK £1.5 billion a year, since they are signatory to immigration and asylum acts, they are obligated to provide accommodation and support for these illegal immigrants pending when they settle their asylum claims.

Finally...

Oyinbo life

They boycott work because their colleague was suspended
Try that with a 9ja boss make I see