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Lineker and Attenborough

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  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 22,518
    Don't watch MOTD anyway, haven't done so since 2006/07 season... ;)
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    eastterrace6168 said:
    Don't watch MOTD anyway, haven't done so since 2006/07 season... ;)
    You should have stopped a series earlier, didn't think much of the last one.

    Happier ending that way too.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Can we get a few Accrington players suspended for political tweets as well, we need the win tomorrow.
  • Manic_mania
    Manic_mania Posts: 2,258
    Gotta love Micah Richards

    "I'm not due to be on motd tomorrow, but if I was I wouldn't go on"

    Yeah cheers for that Mica 😂 I'm not due to be on there either mate !
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    Micah Richards has come out in solidarity

  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 22,518
    North Lower Neil said:
    eastterrace6168 said:
    Don't watch MOTD anyway, haven't done so since 2006/07 season... ;)
    You should have stopped a series earlier, didn't think much of the last one.

    Happier ending that way too.
    Proper Charlton mate... ;)
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    So now we have no:

    Gary Lineker
    Ian Wright
    Alan Shearer
    Alex Scott
    Micah Richards
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    A lot of goals in that top three. 
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 22,518
    Addick Addict said:
    So now we have no:

    Gary Lineker
    Ian Wright
    Alan Shearer
    Alex Scott
    Micah Richards
    Time for some new blood then...
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  • Gary Poole
    Gary Poole Posts: 1,874
    Addick Addict said:
    So now we have no:

    Gary Lineker
    Ian Wright
    Alan Shearer
    Alex Scott
    Micah Richards
    And no viewers

  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,966
    Addick Addict said:
    Micah Richards has come out in solidarity

    He'll be posting on the favourite musicals thread next
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,265
    edited March 2023
    Jermaine Jenas never had a backbone, he'll probably be on it, alongside Danny Murphy and some no mark regional lad...

    What's @LouisMend up to tomorrow? :wink:
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952

  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    edited March 2023
    To be honest, when Charlton do badly I can't watch any football on a Saturday or Sunday morning. It is still too raw for me. So I hardly ever watch MOTD. Lineker may get too much money but he is a good presenter and I like Ian Wright's passion and Shearer is very knowledgable. That to me is a fact whether you like them or not. Some people don't like them and that colours their view of how they do their jobs which is ridiculous.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    eastterrace6168 said:
    Addick Addict said:
    So now we have no:

    Gary Lineker
    Ian Wright
    Alan Shearer
    Alex Scott
    Micah Richards
    Time for some new blood then...


    Des Lynam 2/1 fav 

  • ISawLeaburnScore
    ISawLeaburnScore Posts: 9,779
    Good on them all. Freedom of speech, provided it is within the law, should be encouraged and preserved.

    It is absolutely ludicrous for the BBC to seek to moderate the (legal) social media activity of a freelancer unless they have the contractual basis to do so (which the "step back" farce suggests they don't). Very silly and very preventable and an A1 way to blow the whole situation up tenfold.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    What about Lady Hussey?
    Could she step in seeing as how she has been 'in waiting' so long?What is it like to be repeatedly asked where you are from - BBC News
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    edited March 2023
    Mixed feelings on this one. 

    As a general principle I am all for 'Freedom of Speech' but, that said, the BBC is supposed to be impartial and its highest paid presenter presumably has a duty to appear impartial too.

    I don't recall this public outcry when Lineker was tweeting and generally supporting the REMAIN cause prior to the EU Referendum to quote one example. 

    Maybe Lineker has stepped out of line once too often given his prestigious role as mentioned above.

    Or perhaps Godwin's rule has come into play.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    RedPanda said:
    Don't forget last night their Question Time host defended Boris Johnson's dad breaking his mum's nose as "it was a one off."

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2023/03/10/fiona-bruce-calls-stanley-johnsons-domestic-abuse-one-off-on-question-time-18421206/amp/

    This was when discussing and defending Stanley Johnson potentially being made a 'sir'
    She didn't defend him. She reported what had been said.
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  • JohnnyJoeyDeeDee
    JohnnyJoeyDeeDee Posts: 1,040
    This really should be in capital letters - the impartiality rules only apply to news and current affairs staff. Lineker is a sports freelancer. It is isn’t complicated. BBC, government and some right wing commentators are now trying to say as he is high profile and highly paid it should apply to him.  Someone is trying to retrospectively change the rules. Andrew Neil is a very good broadcaster but they chose to ignore the rules for him ( he is possibly a freelancer)
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,665
    edited March 2023
    Does MOTD even need presenters? I always fast forward through the punditry. 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    The thing about the Attenborough decision; even if you take out the rights and wrongs behind the motive, why have they spent so much money producing an episode that can only be viewed on iplayer? Is that a good use of money?
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    Glad they all got their month in the Qatari sun, staying in lavish hotels with fine dining thrown in, completely in the knowledge that 6000+ lives were lost as a direct result of the tournament being staged (and possibly during the construction of those very hotels they stayed in), but have now found their collective voice in the search for truth and justice.

    Solidarity 🙄
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    charlton_hero said:
    Does MOTD even need presenters? I always fast forward through the punditry. 
    I think that tomorrow's MOTD may well have no presenters and just highlights with post match interviews. Who, seriously, with an ounce of belief in free speech and the same rules being applied to everyone be they Lineker or Sugar, is going to take the job? 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    Off_it said:
    The thing about the Attenborough decision; even if you take out the rights and wrongs behind the motive, why have they spent so much money producing an episode that can only be viewed on iplayer? Is that a good use of money?
    Syndication rights etc if it's sold on to America etc.
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,890
    I don’t much care what Linekar tweets one way or the other. I don’t associate his views with the BBC one way or the other. 

    I find it equally crass that politicians even commented on him earlier in the week. He is unimportant as I think he may have intimated himself in one tweet. 

    The only possible defence to this action tonight is whether he did something he previously told the BBC he would not. In that case there might be a conversation needed if other presenters / journalists are being treated differently and he has put his colleagues and employers in a difficult position internally. Even then however the BBC statement doesn’t really read that way. 

    Easy for him to take his stance as no real jeopardy for him.  
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    I can't wait for the next series of W1A, they are really going to have to pull out all the stops to top this.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,625
    edited March 2023




    Mcclair nowdays.
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