The BBC has announced that they have been forced to several of this weekend's sports programmes and apologises for the chaos after Gary Lineker's political tweet
The BBC has apologised after it was forced to pull several sports programmes following a boycott by presenters and pundits in support of Gary Lineker.
Saturday’s TV and radio sporting timetables were changed at the last minute and Sunday’s Match Of The Day has also been thrown into question. Some of Lineker's fellow BBC sports presenters, including Alex Scott, Kelly Somers and Jason Mohammad, have also said they were pulling out of their shows in support of Lineker, which resulted in Football Focus and Final Score being scrapped from the BBC One schedule, while 5 Live’s radio coverage was also altered.
On Tuesday, Gary commented on a Twitter video put out by Home Secretary Suella Braverman, in which she unveiled government plans to stop migrant boats crossing the Channel.Responding to the sports broadcaster, another Twitter user described his comment as “out of order”, adding that it was “easy to pontificate when it doesn’t affect you”.
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