BREAKING: Gary Lineker confident BBC row will be resolved ‘to his satisfaction’ in next 24 hours.
on Saturday has caused chaos for their sport schedule over the weekend with a string of other presenters, pundits and commentators refusing to work in solidarity with the former England striker.
Match of the Day aired with no presenters, pundits or commentary on Saturday evening, a bleak affair, although one that attractedMOTD2 will be shown on Sunday evening, but it will again be a heavily-reduced broadcast with no presenter of pundits speaking about the action. This all stemmed from a tweet Lineker posted which compared language used by the Tory government on their illegal immigration policy to that used in 1930s Germany.
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