BBC football host restored job after criticizing UK's asylum policy

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Bob Jersey

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Mar 13, 2023, 4:32:03 PM3/13/23
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Gary Lineker was pulled from "Match of the Day" after ripping the Government's plan over social media... other staff of the programme, and elsewhere in the sport division, walked off in protest, and players and managers from British teams refused to allow interviews, cutting a usually-80-minute program Saturday to about 20... 


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Mark Jeffries

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Mar 13, 2023, 4:50:09 PM3/13/23
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The clips ran without any studio commentary but, I assume, with added graphics.  It seems like the only BBC voices you heard during that time was the BBC1 booth announcer leading in and leading out, with the only other sounds the show's theme (same theme for almost 60 years!) and the sounds from the match with the commentary from Sky's announcers (or whoever else was carrying the matches).  The opening from last Saturday night:


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