![]() ![]() The trouble with strikes, though, as border security employees recently discovered when troops stood in for them, is that they often shine a light on the shortcomings of regular staff. Thankfully, I suppose, wiser heads prevailed for once. ![]() Purely for the sake of comedy, I’d have been tempted to call in the Army to present Saturday’s Match Of The Day, with a regimental sergeant major in the Lineker role, gruffly asking: “Was Martinelli in an offside position then, you ’orrible little man?” Instead, the BBC chose option C, prompting a mass walkout by the BBC’s football staff whose “solidarity” was laughably described by fellow travellers as “brave and heroic,” even though they knew they’d be torn to shreds and cancelled by Twitter if they failed to toe the “free speech” line. Had it failed to register with him that the BBC’s sacred concept of impartiality is more important than any presenter’s Twitter feed, Davie should’ve discretely approached Jeff Stelling, TV’s best live sports anchor, offering him a bigger salary than Gary’s to host MoTD and Final Score.Īnd if he turned them down? He should’ve made either the brilliant Hazel Irvine or Gabby Logan the first permanent female host, and watched all of Lineker’s fairweather PC friends vanish into thin air. Not the route I’d have taken, as common sense demanded BBC boss Tim Davie had a private “chat” with Lineker where he gave him a history lesson about both the Third Reich and his own career, which owes everything to the loyalty of the BBC who have, over many years, fashioned him into a decent football presenter. However it didn’t, thanks to the BBC, who began last week by leading with the story, on the main evening news and then, in a spasm of unfathomable stupidity, ended it by suspending Lineker from his MoTD duties. ![]()
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