Gary Lineker

[Callum_62]

It's not linkers fault this BBC offered him that much

We would all lap that up if in similar position

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[Barman Stanton]

I think Lineker is very good at his job. Of course I don't in any way think he is worth his salary. But I don't get the hate he is receiving from some.

[MWHIBBIES]

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They can't sell that show anywhere else in the world as they don't own the rights to do so.

Please check out the facts before posting absolute drivel...

Right but high ratings for that show makes their business bigger and stronger, meaning they can make other shows, sell other shows etc. You can seriously believe he makes the BBC no money at all and they earn the same if a program gets no vewiers as if it gets 20 million. Surely you aren't that daft.

They also advertise their other shows before and after prime shows like MOTD. I mean, this really isn't difficult to understand.

BBC make a good bit from Linekers talents and he is well compensated.

[Kojock]

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Gary Lineker agrees to huge pay cut from his £1.75m BBC salary after fury over axing licences for OAPs.

Ridiculous salary to pay someone to talk about football.

Surely he would be better accepting the full amount then donate the percentage he was willing to reduce his salary by to help the OAPs to pay their licence. Otherwise the BBC will use the money saved to pay more to some other pundit to talk cr@p. Alan Shearer for one.

[CMurdoch]

Don't get the BBC haters.
The BBC is brilliant and has always been.
The licence fee has always been a good deal.
BBC TV & Radio produce quality rather than fluff.
All Pay for view, for profit, shareholder, TV is the devil.
People are so short sighted. Can only see today and the deal that is in front of them.

The BBC who brought me the John Peel show, Bob Crampsey, David Begg commentaries, Sportsound, BBC 6 music, great documentaries, Play for Today, Wimbledon, The Open etc.
Sky on the other hand out bid everyone for every sporting event they wanted like a big greedy ****, held us all to ransom, totally ****ed the football market for Scottish football teams and sucked vast sums of money out of our pockets.
If the BBC goes all you have is the worst blood sucking capitalist TV stations.
The massive businesses kill the opposition and then **** everyone up the arse with the"going rate" which brings us back to Lineker.

Gary Lineker is good at what he does but he is overpayed given the honour of being on BBC. Performers always worked for the BBC for reasons other than the money. However, you could easily argue that he is not overpayed if you look at the salaries Gabby Yorath & Claire Balding are paid for ruining sports programmes with their trite uninformed hiya drivel. The late Ron Pickering and the not late Brendan Foster must be disgusted with only Steve Cram now giving athletics the gravitas of presentation the sport deserves.

[Yorkshire HFC]

[QUOTE=CMurdoch;5930028]Don't get the BBC haters.
The BBC is brilliant and has always been.
The licence fee has always been a good deal.


Totally agree - people who complain about it should experience what other countries have - I can't think of many better ways to spend £12 every month.

[allmodcons]

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Don't get the BBC haters.
The BBC is brilliant and has always been.
The licence fee has always been a good deal.
BBC TV & Radio produce quality rather than fluff.
Pay for view profit, shareholder, all business TV is the devil.
People are so short sighted. Can only see the deal that is in front of them.

The BBC who brought me the John Peel show, Bob Crampsey, David Begg commentaries, Sportsound, BBC 6 music, great documentaries, Play for Today, Wimbledon, The Open etc.
Sky on the other hand bought every sporting event they wanted like a big greedy ****, held us all to ransom, totally ****ed the football market for Scottish football teams and sucked vast sums of money out of our pockets.
If the BBC goes all you have is the worst blood sucking capitalist TV stations.
The massive businesses kill the opposition and then **** everyone up the arse with the"going rate" which brings us back to Lineker.

Gary Lineker is good at what he does but he is overpayed given the honour of being on BBC. Performers always worked for the BBC for reasons other than the money. However, you could easily argue that he is not overpayed if you look at the salaries Gabby Yorath & Claire Balding are paid for ruining sports programmes with their trite uninformed hiya drivel. The late Ron Pickering and the not late Brendan Foster must be disgusted with only Steve Cram now giving athletics the gravitas of presentation the sport deserves.

I think you're getting a bit carried away with yourself here CM.

In the early days the BBC was so good at propaganda that Joseph Goebbels used it as a model for Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine.

You might expect the Corporation to produce some good programming in the near 100 years they've been in existence, particularly so, given that they had a monopoly on the TV screen for so long but I think it's fair to say that they've also produced some amount of guff and, as an aside, the budget they 'give' to Scottish Football is an absolute joke.

With regard to Gary Lineker he is massively overpaid for what he does, whether he does it well or not is not relevant. I don't see people turning off MOTD when it's presented by Dan Walker or anyone else half decent for that matter.

For what it's worth, I don't subscribe to Sky TV but at least I can opt in or out as I please. I have no option with the BBC and genuinely grudge seeing my TV licence fee wasted on former footballers and worse still failed reporters and politicians like Andrew Neil and Micheal Portillo.

[Cataplana]

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We live in a dictatorial state that makes people pay for a service that could well be a subscription service at this point in time to brainwash the masses with their propaganda.

It would make places like the Soviet Union & China look on with envy at this way of state control.

I think you have over egged that. Speak to any immigrant and they will tell you what state control is.

The very fact you are able to make your claim is evidence enough it isn't as bad as other places and in the world.

[ekhibee]

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I think Lineker is very good at his job. Of course I don't in any way think he is worth his salary. But I don't get the hate he is receiving from some.

This. He was a top class player and a good ambassador for the sport, I've not got any problem with him presenting MOTD although agree that he, like a lot of other celebrities, is overpaid. He doesn't take himself too seriously too, and in my eyes that's a good thing.

[H18S NX]

I think we should be allowed to opt out of the bbc programmes and licence fees,it is foisted upon us whether we like it or not.

[The Baldmans Comb]

There is next to nothing on the BBC that interests me or I can't get elsewhere and I haven't watched it in literally years.

I concluded years ago that BBC HQ in England and its subsidiary BBC Scotland reflect Scotland the way they would like it to be rather than the reality of what Scotland is really like.

Linekar is an excellent presenter and an interesting and progressive person but if the BBC makes the choice of paying him £1.7m while paying £2m annually for the rights to Scottish Football then its only fair I also make my own choices regarding paying license fees for owning a TV set.

Its a very weird tax in this day and age and of course totally unenforceable.

[calumhibee1]

I’m actually surprised he doesn’t get paid more.

[The 90+2]

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I’m actually surprised he doesn’t get paid more.

Probably doubles up on BT.

[CMurdoch]

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I think you're getting a bit carried away with yourself here CM.

In the early days the BBC was so good at propaganda that Joseph Goebbels used it as a model for Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine.

You might expect the Corporation to produce some good programming in the near 100 years they've been in existence, particularly so, given that they had a monopoly on the TV screen for so long but I think it's fair to say that they've also produced some amount of guff and, as an aside, the budget they 'give' to Scottish Football is an absolute joke.

With regard to Gary Lineker he is massively overpaid for what he does, whether he does it well or not is not relevant. I don't see people turning off MOTD when it's presented by Dan Walker or anyone else half decent for that matter.

For what it's worth, I don't subscribe to Sky TV but at least I can opt in or out as I please. I have no option with the BBC and genuinely grudge seeing my TV licence fee wasted on former footballers and worse still failed reporters and politicians like Andrew Neil and Micheal Portillo.

They could certainly save a load of cash and improve Match of the Day by having insightful sports journalists on alongside Lineker rather than the tedious ex footballers Jenas, Shearer etc who always have me reaching for the fast forward button.

[Moody Blues]

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All about opinions but I think he's a terrible presenter and that salary is an absolute joke. The amount of times he asks a question then looks away as if checking autocue and not paying attention to the answer. And don't get me started on the time they tried him presenting the Open, his interview of Jack Nicklaus was embarrassing.

I'm sure he'll survive with his BT Sport and Walkers crisps money.

Well said. Dont get me started about BBC salaries. Cant stand Linekar.

[Phil MaGlass]

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Well said. Dont get me started about BBC salaries. Cant stand Linekar.

Or how the unbiased bbc took sides during the Scottish referendum. *******s

[HappyAsHellas]

You pay pennies a day for everything available on the BBC and yet some would rather do away with it so we can watch adverts every ten minutes. It is still by far the best value for money out there. Be careful what you wish for.

[Hibspur]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx27k4789qdt

'Leaving BBC earlier than expected'. A polite way of saying they sacked him.

[NAE NOOKIE]

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx27k4789qdt

'Leaving BBC earlier than expected'. A polite way of saying they sacked him.

He'll walk into a job at SKY or TNT whatever. Don't mind him to be honest, no doubt his inability to keep himself from publicly commenting on what he sees as social injustice didn't help him, and in the current lurch to the right in England that doesn't go down well with the overwhelmingly right wing printed press and the right wing politicians who have influence over BBC funding. Including a current Labour government who seem so terrified of losing voters to the right wing they attempt to appease rather than fight them.

[Since452]

He's been too big for his boots for years that melt.

[CapitalGreen]

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He'll walk into a job at SKY or TNT whatever. Don't mind him to be honest, no doubt his inability to keep himself from publicly commenting on what he sees as social injustice didn't help him, and in the current lurch to the right in England that doesn't go down well with the overwhelmingly right wing printed press and the right wing politicians who have influence over BBC funding. Including a current Labour government who seem so terrified of losing voters to the right wing they attempt to appease rather than fight them.

He was already stepping away from most of his BBC work at the end of the week to dedicate more time to his booming podcast business. The shows he produces seem to be dominating the podcast charts for a range of different interests/topics.

[Wembley67]

It's farcical that he has been pushed out early.

Many folk were just out to get him and look for anything they can blow up.

[Thatdayinmay16]

Crazy to think this is what happens when you're in the spotlight and speak out against Israel.

[Bostonhibby]

Very good pundit, decent guy who lives in a country where you're allowed to have an opinion and freedom of speech h whatever you do for a living.

Will walk into another job if he wants to.

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Crazy to think this is what happens when you're in the spotlight and speak out against Israel.

Yup. See also the stuff with Kneecap. I'm not saying I agree with what they said about Tory MPs but it was from 2023. Suddenly it's become a huge issue now that they've dared to criticise Israel.

Fwiw I've not had a license in years and wouldn't dream of giving the BBC any money but I always liked Linekar and they will be seriously worse off without him.

[neil7908]

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It's farcical that he has been pushed out early.

Many folk were just out to get him and look for anything they can blow up.

All the folk that are after him are the someone's that moan constantly how you can't say anything anymore because of the wokes. Suddenly Israel come up and it's a different tune.

[Thatdayinmay16]

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Yup. See also the stuff with Kneecap. I'm not saying I agree with what they said about Tory MPs but it was from 2023. Suddenly it's become a huge issue now that they've dared to criticise Israel.

Fwiw I've not had a license in years and wouldn't dream of giving the BBC any money but I always liked Linekar and they will be seriously worse off without him.

Correct, I dislike Kneecap for other reasons.

But anyone that speaks out against Israel/Jewish people are instantly called "anti-Semitic" or a "nazi".

[He's here!]

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Very good pundit, decent guy who lives in a country where you're allowed to have an opinion and freedom of speech h whatever you do for a living.

Will walk into another job if he wants to.

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It's fine defending his right to freedom of speech if you accept it works both ways. As the former BBC head of sport says in that story how would those defending him feel if instead of pro-Remain and pro-Palestine posts he'd posted in support of Brexit and Israel?

It's his hypocrisy when supposedly standing up for human rights that rankles with me. He was prepared to front the BBC's World Cup coverage from Qatar after all.

[Bostonhibby]

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It's fine defending his right to freedom of speech if you accept it works both ways. As the former BBC head of sport says in that story how would those defending him feel if instead of pro-Remain and pro-Palestine posts he'd posted in support of Brexit and Israel?

It's his hypocrisy when supposedly standing up for human rights that rankles with me. He was prepared to front the BBC's World Cup coverage from Qatar after all.

Freedom of expression covers it both ways for me.

A hypocrite might well seem to take both sides,in my opinion.



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[JeMeSouviens]

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It's fine defending his right to freedom of speech if you accept it works both ways. As the former BBC head of sport says in that story how would those defending him feel if instead of pro-Remain and pro-Palestine posts he'd posted in support of Brexit and Israel?

It's his hypocrisy when supposedly standing up for human rights that rankles with me. He was prepared to front the BBC's World Cup coverage from Qatar after all.

The BBC let all this long list go... https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...versies-quotes

He was only finally binned for assaulting a colleague. The difference with Lineker is he has the right wing press against him.