{"id":1490,"date":"2023-11-12T22:35:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T22:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/bbcs-football-focus-team-pull-out-of-show-in-support-of-gary-lineker\/"},"modified":"2023-11-12T22:35:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T22:35:31","slug":"bbcs-football-focus-team-pull-out-of-show-in-support-of-gary-lineker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/bbcs-football-focus-team-pull-out-of-show-in-support-of-gary-lineker\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC&#39;s Football Focus team pull out of show in support of Gary Lineker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ropS-UIqCsU?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The BBC&#8217;s flagship Football Focus show has been taken off-air after host Alex Scott and the programme&#8217;s pundits said they would not take part in support of Gary Lineker.<\/p>\n<p>The corporation announced on Friday that Lineker would be &#8220;stepping back&#8221; as host of Match of the Day after he tweeted criticism of the government&#8217;s asylum policy, in contravention of the BBC&#8217;s impartiality rules.<\/p>\n<p>#garylineker #matchoftheday #football <\/p>\n<p>Live updates: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/gary-lineker-latest-stars-pull-out-of-match-of-the-day-as-some-britons-cancel-tv-licence-over-bbc-row-12830851<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews <\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps:<br \/>\nApple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8<br \/>\nAndroid https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Sky News Daily podcast is available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/skynewsdaily\/<\/p>\n<p>Sky News videos are now available in Spanish here\/Los video de Sky News est\u00e1n disponibles en espa\u00f1ol aqu\u00ed: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCzG5BnqHO8oNlrPDW9CYJog <\/p>\n<p>Sky News videos are also available in German here\/Hier k\u00f6nnen Sie au\u00dferdem Sky News-Videos auf Deutsch finden: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCHYg31l2xrF-Bj859nsOfnA <\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ropS-UIqCsU\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC&#8217;s flagship Football Focus show has been taken off-air after host Alex Scott and the programme&#8217;s pundits said they would not take part in support of Gary Lineker. The corporation announced on Friday that Lineker would be &#8220;stepping back&#8221; as host of Match of the Day after he tweeted criticism of the government&#8217;s asylum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}