{"id":7763,"date":"2024-12-06T10:32:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/gary-lineker-bbc-football-shows-in-disarray-after-presenters-and-pundits-pull-out\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T10:32:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:32:02","slug":"gary-lineker-bbc-football-shows-in-disarray-after-presenters-and-pundits-pull-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/gary-lineker-bbc-football-shows-in-disarray-after-presenters-and-pundits-pull-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Lineker: BBC football shows in disarray after presenters and pundits pull out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hrX-c2YA51w?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The BBC&#8217;s Saturday football coverage has been upended after a host of star names pulled out of the shows in the wake of the Gary Lineker Twitter controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Football Focus has been taken off-air after Alex Scott stood down while Radio 5 Live&#8217;s Fighting Talk is also not being aired, and Final Score appears to have been replaced.<\/p>\n<p>Several presenters and pundits have tweeted their support of Lineker, who was relieved of his Match of the Day presenting duties for criticising the government&#8217;s asylum policies.<\/p>\n<p>#matchoftheday #football #skynews <\/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=hrX-c2YA51w\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC&#8217;s Saturday football coverage has been upended after a host of star names pulled out of the shows in the wake of the Gary Lineker Twitter controversy. Football Focus has been taken off-air after Alex Scott stood down while Radio 5 Live&#8217;s Fighting Talk is also not being aired, and Final Score appears to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7763","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\/7763","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=7763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7765,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763\/revisions\/7765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}