After meeting with executives, Leicester City legend Gary Lineker is allegedly planning to return to the BBC Match of the Day.
The MOTD host was suspended for the remarks he made on Twitter about the government’s divisive new refugee policy. After likening the “stop the boats” campaign to Germany under the Nazi regime, in the 1930s.
However, the choice of the presenter born in Leicester to “step back” from Match of the Day triggered a boycott by analysts and pundits. And seriously disrupting BBC sports coverage over the weekend.
According to The Sun, a deal has been reached that will allow Lineker to resume hosting the show. Starting with the FA Cup program the next weekend.
Two of the quarterfinals of the tournament will be broadcast on the BBC.
Sources close to Lineker as per Sky News, are hopeful that a satisfactory resolution can be made inside the next 24 hours.
A comment on the subject will be publicly disclosed as soon as Monday morning.
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Lineker traveled to witness City’s 3-1 loss to Chelsea at the King Power Stadium as the row escalated on Saturday.
The director general of the BBC, Tim Davie, insisted throughout the disagreement that he wants to resolve the situation with Lineker.
Even though the latter has refused to apologize for his tweet. Which violates the broadcaster’s impartiality laws.
Match of the Day on Saturday was only 20 minutes long and did not feature a host, commentators, or experts.
Nevertheless, 2.58 million people turned in, 500,000 more than the previous week, as per BBC News.
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