BBC presenter Gary Lineker has been accused of lacking "humility" after addressing his controversial tweets in a new interview.Lineker, 64, has revealed he believes the BBC wanted him to leave Match Of The Day, as he prepares to depart the corporation after the 2026 World Cup.FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00him on another radio station this morning and I just was left at the end of it thinking there's
00:05no humility there there's no admittance that he could ever be in the wrong he feels very you know
00:11that he is right everybody else is wrong he even said it when they challenged him on the Suella
00:15Braverman situation that really caused his downfall he said he did regret the damage that it did to
00:21the BBC but he doesn't regret his comments because he was right yeah and I just think
00:25it reminds me of what he said about Suella Braverman the former home secretary effectively accused of
00:29racism yes yeah well he's a sports commentator yes and that would be my point as well I mean what
00:35he actually said was that the language he used in a video about migrants yeah was not dissimilar to
00:41that used by Germany in the 1930s shocking well yeah it is shocking first of all it's just it's
00:46not true for him to actually turn around and say oh well that's true it's not true secondly you're
00:53absolutely right he's a football commentator so um he's also had a go about the BBC pulling the
00:59Gaza film that was made by the 30 by the feature of the 13 year old who his father was a Hamas
01:06official um well that's not not his area either the one thing he's also had a go at was um gambling
01:14in football that is his area his argument is that gambling clubs should be out of should not be
01:19sponsoring football because of the damage that gambling can do that strikes me as as within
01:25his expertise is the other stuff not you should stick to football commentating but his argument
01:30would be it's it's my free speech I've got strong views just because I'm a football commentator
01:35doesn't mean I don't have any public views yes so you have to accept some sort of restriction on
01:39your speech if you work for particular and also his vastly inflated salary presumably in some way
01:45well Premier League football is so rich because partly because gambling companies sponsored
01:50have been involved in sponsorship yes that's right yes so you can't have it both ways Gaza no but I
01:55mean but certainly but the point basically is that that he's quite right this is an area where he can
02:00make a comment on yeah as whereas the the inflammatory comparison with the home secretary was really
02:06unacceptable well before we move on to the next story we've got to read out this uh reply from the BBC
02:11after a quarter of a century Gary is stepping down from hosting match of the day at the end of this
02:16season he will continue with the match of the day top 10 podcast and the BBC will also host the
02:21hugely popular the rest is football podcast on BBC sounds so down but not quite out indeed well moving
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