Gary Lineker

I don't think it was a particularly scandalous thing to say.

And also I think it's important perhaps to put into some kind of perspective of how it works in terms of...

you know, the balance that you have to have on BBC.

So...

When I started at the BBC, there was no social media.

Then I started social media, but there were no restraints on people that worked for the BBC other than those in news and current affairs.

And then that shifted in around 2019.

They completely moved the goalposts and decided that if you're at the BBC, you can't have any kind of view on anything political.

which I'd never really done on the political side of things.

Nobody knows who I vote for.

I've never said who I vote for.

I've never told anyone to.

And I said to them when they changed these rules, I said, I will continue to post things that I feel are important about humanitarian issues.

And they were going, not really, you'll be careful.

So I actually was relaxed because I didn't think I'd done anything wrong.

And then obviously I've got an amazing show of support from the people that I work with, you know, with Ian Wright and Alan Shearer.

Yeah.

I mean, Wrighty was first and he did it.

And I was in a restaurant in London having lunch and got the news that they'd taken me off the show.

which I saw on social media.