Gary Lineker

Yeah, I think the BBC's problem in this, and I understand why it happens, I think they're so obsessed with...

trying to placate or appease or keep happy the daily mail type newspapers.

And they're doing that to people that

would get rid of the license fee in a heartbeat.

They just don't want the BBC to, because they're competitors to the BBC.

And then from them asking for me to apologize, they ended up apologizing.

I mean, I don't think anyone actually believes I would have posted that if I'd seen it.

Yes, which, you know, obviously I learned about that pretty quickly after that.

But that one I felt bad about because that was my mistake.

That was my mistake because I...

You know, it was not with intent, but I could see why some people would be upset by that.

So that I felt bad about and was happy to apologise, which I did, but...

I think by that stage.

I think we're like a marriage with the BBC.

We've been together for a long time and it was starting to run out of love for each other.

But I'll always love the BBC.

It's an amazing, amazing corporation.

At that point, the curtain came down.

I was going anyway, but we just brought it forward.

I thought it seemed to be the sensible thing to do.