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Gary Lineker taken off Match of the Day

11 March 2023

3:50 AM

11 March 2023

3:50 AM

Talk about an own goal. It seems that Gary Lineker’s increasingly aggressive anti-Tory tweets have got the multimillionaire into hot water with nervy BBC managers. Earlier this week, Lineker compared the language used by the government over its plan to tackle Channel crossings to ‘that used by Germany in the 30s’.

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