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No presenters or pundits will feature on Saturday's Match of the Day programme, a BBC spokesperson says.

Saturday's Match of the Day programme will "focus on match action without studio presentation or punditry", they say.

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6 hours ago, MikeO said:

No presenters or pundits will feature on Saturday's Match of the Day programme, a BBC spokesperson says.

Saturday's Match of the Day programme will "focus on match action without studio presentation or punditry", they say.

Could be a great new format with no need for pundits!

It would save a few quid too.

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12 hours ago, MikeO said:

You have to wonder why he wasn't binned for not being impartial when Leicester won the league....that'd make more sense in terms of what he's paid to do.

Don't tell Jeff Stelling that on SKY SPORTS.

 

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34 minutes ago, MikeO said:

Which has now been cancelled.

I also believe that the BBC has made it known that they will not be asking for any post match interviews today - presumably because they know they would be refused.

I hope this leads to bigger issues being dealt with at the BBC. As much as I dislike Lineker it would be wrong to single him out when the rot goes right to the top.

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7 minutes ago, RPG said:

I also believe that the BBC has made it known that they will not be asking for any post match interviews today - presumably because they know they would be refused.

The PFA were in discussions with their members over it so, like you say, the BBC were just getting in first I suppose.

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Out of interest, what the BBC impartiality guidelines acually say....

4.3.30 BBC staff and regular BBC presenters or reporters associated with news or public policy-related output may offer professional judgements rooted in evidence. However, it is not normally appropriate for them to present or write personal view content on public policy, matters of political or industrial controversy, or ‘controversial subjects’ in any area.

So on what basis they decided to suspend him at all is anyone's guess....though my guess would be Tory pressure.

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19 minutes ago, MikeO said:

Out of interest, what the BBC impartiality guidelines acually say....

4.3.30 BBC staff and regular BBC presenters or reporters associated with news or public policy-related output may offer professional judgements rooted in evidence. However, it is not normally appropriate for them to present or write personal view content on public policy, matters of political or industrial controversy, or ‘controversial subjects’ in any area.

So on what basis they decided to suspend him at all is anyone's guess....though my guess would be Tory pressure.

The BBC never stopped Andrew Neil tweeting what he wanted, so I guess it is acceptable to tweet what you want unless it is (or perceived to be) anti-Tory.

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4 hours ago, MikeO said:

Astounding that he's allowed to separate his finances from those of his wife, but if sombody put in a Universal Credit claim without disclosing their spouse's income or capital they'd get done for benefit fraud.

The plot thickens. I wonder what Cromwell would think of the Parliament that was meant to be run by the people for the people, now being run by multiple millionaires who have very little in common with the people. Democracy has been sold to the richest in the country so they can grow their wealth by persecuting the poorest. Don’t you just love the Tories and their backers. 

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What concerns me about going for Rishi Sunak at this moment in time is it may unwittingly give Boris Johnson some kind of reprieve within the Tory party. Ideally the media should stick with condemning Johnson in the hope he will be voted out of parliament, and once that has been achieved turn their attention to Sunak. And then before we know it the Government will be forced to call a no confidence vote resign or call a general election. 

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