Rightwing Backlash

[Brigadier]

To keep himself fit and would be at best mediocre if he didnt

Owned yourself there

 

[gant]

Owned yourself there

Loads of players with natural talent the who didn't have to put the hard yards in, Marsh being one of them, Best was pi*sed half the time but still run rings round defenders.

 

[Brigadier]

If anyone on here worked for a large company-and was known very well for working for that company, decided to make an inflammatory remark on social media that bought their employer into disrepute, would they expect to keep their job?

If Chris Mason or nick Robinson had said the same in a new programme, there would have been no case to answer.

How can posting (as good as) facts be disreputable?

 

[Brigadier]

He was a pocher. Not a very good footballer, he just knew when to poke his leg out.

His job was to score goals.
He was excellent at it.
To deny that says more about you, than it does about him.

 

[Ihavenojob]

How can posting (as good as) facts be disreputable?

It was opinion, not facts or as good as.

 

[Brigadier]

Loads of players with natural talent the who didn't have to put the hard yards in, Marsh being one of them, Best was pi*sed half the time but still run rings round defenders.

Doesn't matter what your (or my) opinion of him as a footballer is or was.

People whose opinion counted, and his record, do though.

 

[Odds]

Rishi! will be most rueful to see all the palaver about lineker's tweet taking all his thunder away from the deal with the French to invest in building detention centers and maintaining a border patrol on t'other side of the Channel. The Tories have been trying to do that deal for years.

 

[JohnD]

Has BBC chairman Richard Sharp been suspended?

 

[Justin Passing]

your wish for people to air their personal views to be curtailed...

Excrement from the forum troll as usual. It's in his contract, dummy.

Do you foresee people being forbidden to SUPPORT government policy?

Yes. I wouldn't allow it if I were the BBC.

How do you know they don't? You don't think they talk outside of the aired show?

They aren't as much in the public domain as Lineker. They wouldn't matter as much. But It would still be inappropriate to air Nazi-quoting political views when anything they "say" is likely to be newsworthy. If it became general knowledge they'd be discarded and considered stupid.

He's worked his absolute spuds off from an age at which you hadn't even started popping spots and sprouting pubes, to become an England legend.

Irrelevant even if it were true. He turned out to be someone who doesn't honour his contract. Not a legend.
He could have a VC and Bar. Then he'd be a disgraceful tw@t with a VC and Bar.

if he had spoken in support of the Government policy would be have been pulled up for a political comment.

I would have called him in for an up-pulling, yes.

If anyone on here worked for a large company-and was known very well for working for that company, decided to make an inflammatory remark on social media that bought their employer into disrepute, would they expect to keep their job?

No.

do you think it right that they are not allowed to express a personal view?

They have to use some intelligence and be proportionate. Not things you would understand.

Because if someone 'expects' to lose their job, do you not consider that a form of censorship and curtailment of free speech?

No. You really are talking shyte.

No, it's called breaking the terms of your employment.

Exactly. Very simple, really.

Or they gave him a poor contract. Who is at fault there?

If Lineker didn't like it, he shouldn't have agreed to it. Now he's unemployable imo.
He's paid a fortune for not much. Keeping the gob shut isn't demanding. Red card.

How can posting (as good as) facts be disreputable?

If they were facts, for seeking to discredit his employer he loses his job - for not keeping his silly gob shut.
They aren't facts, so he's just a contract-breaking, gobshyte.
If he'd had the common sense to realise his words were offensive and retracted, that might have kept his job for him, but he obviously doesn't value it, even at £1.355m after his £400m salary cut.
Just one of the world's overpaid, surplus a-holes.


It's simple. He needed to be impartial as far as the public are concerned.
He had some leeway but he clearly went too far.

 

[Brigadier]

Irrelevant even if it were true

No its not:it was in response to your calling him "entitled". He's worked for what he has, not had it handed to him by Daddy.

 

[Deleted member 294929]

If the BBC did away with MOTD and football focus some of those in support of Gary would find it hard to ger another job paying as well in their field.

I only watch MOTD if Chelsea win or involved in an exciting draw or if Liverpool loose.

I then only watch the recording so I can skip the the other games

 

[IT Minion]

If anyone on here worked for a large company-and was known very well for working for that company, decided to make an inflammatory remark on social media that bought their employer into disrepute, would they expect to keep their job?

Since he'd asked about tweeting about contentious issues before and been told it's fine. Yes

And since at least one of the large Jewish organisations have said similar things about the language being used, it's not even that contentious.

 

[Justin Passing]

No its not:it was in response to your calling him "entitled". He's worked for what he has, not had it handed to him by Daddy.

He feels can break his contract and display his ignorance of history in order to criticise his employer.

He's an irresponsible disrespecting jerk, with no such entitlements.

 

[Justin Passing]

Since he'd asked about tweeting about contentious issues before and been told it's fine. Yes

And since at least one of the large Jewish organisations have said similar things about the language being used, it's not even that contentious.

I find no link for that.
He may be trying vainly to justify his independence from the BBC to save himself money he owes: https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ical-tweets-could-help-him-avoid-49m-tax-bill

He's shown his stupidity before. I doubt anyone said it was "fine" : https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/gary-lineker-tweet-tv-license-b1800252.html

 

[Odds]

If the BBC did away with MOTD and football focus some of those in support of Gary would find it hard to ger another job paying as well in their field.

I only watch MOTD if Chelsea win or involved in an exciting draw or if Liverpool loose.

I then only watch the recording so I can skip the the other games

They won't kill it off but the current team of pundits are more expendable than they think.
Oddly enough, i never miss it when Liverpool lose, either. Stay tuned for tonight.