The match of the day’s host said: ‘I recognize and bother the error that I have done, and repeat how sorry I am.’Photograph: Nick Pots/Pa
Gary Linekar would leave the BBC at the end of the season, it was declared on Monday, when he apologized for increasing the online content with antisementary meanings.
The presenter, the most paid on-air star in the BBC, was prescribed to the corporation to present the 2026 World Cup and the next season’s FA Cup.
However, anger continues on his social media post between BBC employees and officials, it was confirmed on Monday that he would end his presented duties with the broadcaster, after preparing his final match of the day later this week.
BBC Director General Tim Davi said: “Gary has accepted the mistake made by him. Accordingly, we agree that he will withdraw from further offering this season.
“Gary has been a defined voice in football coverage for the BBC for more than two decades. His passion and knowledge have shaped our sports journalism and earned him the honor of Britain and ahead of sports fans. We want him to thank him for his contribution.”
Linekar said: “Football is in the heart of my life, as long as I can remember – in both pitch and studio. I care about the game deeply, and the work I have done with BBC over the years.
“However, I recognize and harass the error that I have done, and repeat how sorry I am. To step back seems to be like a curriculum responsible for action now.”
It effectively eliminates a decades long relationship with the BBC, in which the corporation developed the former England striker in its major sports presenter. His last match of the day will come 26 years after taking over from Des Linum.
Last week, 64 years old Apologize After this emergence, he re-prepared a-prolistine video on social media that was criticized for Zeoniism and included a rat portrayal. Linekar has 1.2M followers on the platform.
A rat is an antisemic trop used to mark Jews as a vermin in Nazi Germany. Linekar said in a statement that he had removed the post “ever deliberately shared anything antisemitic” and the post was removed as soon as I became aware of the issue “.
However, anger from the most senior figures of the BBC was clear. Davi faced a whole week of calls to dismiss Linekar, which was paid £ 1.4m by the BBC last year.
He was encountered in a high-profile speech in Salaford in a high-profile speech. “The BBC’s reputation is with everyone and when someone makes a mistake, it spends us,” he said. “I think we need people to follow BBC values and follow our social media policy. It is simple as it.”
The BBC will now start a new era of coverage without Linekar. He will be replaced on day match By Gabi Logan, Kelly Kates and Mark ChapmanWhich will share the role presented from the next Premier League season.
It comes after a few years in relations between Linekar and BBC. In March 2023, he Was temporarily suspended On the comments, he criticized the shelter policy of the conservative government.
In February this year, he was also one of the 500 high-profile cultural figures, who called the BBC a documentary, Gaza: How to Surviv a War Zone, called it a “required piece of journalism”.
Broadcaster Documentary removed It was revealed from the BBC Eplay that the 14-year-old narrator of the film was the son of a Deputy Agriculture Minister in the Hamas-Interested Sarkar in the region.
Former BBC director Danny Cohen, who has been a major critic of Linekar’s works and a handling of the BBC issue said it was right that he was leaving. However, he said that the incident was “a symptom of the problem, not the problem”. He accused the BBC of other violations of fairness including Gaza documentary.
“All this is causing great pain for the Jewish community of Britain and constantly reducing the BBC’s reputation,” he said. “Weak leadership by BBC authorities has allowed racism against Jews to participate in the organization for a very long time. In fact the time of effective changes is now, in any form begins with an uneven zero tolerance of antisementism.”
Producer Leo Pearlman also accused the BBC of “weak and ineffective leadership” and said that Linekar had no victory except “appears to be on its own terms”. He said: “After months of gasliting the British Jew, the BBC will now have to decide: Is it the best, best, best, hateful speech of its highest-speech and most visible purge, or will confirm that Jewish concerns in the UK are having tortured by our national broadcaster and confirming that our national Brahmas Has been ignored? “