Why Gary Lineker is not on Match of the Day: The story so far including everyone boycotting the BBC show

Football fans will have a very different bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007t9y1">Match of the Day to look forward to on Saturday night (March 11) after the BBC made the decision for long-time host Gary Lineker to temporarily step down. The decision comes in the wake of a controversial tweet from the former Spurs and Barcelona player.

Lineker took to Twitter to hit out at the government’s recently announced Illegal Migration Bill which bans migrants who arrive on small boats to settle in Britain. He tweeted: “This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the ‘30s, and I’m out of order?”