Super striker

Former Leicester, Barcelona and England striker, Gary Lineker, rolled back the years this week as the BBC banned him from presenting MOTD after he tweeted that the language being used in the debate about migrants was similar to that in 1930s Germany.

He accused no one of being a Nazi, or was going to gas Jews or migrants.

This broke guidelines, he was told.

When you look at the guidelines, he had not.

The Express and Mail had been leading calls for his suspension, and they got their wish.

Only all other football and radio presenters and pundits and commentaters all refused to work in support.

So, there was no Football Focus, Final Score, live match coverage on Radio 5, and MOTD was reduced to 20 minutes with no theme music, commentating or pundits.

With next week's FA Cup weekend coming into view, something had to be done.

So the BBC caved in and let Gary back and allowed him to carry on tweeting.

This has annoyed the Mail and Express greatly who now are using this to call for defunding of the BBC.

Again.

Thing is, Andrew Neil, also an external contractor, who hosted the "flagship" political debate show was allowed to tweet many tweets critising Labour and its then leader, Jeremy Corbyn, with no issue. Even though he was using social media in the real of politics, in which he also worked in with the BBC.

When asked yesterday, Tim Davie, the director general, dodged the question as to whether Lineker would have been suspended if he had tweeted support for Government policy.

So, Gary and Marcus Rashford, the new Official Opposition.