Gary Lineker: Wipe Off

The BBC separates itself from its most prominent sports expert. This is a loss for football coverage – and a gain for public television.

An anti-Semitic posting on Instragram draws a line as a red card under the dazzling TV career of football icon Gary Lineker. England raunts, the BBC breathes up. It is the end of a long broken marriage.

BBC will stop working with TV host Gary Lineker after the scandal caused by his social media publication, which was considered anti-Semitic by the corporation itself.

Lineker himself has come out in self-defense to try to clarify the issue, but it has served no purpose.

64-year-old apologised for sharing with anti-Semitic connotations: "Had had to be more careful"