Gary Lineker: Players and managers won't be asked to do interviews for Match of the Day

Gary Lineker has hosted Match of the Day since 1999

The Premier League has informed the 12 teams playing connected Saturday that players and managers volition not beryllium asked to bash interviews for Match of the Day.

The amusement volition aerial connected Saturday nighttime without a workplace presenter, pundits oregon its regular commentators.

A fig of players from assorted clubs had suggested they wanted to boycott post-match interviews with the show.

They had contacted the Professional Footballers Association (PFA) to accidental they whitethorn privation to amusement solidarity with Lineker and the MOTD pundits.

Now the Premier League has told the PFA, League Managers Association (LMA) and the clubs not to expect requests to behaviour post-match interviews for the programme.

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On Twitter, erstwhile England striker Lineker compared the connection utilized by the authorities to unveil its caller plans arsenic "not dissimilar to" 1930s Germany.

The BBC said it it had asked Lineker to measurement backmost from presenting aft "extensive discussions" with him.

The corp said it considered his "recent societal media enactment to beryllium a breach of our guidelines", adding it had been "decided that helium volition measurement backmost from presenting Match of the Day until we've got an agreed and wide presumption connected his usage of societal media".

Lineker has presented the amusement since 1999.

After it was announced helium was stepping back, pundits Ian Wright, Alan Shearer, Micah Richards and Jermaine Jenas each said they would not look connected the show, portion Alex Scott hinted the same.

In a aboriginal statement, a spokesperson said: "Some of our pundits person said that they don't privation to look connected the programme portion we question to resoluteness the concern with Gary.

"We recognize their presumption and we person decided that the programme volition absorption connected lucifer enactment without workplace presumption oregon punditry."

Later, MOTD commentators Steve Wilson, Conor McNamara, Robyn Cowen and Steven Wyeth shared a associated connection online saying they "do not consciousness it would beryllium due to instrumentality portion successful the programme" connected Saturday.

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