Reflecting on his BBC ‘furore’, the presenter opens up to Sid Lowe about refugees, tweeting politics and Alan Shearer making him cry in a taxi
“We have a WhatsApp group and I’d said: ‘I’ve got a feeling they might take me off Match of the Day because I’m not shifting.’ I’d been asked to make a statement but insisted I didn’t think I had anything to apologise for. I still think that. Wrighty said: ‘If they do, there’s no way I’m doing the show.’ I know he has strong convictions but when he actually tweeted it, I was like:… Then Alan did it. I cried. I genuinely cried. I was in the back of a taxi in tears, moved. I was very emotional.
When Lineker was reinstated, the BBC backing down, the former BBC and Football Association chief Greg Dyke suggested he had won 5-0. “I didn’t feel like it was a win,” the presenter says. “We’re on the same side. I just thought the whole thing was unnecessary. I said that to Tim at the end: ‘I don’t bear grudges, we’re the same team. It’s the BBC. Let’s forget it.’ He was good like that; he did what was needed to get back on track.
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