"Gary Lineker will be leaving his role as presenter when the 2024-25 is over", writes BBC in a press release.
This weekend's broadcast of "Match of the Day" will thus be Gary Lineker's at BBC. It was clear since earlier that the former national team striker would be leaving the program after this season, but the thought was that he would be part of the channel's broadcasts during the men's football World Championship.
"He will not be part of BBC's coverage of the World Championship 2026 or next season of FA Cup", writes BBC.
The 64-year-old, who has over a million Instagram followers, shared a clip from the Palestine Lobby group last week with the text "Zionism explained in under two minutes" together with a symbol depicting a rat.
The post was met with a storm of criticism.
He has caused gross offense with this video, particularly with his flagrant use of a rat emoji to illustrate Zionists, said a spokesperson for The Board of Deputies of British Jews in an interview with Daily Mail last week.
Gary Lineker then removed the post. He apologized and explained that he would never consciously share anti-Semitic messages, and that he was not aware of the symbolic meaning of the image.
