{"id":31130,"date":"2023-03-18T22:25:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T22:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/18\/gary-lineker-says-its-great-to-be-here-on-bbc-football-return\/"},"modified":"2023-03-18T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T22:25:07","slug":"gary-lineker-says-its-great-to-be-here-on-bbc-football-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=31130","title":{"rendered":"Gary Lineker says &#8216;it&#8217;s great to be here&#8217; on BBC football return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Gary Lineker has said &#8220;it&#8217;s great to be here&#8221; as he returned to fronting BBC football coverage following his suspension last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Co-presenter Alan Shearer welcomed Lineker back and said last week &#8220;was a really difficult situation for everyone concerned&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;It&#8217;s good to get back to some sort of normality,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Lineker was pulled from air following an impartiality row over comments he made criticising the government&#8217;s new asylum policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The move sparked a backlash, with pundits and commentators, including Shearer, walking out in support of the Match of the Day host.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Lineker won&#8217;t be hosting Match of the Day on Saturday evening as he was already scheduled to present the BBC&#8217;s live coverage of Manchester City v Burnley in the FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-65003113\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Read more on this story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-65002219?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Gary Lineker has said &#8220;it&#8217;s great to be here&#8221; as he returned to fronting BBC football coverage following his suspension last week. Co-presenter Alan Shearer welcomed Lineker back and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}