Gary Lineker

As the presenter of Match of the Day, Lineker is renowned for his footballing insight and sharp dressing. He talks about wardrobe choices, being tempted to wear white trousers

The liberal sprinkling of the word ‘Nazi’ in everyday use perhaps signals that modern society accepts nazism as the nadir of human behaviour

Judge rules that the presenter worked for the BBC and the BT Sport as a freelancer and not an employee

Alex Scott will now host Sunday afternoon’s quarter-final between Brighton and Grimsby Town

Gary Lineker’s spat with the BBC highlights the insidious relationship between the platform and news organisations

In the News podcast with Aideen Finnegan

All journalists whose work is published on public service broadcasting are required to take account of the need to be seen to be impartial

You can cancel people who make stupid comments on social media. Or you can take a measured approach

‘As I understand it, this was the very solution that was offered to the BBC on Friday, and they turned it down’

Broadcaster to review social media guidance for journalists and presenters as Match of the Day presenter returns

The frenzy over the presenters tweets is the culmination of years of Conservative Party pressure on the BBC

Laura Slattery: In its effort not to take sides, the institution wound up taking the side of the British government and sparking a mutiny

Hugo Keenan’s ‘implacable excellence’; Clive Woodward’s bizarre comments; Rhasidat Adeleke’s star performance

Saga underlines how Britain’s fake populist government has once again failed to read the (dressing) room

The former Pepsi marketeer said in his first days that he intended to restore ‘trust and confidence’ in the BBC

Match of the Day only aired for 20 minutes on Saturday night rather than its scheduled 80 minutes

By suspending the sports commentator under the guise of impartiality, the BBC has shown up its own inadequacies

Television: With no Gary Lineker, pundits or commentators, the embattled broadcaster replaces its Premier League show with an eerie highlights package

British PM defends his proposals to permanently ban asylum seekers who arrive in UK on unauthorised small boats

Sunak defends his proposals to permanently ban asylum seekers who arrive in UK on unauthorised small boats

‘If I understand it right, it is a message, an opinion about human rights and that should be possible to say’

List of BBC presenters and pundits showing their support for Gary Lineker continues to grow

Sports pundit at centre of an impartiality row after criticising the UK government’s ‘cruel’ immigration plans

If the BBC won’t support someone so famous and beloved, what are the chances they’ll back a lowly reporter trying to hold the Tories to account?

Former Manchester United boss is currently in his third spell managing the Netherlands

The Australian cricketing legend had moved seamlessly from player to TV pundit

Callum Robinson’s booster, Newcastle if they actually won things and Super League fiasco

The biggest of honours in Sweden; A Buxton lesson in holiday planning

Striker who was Madrid’s clásico bogeyman reflects on his record ahead of storied clash

Dr Willie Stewart: ‘A quarter of a billion people participate and yet we are hearing nothing from Fifa’

Planet Business: What’s next for Sheryl Sandberg?

Pandemic saw production spending in the North plummet, annual report shows

Jordan Henderson and Harry Maguire among the goals as Harry Kane scores two

Donald Clarke: The rejection of the word by English people happened weirdly recently

England’s party pooper wants to keep a lid on things . . . good luck with that

England manager may well be haunted by memory of missed penalty in 1996 Euros

Kevin Doyle top of the punditry pops . . . Klinsmann as accurate as ever . . . Pogba off colour

Roy Keane struggles to calm down Graeme Souness ahead of the big game

The Clare-born presenter on losing his Irish accent after moving to England aged six

TV View: As Danish player lay stricken, broadcasters made some very crass decisions