Gary Lineker’s tweets about Brexit has been getting on more than a fair share of people’s nerves since the second referendum. After a brief sojourn as a responsible Remainer, the former footballer has since become a People’s Vote fanatic, and can’t stop ranting on social media about stopping Brexit from taking place.
Now it appears that it’s not just neutral observers who are finding his many interventions annoying. His colleague at the BBC covering cricket, Jonathan Agnew, took to social media this afternoon to say how unhappy he was that Lineker was breaking the BBC’s impartiality guidelines:
https://twitter.com/Aggerscricket/status/1073255577898356736
Mr S will leave it to readers to decide whether the cricketer or footballer is talking more balls.
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