Gary Lineker is not appearing on Match Of The Day Live due to illness, it has been announced.
The sports pundit returned to presenting duties on Saturday after he was taken off air by the BBC last weekend over his comments comparing the language used to launch a new Government asylum seeker policy with 1930s Germany. However, former England player and presenter Alex Scott stepped in to host the coverage of Sunday's FA Cup quarter-final between Brighton & Hove Albion and Grimsby Town on BBC One from 1.50pm instead.
A post by BBC Sport on Twitter said: "Due to illness, we've got a line-up change... As viewers will have noticed yesterday, Gary Lineker was struggling with his voice and unfortunately it has deteriorated overnight."
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Following the announcement, Lineker wrote on Twitter: "I've been silenced... literally, by a nasty cold so, annoyingly, won't be working at @OfficialBHAFC this afternoon."
As he returned on-air on Saturday, he had told fellow England footballers-turned-pundits Alan Shearer and Micah Richards that it was "great to be here". He also posted a photo of himself at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester and told his Twitter followers: "Ah the joys of being allowed to stick to football."
Meanwhile, a refugee who lived with Lineker for 20 days while studying a law course spoke about his relationship with the 62-year-old former England striker. Rasheed Baluch, from the mountainous Balochistan region which straddles Pakistan and Iran, told the Sunday Mirror the presenter is "friendly and open-minded" and loved hearing his story and listened "attentively".
He added: "Although Gary is a star, he leads a simple life. He is never proud of his status. He is a very sympathetic, caring and human-loving man. He gave me an Oyster card which contained £100 top-up for my transport to university." Lineker responded on Twitter, writing: "Ah Rasheed, how sweet of you."
Mr Baluch was welcomed to the presenter's Surrey property through Refugees At Home, before the former lawyer went on to stay with the charity's co-founder Sara Nathan and then later found a place on his own. He also said during the interview that the backlash against Lineker was "unfair".
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