Match of the Day host Gary Lineker sticks by his tweet following the row with BBC bosses that saw him stripped from screens.
The former Barcelona and Everton striker gave his response to the government’s new asylum policy with a series of tweets, one of which read, "Good heavens, this is beyond awful." He later shared, "This is just an immeasurably cruel policy". He has now stuck by those comments in an interview with Men's Health UK.
He then continued his criticism by claiming the government used language that was "not dissimilar to that used by Germany in 1930s". Those tweets sparked a huge row with his employers the BBC, with many claiming that Lineker had gone against the channel’s impartiality rules.
