Match of the Day will run this weekend without pundits, the BBC has said.
Saturday's show will "focus on match action without studio presentation or punditry" after several pundits pulled out. It comes as Alan Shearer and Ian Wright have announced they are boycotting the programme over the BBC’s decision to stand Gary Lineker down from the show.
The broadcaster said on Friday that it had “decided” Lineker would take a break from presenting the highlights programme until an “agreed and clear position” on his use of social media had been reached. Lineker, 62, has been embroiled in a row over impartiality after comparing the language used to launch a new Government asylum policy with 1930s Germany on Twitter.
