The Match of the Day mutiny is over. According to reports, Gary Lineker is back, and apparently on his own terms, or at least terms he can live with. Football is a team game and here it was Gary’s all-stars v Tim Davie’s stragglers. In life, as in football, the stars tend to come out on top.
If there were awards for the art of turning an event into a crisis, the BBC would win every time. How many other organisations could turn a story about a government’s possibly illegal immigration policy into one about the tweets of a footballer-turned-TV pundit?
