Match of the Day host Gary Lineker is reportedly set to return to the show this coming weekend amid speculation he and the BBC are close to resolving their impartiality row. According to various reports there is "growing confidence" he will be back.
It follows a weekend which saw the broadcaster's sports coverage suffer severe disruption as a host of presenters and celebrities came out in support of the former England footballer. The 62-year-old did not appear on the football highlights programme after he was told to stand down from the role when he compared language used to launch a new Government asylum seeker policy with 1930s Germany in a tweet.
He said: "There is no huge influx. We take far fewer refugees than other major European countries. This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s".
