The world’s most famous football programme, Match of the Day, is set to take up a very different format this weekend after a public fallout between lead presenter Gary Lineker and the BBC prompted a mass boycott from fellow hosts, pundits and commentators.
The corporation had decided to remove the TV host - who attended Leicester's home loss to Chelsea - from Saturday night’s episode after he refused to apologise for a tweet he had posted regarding a new government immigration policy, with the BBC taking the view that he had broken its impartiality standards.
In response, scheduled pundits Alan Shearer and Ian Wright said they would not be participating in the show, sparking other potential replacements and regulars to do the same.
