Gary Lineker 'received standing ovation at M&S following BBC suspension'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGary Lineker has spoken out about a standing ovation at a M&S store just days after he was suspended by the BBC earlier this year.
The Match Of The Day host, 62, was taken off air by the corporation after being caught up in a row over impartiality in March.
On social media, Lineker had compared the language used to launch a government asylum seeker policy with 1930s Germany. The BBC’s decision to suspend the former football star sparked a backlash and resulted in a number of his fellow sports pundits, including Ian Wright and Alan Shearer, boycotting Match Of The Day. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Lineker said the fallout was “all pretty sad”. “What the boys did was incredible,” he said, referring to Wright and Shearer. “It was incredibly moving.
For me, as the person they stood up for, it meant a lot. I cried in the back of the taxi.” He added: “I recall walking to M&S two or three days in, and I got a standing ovation… Well, I suppose everybody’s standing in M&S, but even so. “It was really cringe.
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