The BBC’s football coverage was ripped up on Saturday as several more presenters and reporters withdrew in solidarity with Gary Lineker after the Match Of The Day presenter was stood down on Friday.
Neither Football Focus nor Final Score survived on BBC One, while Radio 5 Live’s radio coverage was radically altered throughout the day.
Former England internationals Alan Shearer and Ian Wright announced on Friday their boycott of this weekend’s Match Of The Day The BBC will air “limited sport programming” over the weekend and is “working hard to resolve the situation”, a spokesperson for the broadcaster said, after presenters and pundits pulled out of shows in support of Lineker. READ MORE: Football Focus and Final Score AXED with Radio 5 Live in disarray amid Gary Lineker BBC row These are the the high-profile presenters and journalists who joined them on Saturday... The 38-year-old former Arsenal and England player was due to present Football Focus but said on Saturday morning that it “just doesn’t feel right going ahead with the show today”.
Scott has presented The One Show and has worked alongside Lineker as a presenter of the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year programme.