Has the BBC become a Tory tool?

Keepingthefaithsince1976 said:
Get Vincent Kompany to do it. He'll hopefully be City manager in the next five years and probably has to watch hundreds of hours of highlights for talent spotting purposes. He lives in Manchester where its filmed and he may as well get paid while he's watching/working anyway. Motd could do with a facelift. Get some new young blood in. Vincent has just done a cracking interview on the BBC iplayer.
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Ohhhh don't say that I'd have to switch on then, I'm going to miss welcoming VK back next week so I wouldn't want to miss him on MOTD. :-)

(I have primed my daughter in law to shout that I welcome him back, but she isn't allowed to tell him to get back in his technical area as I normally instruct whoever has my ticket to do to the opposition manager! Vinnie and Mr Pellegrini are the only two who would never get that. )
 
Mr Fraser said:
Great quotation. It seems to be a path we are travelling down. From what I can gather he was a nazi who saw the error of his ways. Might be wrong. Perhaps a scholar of German history can clarify
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@MrFraser I'm not a scholar of German History but I did find this:

Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller[a] (1892–1984) was a German theologian and Lutheran pastor.[1][3] He is best known for his opposition to the Nazi regime during the late 1930s and for his widely quoted 1946 poem "First they came ...". The poem exists in many versions; the one featured on the United States Holocaust Memorial reads: "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me."

Niemöller was a national conservative and initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler[4] and a self-identified antisemite,[5] but he became one of the founders of the Confessing Church, which opposed the Nazification of German Protestant churches. He opposed the Nazis' Aryan Paragraph.[6] For his opposition to the Nazis' state control of the churches, Niemöller was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps from 1938 to 1945.[7][8] He narrowly escaped execution. After his imprisonment, he expressed his deep regret about not having done enough to help victims of the Nazis.[6] He turned away from his earlier nationalistic beliefs and was one of the initiators of the Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt.[6] From the 1950s on, he was a vocal pacifist and anti-war activist, and vice-chair of War Resisters' International from 1966 to 1972.[9] He met with Ho Chi Minh during the Vietnam War and was a committed campaigner for nuclear disarmament.[10]
 
SJT said:
At least he didn’t go to Qatar -he’s a man of principles!...ohh, wait a minute...130 million rebate on the licence fee then;-)
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Everyone is guilty of some kind of hypocrisy.

Look at this situation on it's own. A sports presenter criticised the governments policy and the language it has used over it. That's it.

Some in Government have then put pressure on the BBC to fire that presenter because they didn't like being criticised and the BBC has gone along with it.

That on it's own is wrong, regardless if you don't like that person or things they've said and done previously.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Hoping motd will just be highlights with no studio discussion. Pretty much what Brian clough said it should be 40 years ago.
I'm sure if the BBC can't reach an agreement with ethical Gary, he'll manage to get a job with sky for more money
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Highlights without talking heads would be fine. They could just show fans from both sides discussing the games if necessary.
 


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