All news on the topic: Match of the Day

The BBC were forced to pull several of their flagship sporting programmes on Saturday and Sunday after removing Gary Lineker from his role as Match of the Day host

Gary Lineker was reinstated after the BBC was slammed for announcing that he would no longer present Match of the Day due to his tweets

Alan Shearer was among those to snub the BBC at the weekend following the axe of Gary Lineker but the pundit has made his feelings clear following his colleague's return

Gary Lineker will return to his Match of the Day presenting duties after the BBC climbed down from suspending him following a row with Conservative party MPs

Piers Morgan supported his arch nemesis Gary Lineker after the BBC confirmed the former footballer would be returning to Match of the Day following his suspension

Laura Kuenssberg has left BBC viewers demanding she steps down after allegedly breaching impartiality rules during a conversation about Gary Lineker this weekend

Jacob-Rees Mogg said the £159-a-year charge is "passed its sell-by date and needs to go" as the BBC rejected pressure from Tory MPs to sack Gary Lineker from Match of the Day

The decision to take the Match of the Day presenter off air should only be framed as the broadcaster bending to government pressure - but when will Tories learn that taking on football will always end in defeat

Gary Lineker has been reinstated by the BBC following a chaotic weekend which saw the broadcaster in disarray, but he won't immediately return to Match of the Day

Gary Lineker's son George has paid tribute to his dad after the BBC confirmed the ex-England star would be returning to Match of the Day following his suspension

BBC Director-General Tim Davie says that he is pleased that they had reached a way forward with Gary and praises BBC Sport and BBC News for how they 'dealt with some unprecedented challenges'

Gary Lineker has been reinstated by the BBC following a weekend of chaos and his Match of the Day colleagues Alan Shearer and Ian Wright will also return to the programme

Gary Lineker stepped out to walk his dog after leaving his south west London home having just been told he will be presenting Match Of The Day this weekend following an end to the impartiality row

Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker has sparked division after he criticised the Government's new Illegal Migration Bill and questioned their use of language towards refugees.

Gary Neville has responded after the BBC issued an apology to Gary Lineker following the news that the former England striker will return to his Match of the Day position

Match of the Day host Gary Lineker was reinstated by the BBC - just three days after he was axed for questioning the government's use of language towards refugees.

Gary Lineker had to take a step back from presenting Match Of The Day in a row over impartiality but now the BBC have said sorry as he returns to TV

Mirror readers threw their weight behind Gary Lineker in their thousands after the presenter was outrageously forced off air by the BBC - their voices have been heard

Match of the Day host Gary Lineker was not involved in Saturday's broadcast, with a number of regular pundits ruling themselves out of the show in response to the news

The BBC has broken its silence over whether Gary Lineker will return to the broadcaster after it faced huge backlash over deciding the sports presenter should step back' from Match of the Day

Kai Havertz, Ben Chilwell and Mateo Kovacic all scored for Chelsea on Saturday afternoon to hand them a 3-1 Premier League victory against Leicester at the King Power

A number of pundits pulled out of Match of the Day on Saturday after Gary Lineker was told to step back from presenting duties, with the BBC airing a shortened show

BBC director general Tim Davie and chair Richard Sharp are under severe pressure after being accused of bowing to Tory pressure to ditch Match of the Day host Gary Lineker

The Mirror is arguing for Gary Lineker to be back on our screens as soon as possible - the BBC has exposed themselves for applying its own guidance inconsistently

Tory MPs are keen to talk about migrant boats the Gary Lineker row rather than how they have made a mess of the economy and the NHS, writes the Mirror's Kevin Maguire