Lineker threatens to be sacked: “It’s the worst I’ve ever seen, but I understand why they kept quiet”

Gary Lineker He was always clear and strong on sensitive issues like wars or immigration. The former English international and former FC Barcelona player, is now a collaborator of BBCspoke publicly and openly about the conflict currently raging Loopthus exposing himself to a new reprisal from the channel he represented, which could be considered engaging in politics, something forbidden.

Lineker, who more than a year ago was already isolated by the BBC for some words against the English government for its decisions on migrants, does not want to remain silent now about the horror of the death of thousands -thousands of children in the hands of The Israeli army, which started a war in Gaza as a result of the massacre of 260 young Israelis, who attended a celebration, by a Palestinian group. That was in October 2023. From then on, the offensive intensified.

Speaking to Mehdi Hasan in Zeteo, he said: “This is the worst thing I have seen in my life. I have seen so many pictures of children… you know, I have nothing to do with this game. I’m not Muslim, I’m not Jewish, I’m not Israeli, I’m not Palestinian, so I see it, I think, purely from the outside, from a neutral point of view, and I can’t think of anything worse. I’ve seen it: the constant ones picture of children losing their lives, every day… Obviously we all know what happened on October 7. But the moment you raise your voice against what they are doing there, they accuse you of being a supporter of Hamas, or that kind of thing,” he said. “There’s a lot of lobbying for people to keep quiet, so I understand why most people keep quiet, but I can’t keep quiet about what’s going on.”

We’ll see what happens with these new statements by Lineker after the first episode where he was fired from his job until some colleagues showed solidarity with him and reinstated him.