BBC workers at Euro 2024 ‘really feel sad, uncomfortable and embarrassed by Gary Lineker’s criticism of Gareth Southgate – and refusal to again down’ as questions are raised over ingesting wine on £1.35m-a-year star’s podcast

BBC workers are reportedly sad about Gary Lineker’s criticism of England supervisor Gareth Southgate on his podcast throughout Euro 2024.

Lineker generated headlines earlier in Euro 2024 after branding England’s efficiency of their 1-1 draw in opposition to Denmark as being ‘s***’.

The Three Lions have since booked their place within the Euro 2024 closing, with Southgate’s facet dealing with Spain on Sunday within the Berlin showpiece. 

The BBC star, who earns £1.35m-a-year from the company, made the feedback on his ‘The Relaxation is Soccer’ podcast, which he hosts and is owned by Goalhanger, his manufacturing firm.  

Plenty of England’s star gamers – together with the likes of Harry Kane and Declan Rice – fired again at Lineker together with his feedback dominating the build-up to their closing group stage match.

In accordance with The Telegraph, BBC workers at Euro 2024 felt ‘sad, uncomfortable and embarrassed’ by Lineker’s direct criticism of Southgate on his podcast.

‘You may consider all kinds of phrases and expletives for those who like, but it surely was s***,’ Lineker stated after the Denmark draw.

‘Was it tactically inept? They’re just a bit bit misplaced tactically. And that comes from the supervisor, I am afraid. It actually does. He is bought to get England enjoying greater up the pitch, as a unit. As a result of in the mean time they are not a unit. Are they not coached to play that?

‘He is a tremendous chief, he is a fantastic communicator, he is remodeled the general public’s opinion of the nationwide group and the gamers. However, tactically, the primary sport, and we have seen it in different tournaments as properly.

‘England sort of begin OK after which get a objective after which the whole lot adjustments, and it is nearly just like the sort of ways of, get a lead, dangle onto it. And the sport’s moved on from that.’

The Telegraph reported that BBC workers have been left ’embarrassment’ after Lineker and pundit Micah Richards seen with glasses of purple wine as they dissected the Denmark sport on the podcast.  

Lineker later poked enjoyable on the furore over his feedback through the closing spherical of group stage matches, stating ‘If Albania fail to win tonight, England are formally via to the final 16. 

‘As a result of even when they lose tomorrow they may undergo as top-of-the-line third-placed groups. I want folks would cease being so vital of them.’

Southgate had insisted that he was ‘oblivious’ to Lineker’s remarks however admitted that he had ‘the one phrase’ that the BBC pundit uttered in his criticisms.

Lineker later claimed that journalists have been ‘not being courageous sufficient to ask their very own questions’ on the event, after England captain Kane claimed pundits have been utilizing detrimental feedback to ‘promote their very own channels’ as a result of they ‘need probably the most views’.

The episode the place the pundits defend themselves in opposition to Kane’s accusations acquired over 540,000 views on YouTube, making it the fourth most seen present on their channel.

Lineker’s son, Harry, who produces the soccer podcast, revealed final month that the present’s downloads had risen by 62 per cent because the begin of the competitors, whereas views on YouTube are up 83 per cent.

Lineker has simply 12 months remaining on his £1.35m-a-year deal on the BBC.

The presenter has reportedly been snubbed from presenting the BBC’s new Champions League highlights programme subsequent season, bringing into query his future on Match of the Day.

The BBC signed a groundbreaking three-year deal again in 2022 to broadcast highlights of Europe’s elite membership competitors from the beginning of the 2024-25 marketing campaign, with 16 reveals deliberate on Wednesday evenings from September to Could.

Gabby Logan has reportedly been picked as an alternative been picked by BBC bosses.

There was already an absence of readability over whether or not his contract can be prolonged after his suspension from Match of the Day final yr, which led to a number of of his fellow pundits placing in solidarity, one thing that embarrassed main BBC figures.

Lineker was reprimanded by the BBC in March 2023 after posting on social media that the Conservative authorities’s language round asylum coverage was ‘not dissimilar to that utilized by Germany within the 30s’.

These feedback induced vital controversy and resulted within the BBC taking him off Match of the Day that week, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright amongst these to strike in protest on the determination.