I like MOTDI think the presenters are excellent and despite the rough ride they get on here most of the pundits are pretty good and I enjoy their analysis. Even Murphy sometimes makes sense.
Quote from: chrisw1 on March 15, 2023, 01:29:28 PMI like MOTDI think the presenters are excellent and despite the rough ride they get on here most of the pundits are pretty good and I enjoy their analysis. Even Murphy sometimes makes sense.Agreed. Wouldn't go so far as excellent presenters but cliché/articulation-aside, the pundits do usually spot stuff in the analysis that most fans wouldn't.
I sponsored a FA Cup game between Hinckley and Brentford a few years back whickwas on MOTD .While I was stood next to him Jonathan Pearce watching the cup draw after the game with Mark Bright , all he kept saying to me was 'whens the buffet open' Greedy bastard
Gary Lineker thought he had a "special agreement" with the BBC's director general to tweet about refugees and immigration, his agent has said.In a piece in the New Statesman, Jon Holmes has described the crisis talks held with BBC bosses during last week's stand-off.He said he warned them that suspending Lineker could be damaging, hours before a staff walk-out began.The BBC apologised for the disruption and will review its social media rules.On last week's row, Mr Holmes said: "Gary Lineker, with whom I've worked since 1980, had tweeted about the policy, reiterating his support for refugees."Gary takes a passionate interest in refugees and immigration and, as he saw it, had a special agreement with Tim Davie, the BBC's director general, to tweet about these issues."He said social media guidelines for some BBC staff were "a bit vague", but said his client "assiduously avoids" appearing on political programmes.
Tribunal Judge John Brooks found the IR35 legislation did not apply because there were direct contracts between the presenter and both the BBC and BT Sport.The tribunal found that while Gary Lineker Media (GLM), which he set up with his then wife in 2012, was a partnership to which IR35 legislation applies, the appeal was still dismissed in full because contracts existed.The judge said: “As a matter of law, when Mr Lineker signed the 2013 BBC Contract, the 2015 BBC Contract and the BT Sport Contract for the provision of his services, he did so as principal thereby contracting directly with the BBC and BT Sport.“As such, the intermediaries legislation cannot apply – it is only applicable ‘where services are provided not under a contract directly between client and the worker’.“In this case Mr Lineker’s services were provided under direct contracts with the BBC and BT Sport.“Although such a conclusion might appear inconsistent with my conclusions that the intermediaries legislation can apply to partnerships… that is not the case.”
Time to set the dogs on him or at least Risso.
Quote from: eamonn on March 29, 2023, 12:03:21 AMTime to set the dogs on him or at least Risso. It's the First Tier Tribunal. Let's see what the Upper Tier says. The lower lot have ruled on something of a technicality, not the actual substance of his working relationship with the BBC.
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