Gary Lineker's podcast was from BBC after an anti -Semitism scandal | Football | sport

Gary Linekern's football podcast will have its last episode in the Audio -Streaming Service of the BBC this week. After a social media series that the 64-year-old shared a post about Zionism, which contained a representation of a rat, the company historically shared an anti-Semitic insult, after the company shared the player's early farewell in the pundit pundit from the station after a social media rat.

After the game of the day of this weekend, Lineker, who has published an unserved apology, will leave his presentation role at the BBC and no longer carried out before the company's reporting on the 2026 World Championship or the FA Cup next season.

His podcast, the rest is football, which is produced by his company -Goalhanger podcasts, will have his last episode of BBC Sounds this week, but the rest is the story that BBC sounds will continue. The podcast, part of Goalhanger's The Rest, is … franchise, is co-moderation of Match of the Day experts Alan Shearer and Micah Richards and Lineker and remains available on other audio platforms.

In November 2024, BBC Sounds terminated a one -year license agreement for the rest of football and the rest is history with the opportunity to extend.

At that time it is said that the Podcast episodes would remain available on the Audio platform for three years.

Lineker, the best -paid moderator of the BBC, has headed a game of the day since 1999 and announced last year that he would leave the program at the end of the season, but would still organize reporting on the World Cup and the FA Cup.

In an apology video, however, he said that Sunday will be its last show and adds that “the best for everyone involved is that I would withdraw from the BBC presentation tasks as a whole and not be enough for the FA Cup or the World Championship of the next season”.

The moderator said that he did not see the emoji of the rat, an animal that was identified with anti -Semitic tropics in which posts he shared, and added that he was “against all forms of racism”, including anti -Semitism, which I absolutely loathe “.

On Tuesday, the metropolitan police said that the armed force would assess whether an investigation is required after symptoms of the post office.

After Lineker's departure, the Vice President of the MP of the British Jews, Andrew Gilbert, asked BBC to carry out anti -Semitism for all employees.

Lineker was temporarily suspended by the BBC in March 2023 after an impartial series on comments in which he criticized the new asylum policy of the governance at the time.

He also belonged to 500 top -class characters who signed an open letter in February, in which the BBC was asked, a documentary Gaza, Gaza: How to survive a war zone, on BBC IPlayer.