'This really winds me up.' After Gary Lineker was asked to step back from presenting Match of the Day,Lewis Goodall disagrees with this texter's narrative that 'footballers should just stay in their lane', adding there is 'so much classism in that'.

@lewis_goodall It’s far more annoying and irksome when politicians talk about football

@lewis_goodall 100% spot on…this totally boils down to class. Gary has a working class background and represents a working class sport, he is not ‘allowed’ to deviate from his area like, say, a public school educated, Oxbridge graduate satirist on Have I Got News For You can.

@lewis_goodall What a load of rubbish. Footballers live in the UK too and also want to stop it falling to fascists. Unlike the rest of us however, Lineker had a big platform to do something about it and well done to him. The fascists are the issue not the Footballer

@lewis_goodall It winds me up. It’s akin to saying to every person in country that you’re only entitled@to talk about anything that relates to the job you do. Accountants don’t talk about football just talk numbers, pilots just planes, bin men, rubbish is all you can discuss

@lewis_goodall Spot on Lewis! If footballers shouldn't comment on politics, that means none of us should! Then where do we stand?! Voices such as Gary Lineker, Carol Vorderman and real journalists are now more important than ever! Thank you for all that you do!

@lewis_goodall Politics needs scrutiny… impartiality from our publicly funded broadcaster doesn’t achieve this. They should aim for editorial balance not impartiality… the difficulty is balancing a Government that lurches so far right. The 1930s Germany comment is appropriate in my view.

@lewis_goodall “There is a long-established precedent in the BBC that is that if you’re an entertainment presenter or you’re a football presenter, then you are not bound by those same [impartiality] rules [as news/current affairs staff]” Greg Dyke BBC Director General 2000-2004

@lewis_goodall Perhaps address real issues of bias.

@lewis_goodall Maybe Right Said Fred should stick to music. Urm, wait…what?! Maybe not.

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