'This doesn't impeach the BBC's impartiality'published at 08:22 Greenwich Mean Time 11 March 2023
Presenter Amol Rajan now asks Greg Dyke about Gary Lineker's responsibility to impartiality as a sports reporter.
"Basically Gary Lineker was a footballer, and a brilliant footballer," he says.
"And he has built his reputation on being a footballer. And then went into broadcasting and has done it very successfully.
"If you thought on Match of the Day tonight he had been talking about immigration policy, then I can understand the BBC’s position.
"But if he’s on talking about football that’s what he knows about, that’s what he is qualified to talk about and it doesn’t impeach, I don’t think, on the BBC’s impartiality."