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Jurgen Klopp pulled no punches in describing Gary Lineker’s dispute with the BBC as he described it as ‘a s***storm’.
The Liverpool boss was quizzed on the situation following their 1-0 defeat at Bournemouth – a result that would have been near the top of the running order on Saturday’s Match Of The Day.
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Lineker is entitled to his opinion, says Klopp
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The Liverpool boss was speaking after their 1-0 defeat to Bournemouth
Unfortunately for viewers of the show, Lineker was not on MOTD after it was announced he was to take a step back from his presenting role due to comments made about the UK government’s new asylum policy.
With presenters, pundits, commentators, players and managers also declaring their intention not to partake on the BBC’s Saturday schedule as a sign of solidarity, it left them with little choice but to make drastic changes to the programme, which was just 20 minutes long.
And Klopp believes that the BBC have made the wrong decision over Lineker as he insisted the 62-year-old is entitled to his freedom of speech.
Speaking after the 1-0 loss, Klopp said: “How I understand it, I cannot see any reason why you would ask somebody to step back for saying that. I can’t.
“I’m not sure if that’s a language issue or not, but I can find it. But that’s the world we are living in.
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“Everybody is so concerned about doing the things in the right manner, saying the right stuff to everybody.
“If you don’t do that, then you create a s***storm – which we didn’t have when we were young. It’s a really difficult world to live in.
“But if I understand it right, this is about a message, an opinion, about human rights and that should be possible to say.
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Klopp cannot understand the BBC’s decision over Lineker
“What I don’t understand is why everybody goes on Twitter and says something.
“If somebody asks you about your opinion, then you can say your opinion, but I don’t understand the social media part of it.
“But I’m probably too old for that. So apart from that, no. If I got it right, there’s no reason [to punish Lineker], for me.”
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