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Who decreed that the next Match Of The Day host (or head of the Church for that matter) should be a woman? AMANDA PLATELL writes that it must just be the best person for the job
Received wisdom had it that the solution to these two very different crises was a fair and steady female hand on the tiller.
No sooner had Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker been forced out by the BBC, and the Archbishop of Canterbury resigned in disgrace as head of the Church of England, than the clarion call went out – replace them both with women! It is no coincidence staff at the BBC now fear Lineker’s departure could mean Match Of The Day heading for a woke graveyard – following the path of Football Focus, which seems to be geared towards ‘millennials and snowflakes’ instead of the bulk of MOTD viewers, who are mostly middle-aged, footy-mad men (and some women like me), an audience the Beeb seems hell-bent on shedding. Meanwhile, The Sun newspaper reveals that BBC staff fear Match Of The Day fans’ favourite pundits could also be red-carded to reduce the number of ex-players who are middle-aged and male.
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