Watch: How Gary Lineker’s lengthy BBC profession got here to an abrupt finish

Match of the Day host Gary Lineker has showed he’ll depart the BBC after presenting his ultimate episode of the programme on Sunday. He shared the replace in a video posted to his Instagram account.

Lineker were anticipated to proceed fronting protection of the FA Cup and World Cup.

However, a social media publish he shared about Zionism that integrated an indication of a rat, traditionally used as an antisemitic insult, attracted renewed complaint of the presenter final week.

The former England males’s soccer international-turned TV presenter has labored for the BBC for over twenty years and described his time as a “pleasure and a huge privilege”.

Lineker additionally stated that presenting Match of the Day had change into “an integral part of my life”.

Video produced by way of Ian Casey and Tom Joyner