Quote Originally Posted by J R Hartley View Post
It’s what he didn’t say rather than what he did say. He wouldn’t condemn the violence the week before at the BLM marches, in fact he was in denial there was even a social distancing issue, but was straight out of the blocks as he usually is for last weekends disgraceful scenes, hence Karl Henry pulling him up on it.
So, it's just more whataboutism really isn't it? The fact that Lineker, apparently, didn't criticise the violence by BLM sympathisers a week earlier makes what he said this weekend unacceptable . If Lineker supported the violence seen by a minority of BLM demonstrators, I'd say that was wrong, but no more wrong than someone who needed little prompting to condemn them last weekend, but comes across as reluctant to do the same to the far right and football lads lot this weekend.