Gary Lineker has been accused of mocking football fans after a cheeky comment on Saturday evening's Match of the Day.The weekly highlights show opened up with the results from last week as Lineker joked: "Just in case you couldn’t find the scores anywhere else last week." However, some football fans saw it as a slap in the face after the BBC axed their classified football results.One fan tweeted: "What was that b******* at the start of MOTD?
Complete arrogance and misses the point about the classified football results!" While another added: "Not impressed with their snide p***-taking re results.
Read the room eh?"READ MORE: Gary Lineker sparks health fears as he says he can 'hardly remember any' of his goalsThe BBC scrapped their classified football results on Radio 5 Live ahead of the new campaign.The classified service was quietly dropped to make room for extra live coverage of Premier League matches kicking off at 5.30pm.
It has now been confirmed that the full results service will be available only on the BBC Sport website and during Final Score on BBC One.The BBC said: “We’ve received some complaints from those unhappy that the classified football results will no longer be read out on Saturdays within the Sports Report programme on Radio 5 Live. What did you think of Gary Lineker's comments?
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