Mark Lawrenson FINALLY Reveals Why He Was SACKED by The BBC

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[davidcowan]

He was well past his sell by date, and he basically sounded bored and phoned in his commentaries for about ten years or so.
He had a good innings and earned a good living. Shame his shocking lack of self awareness prevented him from moving on gracefully.

[robandrew]

I'm 65 and I'm white. He got that right.

[bobsingeton]

So, not sacked then... just a case of not having his contract renewed. Something the BBC should have done many years ago.

[PST]

A slight difference between coming to an end of a contract and it not being renewed, and being 'sacked'.

[shellsbignumber]

My suspicion is Mark was too white and too male.

[petersmith]

He was on an annual contract. It expired and didn’t get renewed. Happens to thousands of us every year.

[jameslowe]

I really can't see Labour changing the way the BBC is funded.

[JASON-rqgl]

Just to clarify as some people have already said you are only required to have a TV licence by Law if you watch live TV on any channel as its been broadcast including BBC iplayer.

If you watch TV on demand for example on Netflix, Amazon or any other streaming service that you basically go through a library of programs to watch and gives you the ability to choose a time to play a program at your convenience then you do not require a TV licence by Law.

Also you are not legally required by Law to respond to any letters from TV licencing, it is your choice to reply out of courtesy.

If anyone from TV licencing pays you a visit at your door then you are not obligated to speak to them or answer their questions, it is your choice.

You can simply say No thank you I'm not interested and shut the door, or not answer at all.

[alanmayes]

I never used to miss Football Focus or Match of the Day, I have not watched either for 15 years or intend to ever again.

[martinmcfarlane]

Football Focus is no longer about football, last week they had a feature about a Non Binary football team

[kennyw]

To be fair not just bbc hated him think most country did

[marcusmoore]

1 day we as a people will look back and say "what have we allowed?" and it will be too late - so sad

[Mid-Knife-Crisis]

We can be thankful to all our America friends for all of this absolute lunacy!

[davidjames]

I've no idea why Mark Lawrenson would think that a Labour government would change the funding model of the BBC.

[myaphextwin]

I'm not a fan of Lawrenson but he has a better understanding of football than most pundits we suffer now. Positive discrimination was challenged a few years ago but now it's accepted. There needs to be a balance of fairness but they've hit a walnut with a massive sledgehammer

[nealgarner]

He said has it his emperors clothes society were everybody knows there something wrong no one dare say it well said mark Lawrenson

[MLSNYC]

He was a contracted employee that wasn't renewed. He can tell himself that it was to do with him being an old white man, but it was far more to do with him being a boring personality.

Go back and listen to him at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. He was a misery on commentary and consistently made passive aggressive remarks to his co-commentator.

He had stopped offering insight on the game and instead sounded exasperated by every mistake. People don't want to listen to that. Sure, they could have been more forthright in telling him he was being released, but given how he comes across here I can't imagine he was well liked.

[TheOverlordOfProcrastination]

‘65 and white.’
That sums the bbc up.
One of the many reasons I cancelled my licence.

[nicholasbradley-zqfw]

The sacking of Steve Wright was full on disgusting.
One of the greatest.

[XhoowieX]

Everybody for the last 15 years "Lawrenson is annoying, he's boring, why is he there still?"

Lawrenson doesn't get his contract renewed.

"Woke! Woke snowflakes are ruining the BBC!"

The Internet has melted people's brains.