Gary Lineker’s own goal over Match of the Day salary; he’s still not worth it – Yorkshire Post Letters

HOW interesting to hear that the BBC is cutting the salaries of one or two of its expensive presenters – Gary Lineker will have a cut in his salary from around £1.75m to around £1.35m. How on earth will he manage?

As the BBC has other extremely well paid presenters earning over £1m per year, can we presume that they will also see a cut in their salaries?

This will all be very interesting news for the many pensioners who will not receive a free TV licence in the future and will have to pay the whole fee whatever their circumstances.

Perhaps the new BBC director-general can explain these actions to pensioners in Yorkshire.

From: R Marshall, Holmdene Drive, Mirfield.

BEING over 85, I received, on Wednesday, details of how to pay my TV licence at a time when most of us old codgers have only TV for company with the virus about, and today our papers show the unbelievable salaries paid to so-called disc jockeys and other highly paid so-called stars. Even Gary Lineker has accepted a cut. What about the rest?

No one seems to have done anything for us pensioners – and all our protest signatures. We certainly live in an unfair society.

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