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23 favourite things people are saying about Gary Lineker right now

We wait to see whether Gary Lineker will be shown the red card by the BBC for the sin of expressing entirely valid concerns about the government’s new immigration policy.

Lineker, you’ll remember, said this on Twitter …

… prompting no end of furious indignation from the usual (and painfully familiar) suspects. Here’s the front page of the Daily Mail on Thursday (that’s not Lineker, it’s the Princess of Wales)

Support came in from unlikely sources.

And Lineker, just as you’d expect, was not for turning.

The whole thing is prompting no end of comment on Twitter today, and we’ve read them all – well quite a few of them, so you don’t have to, and here are our favourites.

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