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Mark Lawrenson has said he thinks his departure from the BBC was down to him being '65 and a white male'.
The former Liverpool defender had spent three decades with the corpoation, including 25 years with Football Focus, before being told of the show's format changes in March.
Lawrenson told The Sunday Times: 'The Beeb are probably the worst at giving you bad news. It was just, "We are going on the road next season with Focus. We don’t think it is really something for you."
'I haven’t watched the programme since to see if they have gone on the road. They forget you are an ex-footballer and could get subbed or dropped or transferred. Somebody could say to me, "I’m sorry, it’s not good news.’ And I would say, "OK, just tell me what it is."
'I just wish they had said to me at the start of my contract last year, ‘You’ve had a great run, thanks very much and you are not working next season."'
Lawrenson revealed he should have thought about leaving the show when host Dan Walker left his hosting duties after 12 years in 2021.
While initially vexed with Walker's replacement, ex-England and Arsenal player Alex Scott, he came around to supporting
