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The BBC are braced for more chaos in their sport coverage today after Match of the Day was cut to just over 20 minutes amid the staggering fallout from the Gary Lineker row.
The corporation are in the grip of a crisis as their flagship football show ran on Saturday night without commentary, a studio team and any of their own post-match interviews after an unprecedented mutiny from its presenters and pundits.
Huge uncertainty surrounded the status of tonight’s Match of the Day 2 after the presenter Mark Chapman stood down from his BBC radio duties on Saturday and Jermain Defoe pulled out of his punditry role.
It followed another extraordinary day in the furore over Lineker’s anti-Tory tweets that included the Prime Minister asking for the situation to be resolved and the BBC director-general Tim Davie apologising for the mess.
BBC Sport endured a calamitous 24 hours as Lineker’s colleagues withdrew from their jobs in solidarity after he was suspended by the broadcaster.
The BBC endured a day of chaos as more stars showed solidarity with Gary Lineker
There's uncertainty over Sunday's Match of the Day 2 after Mark Chapman didn't perform radio duties on Saturday
Football Focus was replaced by Bargain Hunt on BBC ONE, the TV show Final Score was dropped, the Radio 5 Live radio programme Fighting Talk was dropped in favour of a podcast and the post-match 606 phone-in was pulled.
Chris Sutton, the Sportsmail columnist who was due
