[RDJ]

The BBC, and more specifically Tim Davie, needs to very quickly think long and hard about its policies and guidelines. It's going to have to stand down from its hardline but inconsistent stance - and fast. Humiliating but is the only feasible way out - though undeniable that potentially irreparable damage has been done here.

If it doesn't then the current mutiny may well spread even further than it has done already, beyond BBC Sport. And if that happens then the position of many of the head honchos of the BBC including the DG will become completely untenable. Though of course the government won't be forcing them out will they.