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How much longer can the intransigent Tim Davie and BBC management hold the line that "The BBC is bigger than any one presenter?" because they've now put themselves - completely of their own making - into a situation where BBC Sport has been brought to its knees?

If Lineker was to resign in the next 24 hours, it doesn't even bear thinking about how many of his on and off screen colleagues will also resign. Not to mention the damage this could do to future sports rights.

The irony of this is the smug, smirking Tim Davie isn't even in the UK but watching the BBC fall apart from afar.