[James2001]

After all, even if most of the public don't know about Neil's views (as I've seen someone say elsewhere as a way to try and claim showing Coast right now isn't controvesial), the media do, and many of them will be waiting to pounce on the slightest thing to attack the BBC with. Putting on a right wing conspiracy theorist in a gap actually caused by Lineker's suspension really does write its own headlines.

Either someone knows exactly what they're doing, or crisis management at the BBC is even more incompetent than we thought.