He has just returned to BBC sports coverage after being taken off air in an impartiality row.
Gary Lineker will not present FA Cup quarter-final coverage as planned on Sunday after losing his voice.
He had returned to football shows on Saturday, having been taken off air following an impartiality row with the BBC.Lineker could be heard struggling with his voice on Saturday's live coverage of Manchester City v Burnley, and it deteriorated overnight.on Sunday morning, BBC Sport said there would be "a line-up change" of its presenters "due to illness".
The impartiality row followed a critical tweet Linker sent on the government's asylum policy, describing it as an "immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s".Last weekend's Match of the Day was then broadcast without presenters or commentary and was only 20 minutes long after many of Lineker's BBC Sport colleagues walked out in solidarity with him.
Lineker stressed on Twitter that he was never going to present Match of the Day this weekend, with Mark Chapman taking on that role instead. Instead, he was focusing on the FA Cup games. BBC director general Tim Davie has said he is committed to looking at how the corporation's impartiality guidelines apply to freelance staff, accepting there are "grey areas".
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