I don’t know what Jermaine Jenas (known as ‘JJ’ to his mates, other than his former teammates who call him ‘PP’, ‘LZ’ or ‘TB’ because footballers generally can’t spell or read properly) has done to offend the BBC but they have really sprung into action against him.

It took about 10 years for the corporation to act against serial child abuser Jimmy Savile. After 5 years of suspicions, getting more and more convincing, the Beeb did the only thing it could do in the circumstances. They gave him his own show. Jim’ll Fix It. So that he could spend more time with even more kids, particularly the underprivileged or disabled types, which he preferred. It was like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse. Or putting an Abu Dhabi oil billionaire in charge of Premiership football club.

With Huw Edwards it only took about a year from when they had some evidence of his ‘predilections’ to suspending him. And another 9 months to stop paying him. Well, it’s not their money, is it? ITS FUCKING OURS!!!! But Huw was everyone’s favourite, lovely, Welsh newscaster, and making inappropriate advances to an 18 year old boy is legal, but within a workplace environment…

Jermaine played for Spurs. In theory. ‘Jermaine was on Spurs injury list’ is possibly more accurate. He’d come from Newcastle United where he scored a few outstanding goals and… well, looked pretty. So we bought him because when Ginola left we were pretty much down to just plain ‘ugly’. Which is fine when it wins you trophies, but it didn’t. So we employed the ‘pretty boy’ to brighten the team sheet. He retired quite young, became a pundit, not because he’s knowledgable or eloquent, because you’re not allowed either of those in the world of punditry, but because he looks pretty.

And then, last week, he’s sacked. Boom! No warning, no story about to appear in the Sun showing the text message photos of his nob, nothing. Just: gone.

I don’t know if he was sending pics of his genitals, but whatever he sent to the two women recipients, safe to say, it was nothing they wanted. The worked with him. And thus he was in a position of power. He was ‘the talent’. Although which talent, no-one’s ever been able to ascertain, other than looking pretty. So they sacked him. Obviously in the aftermath of the Huw Edwards ‘scandal’ they just couldn’t be seen to be dragging their feet again.

The Beeb had to be seen to be proactive. They couldn’t again just react to stories in every paper exposing abuse by their employees, inappropriate behaviour, just because they’re left with no choice. They had to act. Before the tabloids. And they did.

So why is Lineker still there?

Happy Sunday

A xxxx