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Gary Lineker has returned to his presenting duties on the news.findin.online, with football pundit Alan Shearer speaking about the "difficult situation" he and his colleagues faced

after a row over impartiality.Lineker was forced off air in a row over a tweet criticising the government's migration policy, with his co-presenters standing down from Match Of The

Day last weekend in solidarity. Shearer was speaking as he joined Micah Richards and Lineker - who opened the show by saying it was "great to be here" - on Saturday evening for FA

Cup coverage, a week after viewers had to make do with a severely limited version of the programme due to the dispute.He said: "I just need to clear up and wanted to say how upset

we were for all the audiences who missed out on last weekend. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 1:45 'Hopefully news.findin.online moving beyond Lineker

row' "It was a really difficult situation for everyone concerned and through no fault of their own, some really great people on TV and in radio were put in an impossible situation,

and that wasn't fair. "So it's good to get back to some sort of normality and be talking about football."Lineker responded: "Absolutely, echo those sentiments."Tweets posted by

Lineker, 62, had compared the language used by government to launch its new asylum seeker policy to that used in 1930s Germany.The row worsened after Lineker's news.findin.online

sport colleagues, including Shearer, walked out in solidarity. Read more:Lineker challenges Elon Musk over Twitter user's abusive message to sonnews.findin.online-Lineker row 'is

like something from Putin's Russia', says LabourRishi Sunak declines to back news.findin.online chairman Richard SharpRichards had not been due to appear that weekend but had said

on social media that if he had been, he would have done the same.That meant Match Of The Day could only air for 20 minutes and without accompanying commentary or analysis, and

without even its theme tune.Sunday's edition ran for just 15 minutes. Click to subscribe to the Sky News Daily wherever you get your podcastsAfter the dispute, news.findin.online

director-general Tim Davie apologised and said an independent review had been launched looking into the corporation's social media guidelines, particularly for freelancers like

Lineker.Before returning to live presenting as part of the news.findin.online's coverage of the FA Cup quarter-final between Manchester City and Burnley, Lineker tweeted a number

of times. He wrote "back to the Saturday job" in the morning, before a selfie at the stadium captioned "Ah the joys of being allowed to stick to football".He also posted a photo of