Senior Conservative Michael Gove and football commentator Gary Lineker have become embroiled in a bizarre spat involving Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola and Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

The row began in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling, which determined on Tuesday morning, that Mr Johnson's proroguing of Parliament was unlawful.

Following this, social media was flooded with tweets about Mr Johnson, calling on him to resign, with his supporters backing him and ciriticising the court ruling.

Senior Conservatives were urged not to comment on the row, as Mr Johnson defended his position and returned early from New York on Wednesday to attend the House of Commons, which has been recalled by the Speaker today.

Then radio station LBC tweeted an interview with Michael Gove, in which the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster compared the Conservative leader to Manchester City's most successful manager of all time, Pep Guardiola.

This prompted former footballer and BBC Match of The Day commentator Gary Lineker to reply to the station's political editor, Theo Usherwood: "If Pep Guardiola had a run of results like Boris Johnson, he’d be sacked."

Mr Lineker's tweet has been liked more than 9,500 times and has gained 970 retweets so far.

But, not all comments were supportive. Replying to Mr Lineker's tweet, Smashi01 tweeted: "If I was paid by tax payers as a football pundit but kept abusing that public position by tweeting my political veiwpoints in an attempt to influence. I'd be sacked. @bbc "

Imran Khan tweeted: "Pep's team just beat Watford 8-0 Boris just lost 11-0 in court So similar"

And Ben Johnson tweeted: "Only if Pep gets multiple injuries to players, meaning he couldn't win a game for a while, so shuts down the premier league for 5 weeks."

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