Hermit Road 11:27 Sat Mar 11
MOTD
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I haven’t watched it for years mainly down to the inane chat between matches where they start with their chosen stories and cherry pick clips to make themselves right. There’s also a lazy, glum smugness about much of the talk that means despite being paid a fortune to talk about football, they only really bother to know a few details about the biggest clubs.
Looks like there will be purely football clips this weekend without any pundits. Politics aside, that’s what they should have been doing anyway. More football, less paying people millions to talk bollocks.
I watch highlights of other sports and that seems to be the model there anyway.
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COOL HAND LUKE
11:35 Sat Mar 11
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Hermit Road 11.27
Agreed - wasn't it a core tenet of the pirate radio stations back in the day i.e. "More music, every hour" and so on...
Fact is, if you showed no actual football, and just had an hour of the talking heads, absolutely nobody would watch it, but if you take out the chat and show an extra five or ten minutes of each game, surely the viewing figures would shoot up? As with radio, folks just want the product, not the gas-bagging. Dangerous game Leftiker and Co are playing; they are grossly overpaid and are actually surplus to requirements.
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White Pony
11:39 Sat Mar 11
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I may actually start watching this on a Saturday night again if they get rid of presenters and pundits entirely. Whenever I do rarely watch it, it’s always on catch up and I forward through the chat.
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Briano
12:03 Sat Mar 11
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Alex Scott has ruled herself out in solidarity
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Westham67
12:08 Sat Mar 11
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I will be taking a knee tonight whist watching
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COOL HAND LUKE
12:10 Sat Mar 11
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If I were the BBC I'd let these buggers stand down and whistle. MOTD is about the football, not the chat - it's the sort of content where you barely need an anchor; you can segue quite readily from one game to the next with the absolute minimum of voice-over in between.
Nobody will convince me that something this simple requires guys on £1.3M and £540K pa presiding over it.
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Mad Dog
12:25 Sat Mar 11
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West ham have decided to show solidarity with Gary Lineker and not appear on match of the day next season
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Far Cough
12:26 Sat Mar 11
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"Nobody will convince me that something this simple requires guys on £1.3M and £540K pa presiding over it."
Exactly and the next time they claim fucking poverty and put the licence fee up, they'd do well to remember that.
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JayeMPee
12:29 Sat Mar 11
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Great news, wish it was permanent.Sick and tired of listening to bigots mouthing off about themselves and their chums. MOTD should be about football and ALL of the premiership teams, what on earth happened to the likes of John Motson (RIP)? As it is for a match we have 4 or 5 in the studio, 1 interviewing the managers and 2 commentating and then on a really bad day its MOTD, Ridiculous!!!
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stewey
12:32 Sat Mar 11
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Fuck the presenters off if they’re not prepared to do the job they’re handsomely paid to do.
Just show the highlights.
If you give in to lineker laniker lineaker it will make the cunt think he’s invincible.
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icwhs
12:38 Sat Mar 11
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You don’t need an anchor on a £1.3 million annual salary.
If said anchor hasn’t got the brains to take the money and run, whilst shutting up about his political views.. said anchor is a cahnt.
Basically, I’m more concerned about the price of eggs in Honduras than said anchors political views.
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12:43 Sat Mar 11
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The change in the way Football was shown and presented was initiated by Murdoch/Sky. From that day onwards to what it has morphed into now the BBC has always been on the coat tails of the other broadcasters.
It beggars belief that some people have only just woken up to how banal and unnecessary all the talking that surrounds a game on tv is.
In terms of unintended consequences a football highlights programme that is packed with play action and contains only real time commentary could be an enormous hit.
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ted fenton
12:53 Sat Mar 11
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Social media has a lot answer to answer for !!!
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Chairman Alf
1:02 Sat Mar 11
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Brian Cough used to complain to Jimmy Hill about all the chit-chat and wanted more football to be shown.
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Mike Oxsaw
1:02 Sat Mar 11
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You take a contract with an organisation, you agree to abide by their values - such a clause has been written into every contract I had, dating back to joining the GPO and signing the Official Secrets Act.
If you can't/won't respect those values then you are technically in breach of contract and set yourself up for disciplinary action, which may include dismissal.
Again - he's the face of the BBC's flagship sports product; he is associated with the BBC even when selling crisps, whether you, he or anybody else likes it. The BBC, by proxy, endorse Walkers Crisps. That's the way the wind blows round these parts, partner.
He can air his political views or work for the impartial BBC and keep his gob shut. His choice.
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southwoodford
1:07 Sat Mar 11
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I only watch MOTD infrequently, mainly because Gary and his intrusive 'Bloke Club' bores me to tears. The idea of a show running back to back highlights with little or no commentary is exactly the kind of refresh this stale format needs.
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claypole
1:15 Sat Mar 11
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I will probably watch tonight and i hope others who dont normally stick it on and boost viewing figures. It might show the format that people want to watch
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Pub Bigot
1:18 Sat Mar 11
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Highlights of games are uploaded to YouTube about half an hour after the games. There's absolutely no reason to watch MotD.
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madeeasy
1:19 Sat Mar 11
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COOL HAND LUKE 12:10 Sat Mar 11
This
Sack the lot of them and get people in that want to talk and push football not a political spectrum. For the leftie woke bbc to say someone has gone too far, says a lot.
I hope the viewing figures go up for the next couple of weeks, if he is off air that long, and then go down when the self loving prick goes back.
A friend worked at the bbc and his PR person was max clifford, it was known how many stories max had to buy him out of due to his loasario ways. the bloke is a smug cnut.
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Willtell
1:19 Sat Mar 11
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I’ll bet the BBC regret employing 3 strikers…
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Steady
1:21 Sat Mar 11
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Players have come out and said they will lie on the ground with their ear against the turf in support of Lineker
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