MOTD should show fewer highlights - BBC chairman

[Hammer I am]

Match of the Day: BBC chairman says show should include fewer highlights - BBC Sport
"Shah told The Times that many fans had watched Premier League goals and action before Match of the Day is broadcast.Shah said the show "should not be built around highlights".He added: "It should be built around analysis and examination of the match to give viewers a deeper insight."

yet more proof that these people are incompetent, most people have not watched the action of every game, and does this person know about the issue of watching the 3pm ones? I'd imagine the vast majority want longer highlights and less chat 

[Ladysmith]

can't stand the jug eared communist cսnt, just looking at him makes me want to smash up the telly



 

You mean our Gary who saved us multiple times in big international games?

He's talking about his politics and his smug attitude on Match of the Day not his football skills, you fucking idiot.

Another keyboard warrior!

[Far Cough UKunt]

can't stand the jug eared communist cսnt, just looking at him makes me want to smash up the telly


 

You mean our Gary who saved us multiple times in big international games?

He's talking about his politics and his smug attitude on Match of the Day not his football skills, you fucking idiot.

[Ladysmith]

can't stand the jug eared communist cսnt, just looking at him makes me want to smash up the telly

 

You mean our Gary who saved us multiple times in big international games?

[Takashi Miike]

can't stand the jug eared communist cսnt, just looking at him makes me want to smash up the telly
 

[Far Cough UKunt]

The only pundits worth listening to were Jimmy Hill with Brian Moore commentating and Saint and Greavsie, the rest can fuck right off.

[nerd2]

Most watch on catch up ,Sunday or save it , you can then ffwd the punditry, it's good tele then . Loads watch like that now.  Less highlights is how it was and ain't that how all ols gits( like me ) want it like the old days when everything was better.

[dm]

Is Match of the Day actually still relevant?  
who is it actually aimed at?  
Under 17yos who haven’t got into the habit of being out in Saturday night yet?
old farts like us who have largely lost interest on being out on Saturday evenings?
Piss heads who are happy to slump in front of some easy viewing before bed?
 

[Pamplemousse]

To be fair Kabaddi is a good laugh. Absolutely mental sport. Remember it on Channel 4 back in the 80s or 90s. Sat or Sun mornings?

Kabaddi is a great game and is the most popular sport on the planet in terms of participant numbers (seeing as how it is mainly played in the most populated countries).

The days of hairy blokes in nappies playing on the dirt are long gone,with the famous battles between Punjab Pirates and Air India, and the Bengal Tigers always finishing third despite throwing money at it. Now it's a very professional outfit, played in arenas by sportspeople in bespoke kits like badminton kits.

Even the women players shave their beards off now.

There was a big scandal a few years back where the world's top player was murdered in what appeared to be a betting scandal.

 

Lucas Poppadom?

[Manuel]

I know this site is at deaths door with only about a dozen posters left, but why is such a boring and pointless thread like this still at the top?? Kind of sums up WHO today.

[Sir Alf]

All part of why us old gits hate so many aspectd of the modern game.  Soon MOTD will not even pretend to favour the rich 5 or so clubs and just show their matches or spend the hour fawning over them.  Just like Sky they are all feeding off the “gravy train” driven by TV subscriptions ( esp foreign ) and commercial revenues and interest from abroad.  The pundits, experts etc are the “bottom feeders”. The current plight of  the Mancs and Chelsea is very annoying and even a slight worry should it continue. Arsenal’s return to the top table a compensation to keep up tue foreign fan interest. 

The teams like United were the first to win the European cup, then Liverpool and similarly dominated the league for a decade after Pool, then we had Chelsea, Arsenal regularly winning things and finally City. They all did this before FFP, PSR etc and built a nice gap in revenue supported by the foreign commercial income and sponsorships.  In business its called “first mover advantage” IIRC ? and the aim is to keep it in place and actually increase the gap to create a “barrier to entry” for everyone else. PSR is helping with that as a rich owners can no longer gatecrash by just throwing money and buying the best players and paying exhorbitant wages. The Mancs current problems caused in part by the thinking and now stuck with a lot of overvalued, overpaid / costly player assets.

That first mover advantage also translated to locking in or building the foreign fan base which is another part of the “cartel” and barrier. Would mean the other 14 teams having to win trophies and titles regularly to build their own fan base or “convert” the existing ones. 

Im hoping PSR will keep Mancs, Chelsea struggling or consign others from Pool, City etc to the same situation if they get their recruitment wrong. The hope is every season 2 or 3 clubs using Brighton,  Bournemouth, Villa, Forest and Fulham of buying well, young and selling well to create strong squads that can eventually topple the rich 5 and their super league. Ambitions.

Football is just a set of brands largely now anyway.  Rule changes imho are needed to ensure representation in squads of say 30% home grown development players that have been at the club from at least the age of 14.

MOTD will hopefully die and deservedly so if they stop showing highlights of all games. Greedy fvckers!!

** reaches for mirtazapine *** 

 

[dm]

What a prat. Most people watch MOTD at the end of their Saturday as its just a nice positive, easy watch before bed. Most people watch MOTD just to see their team win again.... If they have lost, they don't watch it. I don't. And I only ever watch analysis of West Ham and maybe perhaps if there has been a massive result somewhere like say Ipswich beating Liverpool for example. 

Why the fuck do I want to watch Murphy and Shearer hand shandying over Liverpool's press or Chelsea's midfielders?

Absolutely spot on. 25+ years ago a lot of people watched MOTD not knowing the results, in some cases people actively avoided them. But with the advent of the smart phone, virtually everybody knows the results.  It is a little sad to see them pretending that the viewers don’t know what the results were.  
  And Shearer is an arrogant tosser.  He has never come across as a pleasant bloke. 

[Gank]

To be fair Kabaddi is a good laugh. Absolutely mental sport. Remember it on Channel 4 back in the 80s or 90s. Sat or Sun mornings?

Kabaddi is a great game and is the most popular sport on the planet in terms of participant numbers (seeing as how it is mainly played in the most populated countries).

The days of hairy blokes in nappies playing on the dirt are long gone,with the famous battles between Punjab Pirates and Air India, and the Bengal Tigers always finishing third despite throwing money at it. Now it's a very professional outfit, played in arenas by sportspeople in bespoke kits like badminton kits.

Even the women players shave their beards off now.

There was a big scandal a few years back where the world's top player was murdered in what appeared to be a betting scandal.

[El Scorchio]

To be fair Kabaddi is a good laugh. Absolutely mental sport. Remember it on Channel 4 back in the 80s or 90s. Sat or Sun mornings?

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

"Although the BBC is politically independent, its chairperson is appointed by the government."

'nuff said mate.
Box ticking exercise.
cսnt probably thinks Kabaddi is a more worthy sport to watch.

 

 

 

 

Live on the Beeb.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/c201qvny57jt#player

 

[Pub Bigot]

The highlights are uploaded to YouTube shortly after games, meaning I don’t have to listen to Gary Lineker talk. 

What does he do that makes him worth over a million a year? And it can’t be because he’s likeable. Even his own brother thinks he’s a cսnt, which is high praise coming from a prize cսnt. 

[Mike Oxsaw]

The BBC is one of the many major media outlets who clearly don't understand the difference between "best" and "only".

[Helmut Shown]

I thought they wanted rid of the highlights so they could spend more time worshipping Liverpool.

[Sir Alf]

We are helping big time with their aim of having freer highlights. Clearly Potter got the BBC memo

[Far Cough UKunt]

Yeah that's exactly what I want, more Lineker smugness, more Geordie bellendery and much more Ian Wright Wrong Wrong.

Out of fucking touch cunts.

[Tyyyson]

I couldn’t give. Shit about their inane waffle

[Alwaysaniron]

What a prat. Most people watch MOTD at the end of their Saturday as its just a nice positive, easy watch before bed. Most people watch MOTD just to see their team win again.... If they have lost, they don't watch it. I don't. And I only ever watch analysis of West Ham and maybe perhaps if there has been a massive result somewhere like say Ipswich beating Liverpool for example. 

Why the fuck do I want to watch Murphy and Shearer hand shandying over Liverpool's press or Chelsea's midfielders?

I concur with everything above.  It's what I am sure we all do.  I see enough of us losing when I'm watching live.....

[Alwaysaniron]

(Perceived) Big 6 of the Day as it will now be known in the future.

The more the media get involved and the more money gets sloshed about the greater need I seem to have to just say "fuck it" and start watchiing local league football.

[zebthecat]

This is such a stupid thing to say.
The entire point of Match of the Day is to show highlights of matches for people who don't pay for live coverage. Proper public service broadcasting.
I would happily live without all of the "analysis" given who normally does it. The radio people are much better.
Him and Tim Davie are a disgrace.

[Russ of the BML]

What a prat. Most people watch MOTD at the end of their Saturday as its just a nice positive, easy watch before bed. Most people watch MOTD just to see their team win again.... If they have lost, they don't watch it. I don't. And I only ever watch analysis of West Ham and maybe perhaps if there has been a massive result somewhere like say Ipswich beating Liverpool for example. 

Why the fuck do I want to watch Murphy and Shearer hand shandying over Liverpool's press or Chelsea's midfielders?

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

I hate the BBC, want it the fuck gone, but why is another foreigner running it? Why?

"Although the BBC is politically independent, its chairperson is appointed by the government."

'nuff said mate.
Box ticking exercise.
cսnt probably thinks Kabaddi is a more worthy sport to watch.